SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Introduction
A well-established roofing and solar firm based in Cape Town is looking for an experienced Foreman to join their market-leading company. To plan, organize and control the production facility of the Cape Town factory/ plant in order to produce the required quantity of roof tiles and accessories within agreed quality and cost specifications.
Duties & Responsibilities
Functional knowledge:
- Production Planning – communicate daily with the commercial manager, sales and dispatch planning team to ensure sufficient stock levels are maintained.
- To plan maintenance schedule.
- To assist with problem solving on breakdowns on the main production line.
- Ensure safety levels are optimal and good housekeeping in factory.
- Yard control to plan, organized and control the production facility to produce tiles and fittings of the correct quality and cost at the correct time
- Management of stock levels including critical spares and raw materials and ensure procurement procedures are adhered to.
- Management stock counts and audits with finance and stock/ inventory control in system.
- Manage stock losses and variance tracking, production breakages.
- Negotiate with all suppliers of both raw material and maintenance spares for the timeous supply of materials at the best possible rate
- Maintain good industrial relations, experience within a unionized environment, and adhere to procedures between factory staff and management through the established IR procedures.
- Labour productivity, efficiencies and unit production costs.
- SHEQ Management and compliance with ISO 14001 & ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001
- Develop and motivate production staff to achieve agreed objectives regarding efficiency, quality, industrial relations, health and safety
- Maintain, review and develop the SABS Quality Management System to establish and maintain quality standards
- Controls to manage shrinkage and breakages.
- Management security breaches.
- Ensure implementation of the 5 S system.
Additional responsibilities required to fully exercise the function
- Negotiations with suppliers for high value items from time to time.Stores and buying procurement of spares for the factory fall under the Foremans control.
- Assist with the investigation of customer complaints
Business expertise
- Understanding of both the mechanical and the electrical.
- Understanding of costing
- Understanding of people and productivity costs.
Area of impact:
- Ensuring the production team achieves the productivity and efficiency targets.
Interpersonal skills:
- Ensure safety talks and safety tours of the factory. SHEQ or EHS Manager
- Negotiates with suppliers of critical spares.
Desired Experience & Qualification
Minimum education:
- Matric
- B Tech/ Degree preferably Engineering qualification preferable
Minimum experience:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a production/ factory environment.
- Sound electrical and mechanical knowledge.
Package & Remuneration
Basic salary R40 000.00
Car Allowance R6500
Fuel card R4000
Medical Aid 50% employer 50% employee contribution
Provident fund is 21.36% of the basic salary
13th cheque in December
Interested?
Please mail your CV to hr1 (at) peopledimension (dot) co (dot) za
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks, if you do not hear from us by then your application for this position was unsuccessful, but you have been added to our database for future vacancies.
