Job Summary
THE NON-NEGOTIABLE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE ARE:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Management, Operations Management, or a related technical field, AND a minimum of 5 years experience managing projects within an operational and industrial or manufacturing environment.
- Proven experience delivering capital projects, improvement initiatives, or strategic industrial programmes.
- Strong Industrial Manufacturing insight with a good understanding of plant operations and asset-intensive environments.
- Demonstrated experience working within high-safety and compliance-driven environments AND comprehensive working experience on Office 365 and SAP.
- A valid driver's license, a passport, and the willingness to travel as required.
- Formal Project Management qualification or certification.
- Exposure to multi-site, regional or international collaboration.
- Comfortable operating between operational detail and strategic perspective.
- Effective communication with different areas and hierarchical levels.
DUTIES WILL INCLUDE:
- Delivering projects on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
- Establishing and maintaining appropriate project governance, controls, documentation, and reporting.
- Identifying, assessing, and managing project risks, dependencies, and constraints, escalating where required.
INDUSTRIAL IMPROVEMENT AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
- Managing continuous improvement projects, strategic transformation initiatives, and new venture developments within the plant.
- Driving initiatives focused on operational efficiency, reliability, cost optimisation, productivity, and process improvement.
- Supporting the development of business cases, feasibility studies, and investment proposals.
- Tracking and reporting on benefit realisation and value delivery.
SUSTAINABILITY AND LONG-TERM PLANT VIABILITY
- Leading and supporting projects that enhance environmental sustainability, energy efficiency, resource utilisation, and compliance.
- Ensuring sustainability principles are embedded in project design, execution, and decision making.
- Contributing to the long-term resilience and competitiveness of the White River plant.
STAKEHOLDER AND REGIONAL COLLABORATION
- Engaging and coordinating with cross-functional local stakeholders to ensure alignment and execution.
- Collaborating with regional and group teams, particularly in Portugal, to align on standards, methodologies, and shared initiatives.
- Managing relationships with external partners, ensuring contractual, safety, and performance expectations are met.
COMMUNICATION, REPORTING AND GOVERNANCE
- Providing structured, accurate, and timely reporting to the CITO South Africa and relevant stakeholders.
- Facilitating project steering committees, workshops, and decision forums.
- Ensuring transparent communication of progress, risks, issues, and key decisions.
About
MINT KULCA believes in building awesome companies - one culture at a time, and in doing so changing the business world. We offer our clients products and facilitation processes that make aligning values that support strategy significantly easier and faster. We live in a time where big brands do not necessarily attract the top talent but the right culture does, people want to work where they are part of a higher purpose. Employees who are connected to a personally meaningful purpose report being more motivated, engaged, empowered and satisfied with their work. We believe every person has the right to work in a culture that they can connect to - we call it KULCA
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