Johannesburg: Operations Manager/Production

Job Description: Select and develop the right people by understanding team dynamics and developing a strong working team; create a balance of diverse skills and personalities to create effective, innovative and proactive teams with a high morale. Manage and coordinate subordinates by communicating job expectations; planning and assigning jobs; monitoring production and observing and appraising progress and improvement. Completes production by sufficient planning; scheduling and assigning staff to accomplish work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; forecasting problems, resolving problems; ensuring productions targets are met and reporting results to the Managing Director. Liaise and communicate production with other production and project managers. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Maintain quality by monitoring production; enforcing quality standards, measuring and maintaining quality standards; reducing scrap and re-work and enforcing organization quality standards. Determine and manage all resources required for production are available, ensure all equipment is ready and in good working order, calling for repairs for faulty equipment; and keeping up to date with new equipment and techniques. Uphold company values, vision, policies, processes, procedures and systems; discipline, coach and counsel employees appropriately. Maintains staff by mentoring and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities and ensuring skilled staff within the department Accepts and embraces change, innovative and receptive to new ideas; encourages others to accept, be receptive and deal with change; initiates change when necessary; solves problems and provides solutions. Maintains a safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established health and safety legislation policies and procedures and emphasizing good housekeeping practices within the department. Maintains professional and technical knowledge current by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; bench-marking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies and improves supervisory skills through internal and external training programs.