About the position
Background:
- Our Client within the manufacturing sector, is looking for a Production Manager to drive all production activities
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric or relevant tertiary qualification
- Refrigeration experience would be beneficial
- Previous experience in a supervisory or management role is essential, project management or project coordination experience will be a benefit
- Previous exposure to a production environment would be advantageous
- Strong technical/operational background (any CO2 experience would be optimal)
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Office applications
Responsibilities:
- Work across functions with peers in other departments to ensure collaboration for shared goals
- Engage and co-ordinate with other Managers across the Company
- Interact with senior management for reporting
- Report back to senior management on productivity and other performance indicators
- Order fulfilment: On-time completion, estimate to completion, identify and investigate, drop in performance etc.
- Delivery in full on time rate: Adjustments to schedule, planned vs actual, resource capacity
- Rework rate - number of errors, change requests
- Identify of root cause and implement corrective and preventive measures
- Monitor and measure compliance of standards
- Monitor and review manufacturing operations and processes to ensure quality standards are maintained
- Ensure all production processes are cost effective and efficient
- Communicate goals and key performance indicators and provide guidance to direct reports
- Ensure that direct reports understand their roles and responsibilities
- Ensure that daily, weekly, and monthly tasks are allocated and delegated
- Communicate changes from senior leaders
- Monitor employee absences, and address and resolve patterns and abuse
- Counselling, disciplinary action, grievances, and conflict resolution
- Recruitment
- Ensure all equipment and machines are maintained and serviced to specification
- Plan and order material in accordance with production requirements
- Ensure adequate stock levels
- Ensure that processes and procedures are developed and effectively implemented to
- Help the department meet its operational and strategic goals
- Identify gaps in processes and implementing improvement measures
- Ensure acceptable quality standards for all processes and procedures from all team members
- Identify knowledge gaps and arrange training
- Guide the talent identification and development processes for a group or function
- Provide ongoing training, coaching, and mentoring
- Orientation and training of new employees
- Promote and maintain awareness and compliance of health and safety in accordance with Company policy
- Ensure that ISO requirements are met and maintained and that company and clients’ quality standards are complied with
- Finished goods are checked and found to be correct, complete, and compliant prior to handover to following department
- Rectification and/or repair of non-conforming product as a priority, and that relevant departments are informed of delays and revised schedules
- Non-conformance paperwork is raised, actioned, and processed
TO APPLY:
- Only if you meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
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Desired Skills:
- Production planning
- Production reports
- Project schedules
- Refrigeration
- CO2 experience
- ISO Standards
- Production Manager
