East London: Plant Manager (Permanent) posted by Profile Personnel

About the Role

The Plant Manager position is a permanent role that requires an experienced professional to oversee the operations of our East London plant. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mechanical engineering and significant experience in managing automotive components testing and development.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes goals, objectives, and guidelines covering all phases of plant operations and staff activities to maintain an efficient, functional, operational, and profitable plant.
• Directs, guides, and motivates immediate subordinates in attainment of projected goals and objectives to increase operational efficiency.
• Establishes and enforces procedures and controls within the plant to attain projected goals and objectives.
• Supports and promotes Company Philosophies and policies to establish support and organisation within the plant.
• Makes all decisions and approvals to exercise control over vital elements of the plant organisation and formulates such decisions based upon Company policy and other pertinent data.
• Plans and forecasts plant requirements with respect to equipment, manning, materials, and facilities to establish budgets for labour and materials and to complete the organizational structure by requesting reports from departmental subordinates and transcribing the information into the required forecasts and/or reports.
• Initiates and implements new methods and procedures in areas such as scrap control, manufacturing techniques, and workforce utilization to capitalize upon deployment of the plant facilities and to increase the efficiency of the operations by becoming familiar with related industries through meetings and seminars.
• Participates heavily in customer relations by both receiving and calling on customer representatives to promote a sound relationship and to act as liaison between them and the plant to solve problems which have or might arise.
• Recommends acquisition of capital equipment to update present equipment, to increase plant efficiency, and to compensate for design and product changes.
• Recommends changes in organization classifications, compensations, and/or fringe benefits for salaried and plant personnel to provide working conditions equivalent to or better than those in the area.
• Reviews the job performance of each subordinate so that employee training and development maybe utilized per Company policy.

Requirements

Minimum Engineering or Manufacturing/Production related degree.

Minimum 10 years experience in automotive supply industry at Management level, compulsory.

Minimum 5 years experience as Plant Manager, compulsory.

Proven experience in Leading People.

Track record in continuous improvement.

Problem solving skills.

Ability to cope with stressful situations.

Teamwork approach.

Qualifications

No formal qualifications mentioned.