Job Description
Responsibilities:
Key Performance Indicators:
- Product quality
- Inventory Control, including inventory write-offs
- Factory admin costs
- Direct manufacturing costs
- Raw material costs
- On-time delivery of shipments out of the site
Health and Safety:
- Maintain Total Recordable Incident Rate as per set standards
- Safely leadership, drive a safe positive culture within employees and ensure that EHS systems maintained, developed and implemented
- Plant walks to engage operators and seek opportunity for improvements
- EHS process/procedure awareness training
- Comply with all legal requirements of the Occupational, Health & Safety Act
Staff Management / Industrial relations:
- Establishment and maintenance of effective two-way communication channels between management and staff
- Staff management – Discipline, grievances, training needs etc.
- Keeping abreast of matters on trade union activity
- Performance Appraisals on a yearly basis
- The succession plan for key roles
- Monitor temporary labour on a monthly basis
Quality:
- Reduce COPQ
- Active implementation of the Corp. COPQ Program
- Ensure the site is ISO 900x ready or ISO 900x certified
- Ensure the site is legally compliant to operate safely and produce the product
- Quality system leadership, drive the ISO quality system at the site and that it is developed, maintained, implemented.
- Annually develop Quality & EHS target’s and objectives
- Biannually chair ISO 9001 Business review meeting, prepare information and presentations
- Quarterly EHS site reviews with representatives and stakeholders
Financials, Inventory, Cash & Capital, Productivity:
- Annually submit operations planning a budget for review
- Monthly Sales shipments and operation production planning & demand forecasts
- Monthly reporting and forecasting of operations volumes, inventory value and costs
- Weekly review of shipments and operation planning,
- Weekly review that SAP production orders and material requirements are maintained
- Weekly pulse operations reports for the month today, last estimate operations volumes, inventory value and costs
- Update site productivity in the company productivity tracker
- Update HR factory admin and DMC overtime & leave tracker
- Weekly safety reviews talks
- Weekly review of raw material forecast demand and requesting admin to place orders
- Monthly Review on the quality batch pass rate
- Supervisor control of the company Quality Control system, update system based on business MoC
- Review R&D QC checks on new formulations for commercial trials and business reviews
- Add material information form to business MoC system, ensure cost estimate and bill of materials is correct for SAP entry
- Process owner of capital expenditure requests
- Annual personal development review of supervisor
- Initiate material write-offs in the EAS system
- Manage two stock cycle counts a year
- Monthly Review and update D.M.C product file
- Approve costs in SAP & Web cycle based on D.O.A
- Perform tasks & reports requested by operations leaders and direct manager
- P&L tracking, financial adjustments (accruals, journals)
- Review, update and develop Standard Operating Procedures for all tasks in the plant as required
Raw Material Planning:
- Update ROP worksheets, calculate consumption requirements
- Update MRP worksheets, capture actual consumption, determine ROP per material
- Review update SAP with LE & FC
- Place & communicate orders with suppliers
- Review direct procurement (materials)
DMC Control:
- Update DMC template
- Add/Change BOMs
- Update actual landed cost of raw materials
- Create monthly DMC report for Commercial
Inventory:
- EAS Approval system
- Inventory FC
- Review Inventory count control
Requirements & Skills:
- Degree or National Diploma in Engineering or Chemistry
- Diploma in Business or Operations Management
- Previous Plant Manager experience within a manufacturing concern
- Practical bias
- Good communication skills to all levels
- Human Resource management and organizational skills
- Safety Training
- Computer literate
- SAP knowledge
- ERP system knowledge
- Project Management experience
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Please note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.