Cape Town City Centre: FOREMAN / PRODUCTION

Key Responsibilities: Production Planning communicate daily with the commercial manager, sales and dispatch planning team to ensure sufficient stock levels are maintained. To plan maintenance schedule. To assist with problem solving on breakdowns on the main production line. Ensure safety levels are optimal and good housekeeping in factory. Yard control to plan, organized and control the production facility to produce tiles and fittings of the correct quality and cost at the correct time Management of stock levels including critical spares and raw materials and ensure procurement procedures are adhered to. Management stock counts and audits with finance and stock/ inventory control in system. Manage stock losses and variance tracking, production breakages. Negotiate with all suppliers of both raw material and maintenance spares for the timeous supply of materials at the best possible rate Maintain good industrial relations, experience within a unionized environment, and adhere to procedures between factory staff and management through the established IR procedures. Labour productivity, efficiencies and unit production costs. SHEQ Management and compliance with ISO 14001 & ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 Develop and motivate production staff to achieve agreed objectives regarding efficiency, quality, industrial relations, health and safety Maintain, review and develop the SABS Quality Management System to establish and maintain quality standards Controls to manage shrinkage and breakages. Management security breaches. Ensure implementation of the 5 S system. Negotiations with suppliers for high value items from time to time. Stores and buying procurement of spares for the factory fall under the Foremans control. Assist with the investigation of customer complaints