Line Lead

1 month ago


Brits, South Africa Bridgestone Full time

**Line Lead**:
**POSITION SNAPSHOT**:

- JobReq ID: 50661- Type of work: On site- Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent- Full/Part Time: Full time- Location: Brits, ZA**OUR COMPANY**:
Bridgestone in Europe, CIS, Middle East, India and Africa (BSEMIA), headquartered in Zaventem (Belgium), is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, a global leader providing sustainable mobility and advanced solutions.

In addition to our premium tire products, we offer a growing portfolio of tire-centric and mobility solutions. Together with our partners and guided by "Serving Society with Superior Quality”, that has been our mission since Shojiro Ishibashi founded Bridgestone in 1931, we are working to accelerate sustainable mobility innovations and solutions. Through innovative technology, we are committed to easier, safer, smoother and seamless mobility for our society and customers improving how people move, live, work and play.

Bridgestone also benefits from a significant retail network throughout the region - in fact our retail presence in the EMIA region is the largest in the tire industry. Through 17 distinct retail partners, we have around 3,500 outlets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as around 2,500 outlets through our partner network in India. This network offers a selection of services, concepts and mobility solutions.

At Bridgestone we pride ourselves on the strong relationships we maintain with everyday drivers and this extensive retail network is one of the core reasons why.

In line with the “Bridgestone Essence”, our work environment is based on integrity and teamwork, where everyone can learn from each other and contribute with their own ideas in achieving the coming goals.

We want to hear from people who can take the challenge, unleash their creative potential and contribute to the company success demonstrating ownership, courage and agility. We want you to develop your skills, expand your knowledge and be proud of your work.

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**Job purpose**

The production line lead is responsible for organising and managing all production related activities on the building machines. This includes but is not limited to the following:

- Coaching, training, motivating and guiding all equipment owners, cell, process and maintenance leaders.
- Implementing and enforcing operating policies and procedures.
- Delivering agreed production operating targets and goals.
- Implementing strategies to ensure safe and efficient production operations, continuous improvement and delivering superior quality on a consistent basis.
- Leads the implementation of the Daily Management System (DMS) in the supervised production cell.
- Manages professionals on process and maintenance as well as a team of operators to obtain the cell’s assumed goals arising from CBN (Compelling Business Need), the Master Plan and the Annual Plan of the department. Also leads the implementation of standards in the managed structure.

**Main responsibilities**
- Create and maintain a safe and healthy working and operating environment for all people on the manufacturing site.
- Drive delivery of agreed production operating targets and goals including; OE and Warehouse Yield; production volume; conversion cost; material usage; plant and process reliability; productivity and waste reduction.
- Prepare and obtain approval for operating cost budgets and drive production cost performance to achieve agreed budgets and targets.
- Drive implementation of IWS, B-Safe and B-EMEC and any other Bridgestone manufacturing strategies and initiatives.
- Ensure compliance and strict adherence to Bridgestone quality standards.
- Monitor operations and implement corrective actions to full on time delivery of agreed production budgets and goals.
- Identify, coach and develop talent to build competency and capability to support our cell centric organisation.
- Drive employee engagement and compliance with all legal and corporate policies and regulations relating to labour, safety, health, quality and the environment.
- Guide and coordinate the activities of the team
- Management of the clean, inspect and lubricate (CIL) process
- Management of Defects Handling process
- Management of the Incident Elimination process
- Managing and improving results (i.e. driving performance improvement)
- Lead execution of 90 day plans to eliminate losses using IWS tools
- Lead the cell daily direction setting (DDS) meetings
- On the floor coaching of operators e.g. DMS execution, loss elimination, skills development and technical mastery
- Provide coaching to team leaders in the shift exchange DDS meetings
- Lead issue resolution “to root cause” on the floor of chronic stops
- Lead small work groups, communicate effectively and develop short-term action plans
- Overall responsibility for CFT cell output
- Conduct Health checks and identify gaps

**Required capabilities**:

- Experience and reasonable technical mastery in operations
- Planning, Leading and Organising



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