SUMMARY:
To ensure optimum utilization of personnel, equipment, and money to transform raw materials into finished products and agreed quantities, and efficiency, to be achieved within the constraints, of safety, environmental, legal, and quality requirements. To perform cost effective planning and coordination in all required activities in the Sulphuric,
POSITION INFO:
Purpose of the job
To ensure optimum utilization of personnel, equipment, and money to transform raw materials into finished products and agreed quantities, and efficiency, to be achieved within the constraints, of safety, environmental, legal, and quality requirements. To perform cost effective planning and coordination in all required activities in the Sulphuric, Phosphoric, Granulation operations and maintenance of the Richards Bay plant
Minimum Requirements
Qualifications
Experience
- 5 years in Chemical Plant environment at a Supervisory Level
- Leadership and management qualities
- Knowledge of the production environment and plant Operation
- Strong understanding of cost/benefit economic analysis and budgeting
- Ability to generate new ideas from within self and team.
- Can implement new and useful concepts effectively.
- Excellent communication with all levels of the organization and across different groups
Idea Requirements
Qualifications (Same as Minimum plus the following)
- Post Graduate Management Qualification
- Computer literate on the company’s maintenance system, DCS, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel
- Certificate in Production/Operations and Productivity Management
Experience
- Relevant process plant experience, at least 8years
Key result areas:
- Ensure effective response to incidents, hazards, and emergencies.
- Evaluate plant operation on shift basis.
- Coordinate and advice on process shutdown functions and give advice on maintenance work where required.
- Evaluate and advice on material usage variances.
- Identify process hazards and potential operating problems.
- Coordinate inspections and audits of the plant.
- Maintain current equipment in a good state of readiness at all times
- Mutually defies requirements with internal/external customers.
- Organizes work effectively and uses available resources.
- Can make timely effective decisions consistent with business plans and department goals, able to manage change and multiple priorities.
- Communicate internally with production/maintenance and other departments thus ensuring efficient, effective operations.
- Works and interacts effectively as a team member and acts as a mentor to others.
- Continually strive to improve plant, including safety, health, and environmental aspects.
- Effective communication: co-operation with other parties to ensure production requirements are fully understood and met.
- Carry out all practical training.
- Prepare shift report on plant performance, checking all downtime data provided by supervisors.
- Participate in process/maintenance shift meetings and report on performance and production rates.
- Lead the shift production meetings and report on performance.
- Compile monthly budget variance information.
- Do analysis of historical downtime for problem identification.
- Proven track record in problem solving and decision making and exceeding objectives and delivering results.
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