About this role
Production Manager
Umbogintwini
DL
Main Purpose of the Job
- Lead the team in successful completion of the production plan in accordance with goals.
- Achieve Safety, Environmental, Quality and OEE targets.
Required outputs: Functional
Site KPA
- Responsible and accountable for the effective leadership of production at the site
- Identify “Best Practices", newest technologies and benchmark the plant against these.
- Implement best practice for plant through put, quality improvement and energy reduction.
- Develop and prepare “concepts” into tangible projects ( for which funding can be secured)
- Optimize existing processes to maximize production and reduce costs
- Ensure that production costs are maintained within operational budgets.
- Investigate plant bottlenecks, identify root causes, propose and implement solutions
- Research and propose trials for new processes and equipment.
- Responsible for all managerial functions including maintaining discipline and enabling the development of all production employees.
- Manage and direct activities with a focus on creating a safe working environment through a zero-tolerance approach to unsafe practices and adherence to manufacturing best practices.
- Responsible for excellent housekeeping and SHEQ standards.
- Driver of daily Goal alignment meetings and engagement with production staff.
- Participate in the production budgeting process on an annual basis and monitor and control the costs thereof.
- Driving initiatives to ensure full compliance with safety, health and environmental objectives in line with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001
Ensure the effective commissioning of section or equipment to a specific state:
- Ensure appropriate documentation is available for batch start of any new process.
- MOC for any new process done is conducted and assessed appropriately.
Ensure Effective communication of process condition:
- Inform and Resolve process condition upsets.
- Communicate in an accurate, concise, clear, and prompt manner to all departments.
- Take correct action to solve any deviations to process conditions and NCR.
- Log incidents on smart sheet on any deviation from process procedures and standards for investigations.
Ensure effective administration:
- Ensure that the hand over logbook is completed accurately.
- Sign off work plans, logs, miscellaneous and records accurately.
- Administration and Execution of Permit to work
- Efficient control over Utility and raw material usage, to prevent wastage.
SHEQ
- Ensure that all SHEQ standards are maintained and updated.
- Ensure JPlant Foremans and SHE Reps carry out their functions.
- Ensure that Jplant Foremans and Operators, rectify and report safety hazards/near misses promptly.
- Process safety management element owner.
- Lead incident investigations.
Staff Interaction:
- Carry out PJOs on Team Leaders, identify areas that require attention.
- Ensure that effective management is carried out on the production line.
- Ensure Effective communication within the production team.
- Draft and ensure compliance to Training matrix of all production employees.
Factory Development:
- Aid in determining short, medium and long-term factory development strategies.
- Conduct feasibility studies for all new factory development ideas.
Requirements, Qualifications and expertise required (Must)
- Grade 12
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in a chemical plant
- Minimum qualification National Diploma Chemical Engineering
Personal attributes
- Production Plan
- Availability of raw materials
- Equipment
- Draft and Update – SOP’s
- Other departments.
- Operators.
- Work plans and handover logbooks.
- Training matrix and training material.
- PPE
- Navision
- Strong manpower skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills to identify root causes and implement permanent solutions.
- Knowledge of safety, quality and environmental best practices and management systems.
- Leadership, strong technical capability, and good people skills are essential.
- Must be self-motivated and able to work under pressure and work extended hours.
- Possess effective communication and negotiation skills.
- Must be able to work within a team environment.
IT literate
Competencies (skills, knowledge and characteristics)
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent Work Ethic, Teamwork .
- Flexible and integrity.
- Diligent and Able to work under stress conditions.
- Attention to detail.
- Motivated and committed.
- Problem solving.
- Time management.
- Accountability.
- Proactive.
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