Senior Production Manager (Automotive)

SUMMARY:
Senior Production Manager (Durban)

POSITION INFO:

Automotive Senior Production Manager (Durban)

An automotive parts manufacturing company based in Durban, KZN is looking for a Production Manager to lead and manage the production team to create a management culture that drives performance to ensure that good quality parts are produced on time in full and to budget to meet the expectations of customers and stakeholders in a safe working environment

KEY PERFORMANCE AREA

• Process owner for the Production Department and is responsible for implementing, maintaining and updating all policies and procedures in the department
• Develops and maintains the necessary departmental procedures and forms to ensure efficient handling of routine activities according to Shareholders, business and customer requirements.
• Facilitate the development of measures and other controls to monitor the key elements of safety, production, quality, stock control, machine usage and efficiency.
• Ensures that the section is run efficiently in terms of budgetary and cost control.

• Manage, lead and mentor departmental managers in their respective roles and responsibilities.

• Ensures critical skills are retained and skills development is a continuous programme.

• Ensures risk assessments and conducted, plans and executes activities to reduce high-risk processes.

• Ensures production managers plan and implement ways to achieve utilization and efficiency.
• Ensures production managers use the production recording systems as per instructions.
• Ensures budgets are used according to plans.
• Ensures departmental managers’ report internal downtime, investigate root cause and implement countermeasures.
• Ensures that the production manager prepares all resources to achieve production efficiencies and utilization.
• Ensures that the production planning manager implement policies to set up the department.
• Ensure that the manager organise the customer forecast into plans for production.
• Ensures that production data is collected and reported accurately on a daily, weekly and monthly.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Preferably an Engineering degree/diploma or Diploma in Production Management (NQF Level 6/7)
• Minimum 10 years of senior manufacturing role in an Automotive Industry or similar, preferably OEM or first tier.
• Have successfully implemented measurements and other controls to monitor key deliverables in an automotive manufacturing environment.
• Have developed at least one successful management team who have the competency to run an efficient and profitable management process.
• Computer Literacy
• MS Office competency to at least intermediate level.
• Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing techniques.
• Technical skills in materials and inventory management, production scheduling, and preventive maintenance.
• Leadership: A demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.
• Planning: Ability to perform short and long-range planning.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent project and program management skills.
• Quality orientation.
• Computer proficient.

If you meet the requirements and interested kindly send your CV to by 18 August 2025