Pretoria East: Production/Plant Manager posted by Network Finance
Job Description
- Ideate and implement strategic improvements for production, quality, and labour utilization throughout the facility
- Provide leadership to ensure effective utilization of plant personnel and equipment
- Collaborate with functional departments in the implementation of improvements
- Investigate and implement innovative manufacturing processes to reduce costs and improve product quality
- Apply lean manufacturing principles in designing, specifying, and validating world-class manufacturing processes that achieve organizational goals
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in operations management, business, engineering, or related field
- Min 10 years manufacturing/production experience
- Coordinate manufacturing operations for production
- Drive continuous improvement programs
- Ensure that production line schedules are in accordance with production plan
- Manage materials replenishment, quality standards, and performance metrics in support of organizational goals and objectives
- Manage cost structures for manufacturing by keeping operational expenses within budget allowance, and investigate cost-reduction measures
- Create documentation protocols and ensure that all records of operations are properly maintained and reviewed
- Planning, organizing, directing, and running optimum day-to-day operations
- Managing production, assets capacity, and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining quality standards
- Ensuring production output, product quality, and on-time shipping
- Allocating resources effectively and creating and managing budgets
- Collecting and analyzing data to find areas of waste and overtime
- Developing systems and processes that track and optimize productivity
- Staying apprised of whether standards, metrics, and performance targets are being met in order to ensure effective return on assets
- Keeping up to date with latest production management best practices
- Maintaining lean manufacturing processes
- Implementing strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives
- Monitoring operations, initiating and driving corrective actions when needed
- Overseeing work schedules to ensure coverage
- Providing a clear sense of direction and focus to team members
- Building a trusting relationship with workers and addressing employees’ issues or grievances as well as recruiting, managing, and developing plant staff
- Ensure OEE targets are met, and waste/scrap are kept within limits
- Ensure proper asset maintenance and utilizing assets to produce optimal results
- Manage, review and update process flow
- Committing to plant safety procedures and legal compliance and in house policy adherence
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