Plant Manager - Jacobs/Durban: 6 Month Contract

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Objectives:

• Ideate and implement strategic improvements for production, quality, and labour utilization throughout the facility.
• Carry out the daily management of the plant around the five elements of plant safe operation, product quality (yield rate), on-time delivery, cost control and team building and use them as the performance evaluation indicators of this position.
• Provide leadership to ensure effective utilization of plant personnel and equipment.
• Collaborate with functional departments in the implementation of improvements.
• Investigate and implement innovative manufacturing processes to reduce costs and improve product quality.
• Apply lean manufacturing principles in designing, specifying, and validating world-class manufacturing processes that achieve organizational goals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, conduct and coordinate manufacturing operations for safety, production, QC, maintenance, logistics and packaging departments.
• Ensure that production line schedules are in accordance with facility capabilities, customer requirements and financial planning.
• Manage materials replenishment, quality standards, and performance metrics in support of organizational goals and objectives.
• Responsibility for plant safe operation, production output, production quality, team building and on-time shipping.
• Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions. Promote and construct plant standard operating procedures and clean production practices.
• Manage costs structures for manufacturing by keeping operational expenses within budget allowance and investigate cost-reduction measures.
• Create documentation protocols and ensure that all records of operations are properly maintained and reviewed.
• Collect and review data to reduce inefficiencies and waste.
• Analyze data and create reports to present to executives regarding processes and find places of waste and overtime.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards.
• Commit to plant safety procedures.
• Ensuring all safety and health standards are met to keep an organization accident-free.
• Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts.
• Share a trusting relationship with the workgroup and recruit, manage and develop plant staff.
• Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
• Develop and review policies and procedures that improve efficiency without compromising quality and safety.
• Comply with the Organization’s management rules, Respect business strategic objectives and regularly (weekly, quarterly, annual) report plant operations to direct superior in writing.

Plant Manager’s responsibility for safety:

• As the person in charge of the 16.2 responsibilities of the Plant. Strictly implement the safety production policies and regulations, conscientiously implement the safety production policies and objectives, dynamic management will be applied to the safety production of the enterprise, lead the safety production work of the enterprise, and take the main leadership responsibility for the safety production management of the enterprise.
• Establish and improve the safety production target management responsibility system of the Plant, Organize the formulation and implementation of the plant's safety production management regulations, safety technology operation procedures, and safety technology measure plans. Make clear the assessment indicators, organize the assessment of the safety production target management of the enterprise, and establishing the production safety first concept.
• Establish and improve the enterprise safety production guarantee system, calculate the safety production funds into the enterprise's budget and ensure safety production funds are used reliably and correctly.
• Improve the enterprise production safety management system and reward and punishment methods, to ensure that the enterprise production safety work with plans, goals, inspections, assessments, rewards and penalties.
• Lead and develop annual safety production work plans and safety technical measures plans for the enterprise and organize their implementation.
• Lead and develop the formulation of emergency rescue plans for accidents and established a sound emergency rescue system for enterprises.
• Presided over the monthly production safety meeting, reviewed and checked safety technology management measures, and make plans for safety technology measures. Organize the safety management safety inspection and hidden dangers rectification of the enterprise, and solve the safety problems in the plant operation period on time.
• Organize production the safety activities, accident and fire prevention drills and production safety publicity and education.
• Be at the scene of the accident in person, lead and organize the investigation, analysis and handling of the accident after the accident occurred in the enterprise. Study and formulate future preventive measures after the accidents.
• Conduct quarterly & annual safety work summaries, form written documents, and report to the General Manager