About the position
REQUIREMENTS
- Matric (Grade 12)
- Certificate in a technical discipline or production-related fields (NQF 5)
- Diploma in Technical Discipline or Production-related fields (NQF 6) - advantageous
- Trade Test (NQF 5) - Advantageous
- Certificate in First Line Management (FLMP) (NQF 5) – advantageous
- CCS Supervisory Development Programme - advantageous
- Up to 5 years experience in production/ maintenance operations in a manufacturing environment
- 1 to 2 years experience at a supervisory level in a manufacturing environment
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND REQUIRED SKILLS
- Computer literacy (MS Office Suite; SAP; ERP and other job-specific software systems)
- In-depth knowledge of plant production and maintenance practices, procedures and processes
- Sound understanding of compliance with applicable legislation, safety and other related manufacturing regulations
Communication skills (both verbal and written) - Proactive
- Action-oriented
- Problem-solving and analytical skills
- Flexibility
- Planning and organizing
- Supervisory skills
- Customer-focused
- Resilient
- Ability to cope under pressure and handle conflict situations
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Production operations and control
- Achieve production targets through the optimum use and application of resources and skills
- Ensures production operational effectiveness, efficiency and quality to achieve targets by timeframes/ schedules
- Ensures open communication channels with relevant departments to ensure the highest standards of product quality are manufactured
- Completes, processes and updates all production records and related documentation
- Maintenance operations and control
- Ensures effective and preventative maintenance is performed on all plant infrastructure/ equipment as required, to limit potential failure and optimise production processes
- Coordinates first-line maintenance to restrict or prevent plant/ equipment downtime
- Raises job cards for all maintenance work required, ensure work permits are included (work permits for “hot work”, vessel entry and elevated work to be escalated to the manager for approval)
- Approves all job cards after maintenance work is completed successfully
- Ensures that equipment and work areas are safe, and maintained by operators and that housekeeping principles are adhered to at all times
- Compliance
- Operates within controls and procedures to ensure the integrity of the company
- Identifies and reports risks or areas of concern to management within own department and area of responsibility
- Ensures compliance with all relevant regulations and procedures to prevent fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure
- Strictly adheres to, complies with and assumes responsibility for enforcing Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, and regulations toward minimizing risk, exposure, incidents or damage to the organization and environment in any form or manner
- Customer service
- Maintains effective working relationships with customers (both internal and external) towards rendering the highest quality of services
- Represents the company in meetings with relevant stakeholders
- Identifies and solves problems creatively whilst demonstrating a high level of integrity in line with the company's core values
- Staff supervision
- Ensures that all employees have signed performance agreements
- Monitors and measures performance quarterly by conducting employee appraisals
- In collaboration with HR, identify staff performance objectives, potential areas of development and action plans where necessary
- Ensures ongoing training and development of employees
- Addresses employee relations matters fairly and promptly
- Cost and financial control
- Contribute to the budget preparation process
- Promotes and communicates the effective, efficient, economical and transparent use of financial and other resources
- Monitors and controls expenditure against budget and ensures spending occurs within budgetary limits and the company's financial guidelines, reports deviations to the direct manager
- Explores opportunities to control and reduce costs
Desired Skills:
- Maintenance
- Operations
- Production
- Supervising
- Technical Support
