Plant Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

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 implement 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 Resources:

• Comply and implement company and HR procedures and work instructions.
• Conduct production meetings with the staff and ensure minutes are 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 is effectively communicated with regarding 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 production employee relation climate and ensure corrective and disciplinary action is taken when required in line with legislation and policies.
• Manage production staff timekeeping, 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 Branches.
• Implement and monitor production quality control processes.
• Implement and monitor ISO standards and approach in all areas of production.
• Housekeeping in production and yard area.
• Investigate and establish the 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 expense items.
• Implement and encourage cost-cutting initiatives.

Procurement and Inventory:

• Manage production loss factors and initiate 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, analyse and report of production data, actual KPIs vs budget and work 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.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Matric

Production or related qualification

Code 8 licence

3 - 5 years in a similar position.

• HR Services, Recruitment & Selection

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