Production Manager

SUMMARY:
Leading chemical manufacturing company is seeking to employ a Production Manager for the manufacturing operations consisting of run 3 powder lines and 4 liquid lines.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

• Carefully and accurately conduct production planning to ensure required minimum and target stock levels are maintained at all times
• Evaluate and factor in MRP sales forecasts in production planning for the month ahead and prioritises critical and unforeseen issues according to strict timelines
• 3Create ad manage production schedules for on-time products completion
• Partner with Procurement to ensure that all required and relevant raw materials are on-hand in sufficient quantities and available.
• Partner with Dispatch to ensure required stock is on-hand and ready for delivery to customers with no delays, distinguishing between local and export packaging & labelling requirements as per customer specifications.
• Partner with Quality to ensure that quality standards are prioritised and adhered to
• Ensure all OHS and quality standards are met, conduct ad-hoc inspections to ensure adherence to OHS and Quality standards and aim to achieve an incident free operation
• Effectively manage the fault-finding process in cases where a product tests “out-of-specification”
• Pro-actively evaluate production equipment and schedule regular maintenance for equipment to ensure continued production and minimal downtime.
• Proactively manage the production team by ensuring adequate scheduling of staff and setting daily productivity goals for each production line
• Motivate, support and train production staff to ensure they are equipped and able to produce the required products at the expected quality standard
• Maintain up to date and accurate production records, ensure metrics, reports, and production documentation is available.
• Ensure efficiency during the production process and implement improvements to the production process when required with the approval of the relevant senior manager.
• Continually evaluate production workflow procedures to identify areas where efficiency can be improved without compromising safety or quality
• Analyse budgets and continuously control production costs and identify/rectify waste measures.

• Education: Grade12 plus relevant 3 year degree/diploma
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years' production management experience within the chemical industry
• Work hours: Monday - Friday (07h00-17h00)
• Own transport
• Excellent communication, numeracy and computer literacy skills.
• Excellent people management skills and management of staff.
• Ability to identifying problems and implement preventative strategies to minimise risk.
• Being able to develop good working relationships and trust with various teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytic ability and be very detail oriented.
• Working well with many different departments and external suppliers.
• Always keeping the customer in mind.
• Follow principles for continual improvement
• Being results and deadline driven