Business Unit / Operations Manager

SUMMARY:
Business Unit / Operations Manager

POSITION INFO:

Job Position: Business Unit / Operations Manager

Ref: 3640

Location: Port Elizabeth

Salary:  R55 000 to R60 000 per month CTC commensurate with experience and qualification 

Qualifications / Requirements

• Degree / Diploma in Production Management / Engineering
• Strong middle management person who can take strong control of the departments
• Business unit / Operations experience highly advantageous
• Experience in decision making
• Exceptional communication skills
• Hands on team management with clear goal setting and project mapping / management with the team
• Sound knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Sound understanding of quality standards
• Minimum of 8 year’s experience in an automotive manufacturing environment of which 5 years need to be in a supervisory role (stable work record) which include Operations
• Strong communication skills and professional disposition
• Impeccable work ethics and integrity
• Strong leadership skills and ability to motivate and drive, teams

Key Performance Areas:

• Continuously drive the cost effective capabilities of the systems plant, equipment, staff and suppliers and ensure a consistent flow of communications across all sectors
• Handling of all round operations
• Customer negotiations, presentations and visits – strong customer relationship focus
• Handling of key customers
• Managing of staff (operationally)
• Ensure operational efficiency with existing and new products through effective communication, manage implementation and manufacturing optimisation
• Ensure daily production runs efficiently by taking into account staff allocation, maintenance of equipment and the reporting thereof
• Ensure that all quality standards are met taking into account all necessary process from proper induction to daily activities necessary to ensure that procedures are followed correctly to produce work of an appropriate standard
• Ensure health and safety standards and protocols are known, understood and practiced
• Implementation of industrial engineering systems to ensure production is optimized by refining existing processes and introduction of new ones by having special regard to layout and equipment
• Development and maintenance of an enterprise resource planning system

• Daily production:
• Run daily production meetings
• Ensure daily production reports are completed and handed in
• Analyse any deviations to planned versus actual production numbers
• Create plan to rectify any deviations from planned production numbers
• Daily resource plan for absenteeism deviations for production staff
• Ensure production plan is aligned to available stock and make changes accordingly, ensure sales are aware of changes
• Decide on when over time is required to meet production targets
• Ensure returns are checked and findings reported to senior management
• Intra-day updates to sales on production status
• Plant maintenance:
• Ensure maintenance on plant and equipment is completed in accordance to maintenance schedule
• Tools usage report
• Personnel:
• Decide on the number of factory staff needed based on production targets using time study information from IE Department
• Weekly meetings with staff to inform and motivate
• Update and maintain the manufacturing performance board

Quality, Health and Safety

• Health and safety:
• Ensure health and safety procedures and protocols are followed throughout the company
• Quality manual:
• Ensure the manual is up to date and matches the quality procedures within production
• Corrective action reports:
• Manage the opening and closing of any corrective action reports created by the quality department
• Facility management:
• Ensure internal housekeeping is maintained in the plant and adheres to the quality manual
• Ensure internal and external aspects of the facility are in working order (security, tanks, windows, leaks) and take necessary action
• Induction training:
• Ensure correct induction training is done

Industrial Engineering

• Production:
• Ensure all production processes are up to date
• Create and present production improvement concepts for management for both factory expansion and efficiency improvement.
• Layouts:
• Manage implementation of any new processes and procedures
• Ensure factory Layouts are up to date
• Equipment:
• Provide motivations for new equipment purchases
• Ensure maintenance schedule is update and relevant

Systems Accountabilities

• Developing and maintaining a bespoke, fully integrated ERP system, that considers bar coding, automation and real time information so as to ensure that as a facility, company are efficient across all standard areas of measurement
• Reporting the status quo of this initiative to the Managing Director on a daily / weekly basis

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