Plant Manager

Full Job Description

Oversee and manage the production on a daily basis. Ensure that all company requirements on HR, quality, safety and risk, environment, administation and operations are met within the production environment.

Health, Safety and Risk Regulations:

• Ensure safe operation of the plant is in place and met.
• Report any conditions that may affect safety of personnel or machinery to supervisors and management
• Production items and deadline on safety report needs to be maintained and reported on

Environment and sustainability:

• Comply and implent SA Environment and Sustainability procedures and work instructions.
• Implement and monitor production environment and sustainability to meet all relevant and legal company requirements, including relevant documentation - Environment report.

Leadership and Human Recourses:

• Comply and implement company ahd HR procedures and work instructions.
• Conduct production meetings with the staff and minutes need to be on the system. Minutes shared across the team.
• Continually strive to improve teamwork with employees.
• Ensure performance appraisals are conducted with staff and deadlines are met.
• Ensure production team are effectively communicated to with regards to their responsibilities and authorities.
• Report and implement training and development of production team using available training opportunities. Ensure production personnel are skilled and trained according to work instructions relevant for their job functions.
• Manage produciotn employee relation climate and ensure corrective and disciplinary action is taken when required in line with legislation and policies
• Manage production staff time keeping, leave and attendance in line with company policy.
• Request recruitment of production staff and organise exit medicals

Quality and Laboratory:

• Comply and implement procedures and work instructions at Branchs 
• Implement and monitors production quality control processes.
• Implement and monitor ISO standards and approach in all areas of production.
• Housekeepong in production and yard area.
• Investigate and establishment of root cause of production related problems on NCR registers, calibration and verification mix.

Finance and administration;

• Contribute to procedures and work instructions,
• Obtain quotes and recommend suppliers for production related expensre items
• Implement and encourage cost cutting initiatives

Procurement and inventory;

• Manage production loss factors and intiate plans to reduce these losses
• Daily production planning document

Operations Management;

• Compile daily production plan and sequencing in order to ensure maximum efficiencies.
• Analyse and drive production asset productivity through KPIs
• Daily capture, analysse and report of production data, actual KPIs vs budget and works with production team to address areas of non conformance.

Business Intelligence and communication;

• Check daily production data and releasing DHP.
• Ensure adherence to production ERP and DH application system and data requirements.

Matric

Production or related qualification

Code 8 licence

3 - 5 years in a similar position.

• HR Services, Recruitment & Selection