Production Superintendent

SUMMARY:
Opportunity Available!! Our leading client in the Automotive Sector is looking to employ a Production Superintendent to join their dynamic team in Durban.

POSITION INFO:
Job Description:

• Ensure the factory is staffed with the correct budgeted staffing levels. Ensure that overtime forms are checked and signed off before submission to Manufacturing Director.
• Ensure safety standards are implemented and maintained throughout the plant.
• Ensure the Operators receive the correct Product Training at ‘First Off’ stage
• Assistant Setters to be issued with correct tools, and tools and equipment checked and verified on a weekly basis.
• Deliver on required Operating Efficiencies, maintain scrap at recommended rate, and manage downtime
• Ensure the moulding machines, Production Tools and Ancillary equipment is in good working order.
• Ensure tooling can produce parts to the agreed Quality Standard as defined by the ‘Master Sample’.
• Ensure production plan is followed, and parts produced within the allocated time frame.
• Cycle time of every machine to be achieved and ensure that works order cycle time to be always used.

• Machine Cycles recorded on Produmax must balance up with good parts produced and Reject parts produced for the shift.
• Works Order must be balanced up, and jobs that are short run are to have the unused material, returned to Stores and signed off on the Works Order.
• Machines and factory floor to be cleaned and kept clear of debris, purge, sprues, oil, dust etc.
• Implement 4S activities to ensure the factory is always kept clean and tidy.
• Boxes / Dunnage’s to be labelled as they are filled. And QC approved boxes / Dunnage’s to be removed from the shop floor to the WIP or FG Store.
• Tool Change to start only after all requirements of the check sheet have been met and everything is prepared.
• Tool Change times to be kept within the prescribed times.
• First off submission to be done within the prescribed time.
• Correct Tool Breakdown procedure to be followed.
• All documentation to be available at Workstation before production can commence.
• Hourly Production patrols done on machines to ensure compliance to cycle time, hourly count and quality.
• 2% Rejection Procedure and Escalation to be strictly followed.
• All parts manufactured to be to the level of the First Off Sample or better.
• Zero SSN’s
• Manage the KPI’s of Subordinates
• Enforce discipline in Workplace

• Matric + National Diploma in Production Management or equivalent operations qualification.
• 5 years of relevant experience in a production environment working with an unionised workforce as a Supervisor. Preferred in injection moulding manufacturing
• Working with a manufacturing system preferred Produmax

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