Industrial Engineer

About the position

Position description / overview:

To manage, monitor and implement Continuous Improvement initiatives to plant, equipment and processes in order to optimise utilisation of organisational resources



Responsibilities:

Process Controls:

• Plan, schedule and monitor production (Sales requirements, stock levels, maintenance requirements, changeovers, etc.).
• Schedule and arrange change-overs according to the Production Plan (change-over sequence, tool changes, cutting knives, water jet nests, etc.).
• Capacity planning and calculation to determine overtime / planned stop requirements.

Production Management:

• Optimise the production process.
• Maintain manufacturing and production efficiencies.
• Ensure the optimal and efficient use of resources.
• Balance the production lines (manning levels).
• Monitor the achievement of daily production targets.
• Analyse daily variances and identify opportunities for improvements.
• Investigate and resolve manufacturing related problems and sub-standard performance.

Project Management:

• Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.

Raw Material Management:

• ·Monitor the level of production material to ensure sufficient material to support production.

Lean:

• Train Lean Modules.
• Implement Lean in all factories:
• 5S
• Std. Work.
• Quick Changeover.
• Kanban.
• Constraints Management.
• TPM.
• Visual management.
• VSM (Value stream mapping).
• Roll throughput yield (First time right) / Rework reduction.

OEE:

• Drive specific action items to improve OEE / OPR.
• Develop and implement headcount management tools to accurately predict the no. of heads that labour needs to be flexed by, or the expected overtime requirement due to excessive orders.
• Develop and implement Capacity planning tools.
• Drive Live OEE reporting systems.

CI / Innovation:

• Leading and facilitating continuous improvement efforts by directing relevant staff.
• Training and improving continuous improvement staff to meet required KPI’s.
• Research new equipment technology & promote innovation
• Coordinate Kaizen improvement initiatives at plant level.
• Champion problem solving activities b.m.o. 6 Sigma.
• Define and implement MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems).

Continuous improvement:

• Monitors continuous improvements and makes suggestions to maximise production output.

Best Business Practice (BBP):

• Assist Operation Manager to define BBP (Best Business Practice) criteria.
• Systemize the collection and reporting of BBP data.
• Use BBP info to leverage the implementation of a specific plants best practice in the other plants. E.g., Implementation of PE’s ability to use cheaper chemicals in the Rosslyn plant.

Quality:

• Create Control Plan templates to increase comprehensiveness of Control Plan and reduce new project control plan compilation time.
• Actively participate in the reduction of COPQ (Cost of Poor Quality).
• Analyse audit reports/result in terms of repeated deficiencies, reviewing with process owners.

 

Desired Skills:

• AutoCAD
• Industrial Engineering
• Lean Manufacturing