Production Manager (Manufacturing) Paarl
| Location | Paarden Island, South Africa |
| Date Posted | June 4, 2022 |
| Category |
Production / Manufacturing
|
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | ZAR |
Description
Duties & Responsibilities
Duties
• Ensure plant is running efficiently and within cost and quality parameters ensuring line utilization at planned maximum;
• Management of setters, shift leaders and their teams;
• Maintaining scrap rate within acceptable Company levels;
• Manage and contain manpower costs - ensure subordinates maintain acceptable work standards and discipline;
• Manage and support SHEQ initiatives and objectives;
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of Company work instructions and ensure compliance to these as well as Safety
Procedures;
• Manage all activities within the production process, including maintenance and the workforce;
• Create and implement organisational/production changes on an operative level;
• Maintaining Skills matrix for production staff indicating skill lever requirements for production staff;
• Investigation into root cause of product and/or quality deviations/issues and the implementation of corrective action;
• Monitor and present production performance KPI’s daily;
• Maintain necessary record and documentation as required;
• Conduct regular housekeeping inspections to ensure a high level of neatness, cleanliness and tidiness is maintained.
Desired Experience & Qualification
• Degree in Engineering/Operations Management with a minimum of 5 years’ Plastics Injection Moulding management experience.
• Excellent communication, numeracy and computer literacy skills.
• Good people management skills and management of staff.
• Identifying problems and implement preventative strategies to minimise risk.
• Being able to develop good working relationships and trust with various teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytic ability and be very detail-oriented.
• Working well with different departments and external customers and suppliers.
• Being results and deadline-driven.