Plant Manager

SUMMARY:
Opportunity Available! Our leading client in the Automotive Sector is looking to employ a Plant Manager to join their dynamic team in East London.

POSITION INFO:
Job Description:

Budget & PMT:

• Establish budgets, PMTs following directives received from Regional Operation Director or product line GM
• Establish, implement actions plans and corrective actions aimed at achieving approved budget and PMT, in organisation and P-30

• Ensure that Process and Quality Engineers develop manufacturing processes that will be used as standards
• Ensure those s standards are continuously improved
• Ensure that industrialization of new products is done according to PG's industrial standards
• Ensure flawless new products launches
• Make product modification timely implemented
• Propose and implement once approved ideas of design, process modifications leading to material and other product cost continuous reduction

• Ensure that the quality system is implemented and that any quality problem detected is analyzed and timely solved
• Stop at first defect and support immediate corrective and preventive solution implementation to supply conforming product to customer.

• Ensure the effectiveness of the site logistic system for providing adequate level of service to customers, SIOPo Define & pilot activities aimed at continuously improving direct and indirect labor productivity, inventories level, TRS/TRP and maintenance costs, scrap level
• Interface with clusters, product groups & regional operations to increase productivity reservoir, benchmark and animate his networks
• Develop the 5 axes plan for the site, including safety & people involvement, VPS, constant innovation (in particular when competence center),

• Ensure respect of purchasing processes and indicators for P0 (products in production) & P1 (products in development) General management :
• Ensure correct staffing & competence, HSE
• Interface with local customer's entities
• Is (most of the cases) the legal entity General Manager
• Represent the company in front of local authorities
• Manage the labor relations of the site
• Manage or co-manage (with PGs or Regional Operation staffs) the site functions
• Ensure administrative management of any headcount belonging to the legal entity
• Is responsible for the site assets

• BCom Degree in Mechanical/Industrial Engineering
• 5-10 years experience working within an automotive environment at a Management level

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