Gauteng: Senior Factory Manager

About the Role

The Senior Factory Manager is a key leadership position responsible for delivering maximum quality products in a cost-effective, safe, and reliable manner while maintaining factory assets in a cost-effective way. The successful candidate will lead, direct, and manage all aspects of the business to achieve desired growth, profit, and strategic business objectives.

Key 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 compare to current asset condition to determine the remaining preservation strategy.
• Evaluate previous years’ budget and expenses to determine the following maintenance budget and Asset preservation strategy.
• Responsible for the performance of the plant and identifying focus areas and new performance targets.
• 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 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.
• Evaluate critical plant/equipment status to determine the scheduling of planned maintenance.
• 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 the customers’ complaints to gain insight into problems to eliminate inefficiencies.
• Monitor daily/weekly QC inspection from the Lab to identify areas for efficiencies.

Requirements

• NQF Level 6/7 Degree in an Engineering discipline (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or Metallurgy, Millwright, or equivalent qualification).
• Qualification in financial management is advantageous.
• Minimum of 5 years of post-qualification engineering or process experience in FMCG, Chemical and Processing, or Mining industry.

Qualifications

No specific qualifications mentioned.