About the position
Our client, a leading Manufacturing company in the automotive sector, is looking to fill the position of Production Superintendent for the moulding department.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the factory is staffed with the correct budgeted staffing levels.
- Ensure that overtime forms are checked and signed off before submission to Manufacturing Director.
- Ensure safety standards are implemented and maintained throughout the plant.
- Ensure the operators receive the correct product training at 'First Off' stage
- Assistant setters to be issued with correct tools, and tools and equipment checked and verified on a weekly basis.
- Deliver on required operating efficiencies, maintain scrap at recommended rate, and manage downtime.
- Ensure the moulding machines, production tools and ancillary equipment is in good working order.
- Ensure tooling can produce parts to the agreed quality standard as defined by the 'master sample'.
- Ensure production plan is followed, and parts produced within the allocated time frame.
- Cycle time of every machine to be achieved and ensure that works order cycle time to be always used.
- Machine cycles recorded on Produmax must balance up with good parts produced and reject parts produced for the shift.
- Works order must be balanced up, and jobs that are short run are to have the unused material, returned to stores and signed off on the works order.
- Machines and factory floor to be cleaned and kept clear of debris, purge, sprues, oil, dust etc. Implement 4S activities to ensure the factory is always kept clean and tidy.
- Boxes / Dunnage's to be labelled as they are filled and QC approved boxes / dunnage's to be removed from the shop floor to the WIP or FG store.
- Tool change to start only after all requirements of the check sheet have been met and everything is prepared. Tool Change times to be kept within the prescribed times.
- First off submission to be done within the prescribed time. Correct tool breakdown procedure to be followed.
- All documentation to be available at workstation before production can commence.
- Hourly production patrols done on machines to ensure compliance to cycle time, hourly count and quality.
- 2% rejection procedure and escalation to be strictly followed.
- All parts manufactured to be to the level of the first off sample or better. Last off procedure to be followed.
- PPM Performance in line with customer requirements. Zero SSN's
- Manage the KPI's of subordinates, enforce discipline in workplace.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Grade 12 Senior Certificate
- National Diploma in Production Management or equivalent operations qualification.
- 5 years of relevant experience in a production environment working with a unionised workforce as a Supervisor. Preferred in injection moulding manufacturing.
- Working with a manufacturing system preferred Produmax
If you are interested in applying for this role, please send a detailed copy of your CV to [Email Address Removed]
If you have not been contacted within two (2) weeks, please consider your application as unsuccessful.
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