Gauteng: DEPUTY FACTORY MANAGER

About the Role

The Deputy Factory Manager will be a senior management position responsible for delivering high-quality products at a cost-effective, safe, and reliable manner while maintaining the factory’s assets to ensure safe and reliable production. This role is crucial in achieving the desired growth, profit, and strategic business objectives of the business unit.

Key Responsibilities

• Task & responsibilities:
• Development of asset preservation strategy
• Ensure the development of the asset preservation strategy, AM objectives, and operational plans.
• Responsible for the asset register remaining useful and comparing it to the current asset condition to determine the remaining preservation strategy.
• Evaluate the previous year’s budget and expenses to determine the following maintenance budget and Asset preservation strategy.
• Implementation of asset preservation strategy:
• Ensure maintenance standards are developed for the department.
• Ensure cost-effective and safe maintenance execution.
• Translate the asset preservation strategy and AM objectives into plans, budgets, and KPIs for the maintenance function and provide the resources to execute these plans.
• Allocate the budgets and performance targets to the relevant heads of department.

• Management of Maintenance Effectiveness:
• Ensure the effective execution of preventive and reactive maintenance work on the factory’s assets to optimize their performance at minimal cost and risk.
• Evaluate the work orders for the week (status, backlog, schedule, compliance, performance) and address any problems with the relevant heads of department.
• Review and monitor the cost of maintenance (SAP & Excel maintenance sheet) and address any problems with the relevant heads of department.

• Drive quality and eliminate defects through continuous improvement:
• Drive continuous improvement in process and maintenance (KPI review meetings; defect elimination; small projects).
• Appraise all continuous improvement tasks/opportunities.
• Prioritise, plan, and resource CI projects.
• Ensures the master tile specifications are valid.

• Analyse customer complaints to gain insight into problems to eliminate inefficiencies:
• Monitor daily/weekly QC inspection from the Lab to identify areas for efficiencies.

• Recruit, Train & Develop, Lead, Manage, and direct People:
• Manage apprenticeship pipelines and their assignment.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to develop and improve team performance.
• Source and manage relationships with external and internal suppliers, OEMs, and shared resources.
• Organize workflow by assigning responsibilities and preparing schedules.

• Product development:
• Drive new product development.
• Monitor market and sales trends to ensure product range is fashionable, sustainable, and value for money.
• Investigate and research new technology and market trends.

Requirements

• Minimum Education required: NQF Level 6/7 Degree in an Engineering discipline (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Metallurgical).

Qualifications

• A qualification in financial management is advantageous.

Salary & Benefits

The salary for this position ranges from R88k to R1.3m per annum, with additional benefits including a full vehicle, profit share, medical aid contribution (Discovery), pension/provident fund, and more.

Competencies

• Behavioural Competencies:
• Self-motivated and interdependent
• Ambitious, Result Orientation
• Humility and teachable nature, willing to learn from subordinates, peers, and superiors.
• Sound Judgment and Decision Making
• Drives Performance and Holds People Accountable
• Plans, Coordinates, and executes well
• Problem Solver
• Change Leader
• Innovation
• Concern for Safety, Health, and the Environment
• Develops others (Building resources in terms of people, succession planning)
• Teamwork & Collaboration
• Technical Competencies:
• Articulate the organisational asset management risk approach.
• Promote the impact and value of asset management.
• Monitor performance and benefit realisation.
• Establish processes to determine asset criticality.
• Develop and evaluate contracts and contractors for criticality.
• Evaluate and plan asset replacement decisions based on the assets life cycle costs.

Note:

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