Job Summary
We have an opportunity for an Plant Manager to join our team in East London on a full time basis.
REQUIREMENTS
- Grade 12
- B Tech/ Degree preferably Engineering qualification preferable
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a production/ factory environment
- Sound electrical and mechanical knowledge
- Proficiency in English and Afrikaans
- Ability to manage unskilled and skilled workforce
- Excellent communication skills essential
- People management and problem-solving skills
- Ability to deal with conflict
- Microsoft package & PLC machines (Siemens)
- Lock out procedures are followed
- Fault finding procedures
- Prioritizing of activities with limited resources available
- Total quality management
- High work ethic and integrity
- Strategic thinker
- Good people relations
- Excellent at conflict management
- Ability to deal with difficult situations e.g., strike action
- Performance driven
- Understanding of both the mechanical and the electrical
- Understanding of costing
- Understanding of people and productivity cost
- Knowledge of manufacturing concrete, tile, floor, bricks
Job Description
- 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 5S system
- Ensure safety talks and safety tours of the factory
- SHEQ or EHS Manager negotiates with suppliers of critical spares
