Port Elizabeth: Production Manager posted by Headhunters
Posted on 2025-05-26 00:00:00
| Employer | Headhunters |
|---|---|
| Category | Engineering Management |
| Location | Eastern Cape / Port Elizabeth |
Job Summary
- At least 5 years’ experience in Injection moulding machine setting and optimization.
- At least 3 years supervisory experience.
- Previous work experience in the plastics manufacturing environment.
- Relevant qualification essential.
- Code 8 driver’s license essential.
- Must have expertise in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Preferably experienced with databases.
- Experience in the compilation of management data reporting. Filing indexing etc. must be of a high level.
Responsibilities, but not limited to:
- Co-ordinate and manage all production staff.
- Weekly meetings with the injection moulding machine setters for problem resolving, information, etc.
- Promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organisation.
- Setting production objectives and ensuring that targets are achieved (scrap %, absenteeism %, cycle time standards, etc.).
- Maintaining awareness of the business context and company profitability, including budgetary control issues.
- Ensure products are manufactured timeously and meet the customer quality and delivery requirements.
- Manage setting of all injection moulding machines and any ancillary equipment.
- Schedule production through the plant utilizing equipment to its best effect.
- Ensure all raw materials are ordered timorously.
- Ensure that production work instructions eg. Production Process Flow charts, Setting Sheets, Inspection Instructions, Job Cards, Packaging and Transport details are adequate and complied with.
- Maintain good housekeeping throughout.
- Conduct periodic formal reviews (at least annually) to verify that production activities are performed in accordance with the applicable procedures and work instructions.
- Review customer releases and formulate production plans when necessary.
- Identify process, tooling, equipment improvements, etc.
- Identify the training needs of personnel under supervision.
- Conduct / implement training when required.
- To assist Stores Controller when necessary (e.g. material staging, month end/annual stocktaking, etc.).
- Have full control when General Manager is not available.
- Collating and analysing performance data and charts against defined parameters.
- Ensuring tests and procedures are properly understood, carried out and evaluated and that product modifications comply with requirements
- Assistance in cross functional audits in line with the requirements of ISO 9001: 2015 and the internal audit plan.
- Assisting, wherever possible, to ensure that all actions, functions, and processes in the business are conducted in a value-added manner.
- Review all non-conforming products together with the quality department and ensure that effective correction action is taken to prevent recurrence.
- Bringing together staff of different disciplines and driving the group to plan, formulate and agree comprehensive quality procedures.
- Persuading reluctant staff to change their way of working to incorporate quality methods.
- Ensure that the agreed KPI’s are maintained and achieved for yourself and your subordinates.
- Monitoring performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reports where required.
- Complying, in line with the Management Policy Document, departmental procedures and practices.
- To comply with any other work-related instruction which is relayed via a superior and which is deemed to be necessary and reasonable.
Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying.
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