Workshop Manager, Pretoria

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Enshrine Placements Full time

Position reports to:
Director**Type: Permanent

Primary purpose:
To plan, organise, manage and control the Pretoria Workshop as a profit centre and business unit.

Key performance areas:

  • Manage cost centres in terms of budget.
  • Support manufacturing's commercial activities from proposals, project planning and budgeting through to contract and claim management.
  • Manage, plan and implement policies of the company to ensure continuing operations,
  • Strives to continuously improve productivity.
  • To develop, implement, modify and manage manufacturing and production processes in order to achieve targets.
  • Analyse operations to evaluate and optimise the performance of business unit and staff in meeting objectives.
  • Determine areas of potential cost reduction.
  • Supports senior management in negotiating contracts with clients, suppliers, or other entities.
  • Direct and coordinate the activities of the Fabrication Manager and interact effectively with Work Preparation offices, Project Managers, QA and QC.
  • Managers to achieve optimum, high quality outputs within given time lines.
  • Recruit, manage by objectives, reward, recognize, motivate, train, develop and discipline where necessary in the fabrication departments.
  • Ensure full compliance to health, safety and environment as well as legal requirements.
  • Planning of production equipment maintenance and downtime requirements.
  • Weekly reporting of production status and implementing corrective action as required.
  • To manage and oversee breakdown work after hours and on weekends.
  • Evaluate and report on a project's cost effectiveness, risk profile and profitability
  • Any other jobrelated duties as requested from time to time.

Competencies and skills:

  • Motivated by the financial performance of the business unit.
  • Achievement driven.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Conflict management skills.
  • Planning and organising skills.
  • Problem solving and decision making.
  • High stress tolerance.
  • Leadership and relationship building.
  • Emotional maturity and above average people skills.
  • Excellent communicator.
  • Pedantic, attention to detail.
  • Pursues improved methods over accepted norms.
  • Confident interactions with senior management.
  • Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing technical publications.
  • Commercial and financial acumen. Must exert him/herself to arriving at the best price that will win the contract in a competitive bidding situation while ensuring that the contract can be carried out profitably.
  • Strong technical mindset with ability to read and interpret technical data
  • Highly numerate with the ability to research, assemble, manage and manipulate numerical information.
  • Organisational and presentational skills are crucial. Must be able to confidently interact with senior management.

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Location (country, city):
Pretoria**, Gauteng

Job Qualification & Experience:

Preferred Requirements:

  • Grade 12/N
  • N.Dip (Production Management, Mechanical or Electrical Heavy Current)/ B.Sc. Eng. (Mechanical or Electrical Heavy Current).
  • Postgraduate qualification or certificate course in business management, management accounting or similar would be advantageous.
  • Minimum 15 years of experience in production or fabrication environment, with the at least the last 5 years in a senior management position.
  • Exposure to utility boiler and steam piping maintenance would be advantageous.
  • Knowledge of induction bending, high pressure piping, pressure vessels and boiler pressure part production.
  • Practical knowledge of welding processes.
  • Proficient in reading engineering drawings.
  • Sound knowledge of fabrication processes and workflow.
  • Project Management in a fabrication environment.
  • Understands the commercial aspects of fabrication projects.
  • Entrepreneurial approach to tendering and operations management.
  • Competent in management accounting and able to interpret financial statements with a view to initiating changes on the shop floor.
  • Able to derive a lookahead and plan accordingly.
  • Computer literate (MS Office).

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