Production Manager

6 months ago


Pinetown, South Africa Unique Personnel Full time

**Job Number**
- 73005

**Job Type**
- Permanent

**Job Title**
- Production Manager

**Computer Skills**
- MS Excel

**Industry**
- Manufacturing

**City**
- Pinetown

**Province**
- Kwazulu Natal

**Performance Outputs**

**Planning**
- Liaise with Operations Manager re current projections vs. actual sales
- Review/ adjust monthly Planning Schedule & Weekly Plans
- Conduct weekly Production Meeting at Conversion & Daily Production meeting Extrusion, identify and action optimum programme to execute planned requirements
- Discover trends in market demand vs. stock, on hand (Finished, WIP, Raw and Packaging), identify potential shortfalls, recommend remedial action
- Review plant availability (condition, planned maintenance, schedule, etc.)

**Organizing (Shift Initiation)**
- Review throughput requirement for shift
- Ensure all production inputs and resources are in place (Staff, machines, materials, dies, weighing scales)

**Controlling (Production)**
- Plant & People declared safe to operate at start-up
- Monitor production flow ito. Plant performance, compliance with safety and health standards, quality, and best-practice requirements
- Identify deviations from required standards and their causes, initiate corrective action
- Monitor production flow ito. Plant performance, compliance with safety and health standards, quality, and best-practice requirements
- Identify deviations from required standards and their causes, initiate corrective action
- Ensure optimum Control Room & Operator liaison - discover and address gaps
- Monitor material batches, discover/ address nonconformances
- Identify and mitigate potential hazards
- Ensure physical security of negotiable items (products, etc
- Oversee Process changes according to varying operating conditions - oversee manual interventions - log such changes and recommend changes

**Documentation**
- Produce reports on variable elements related to production e.g. daily/weekly production, maintenance, safety
- Input production data into system (BOM)
- Produce statutory records as required
- Ensure availability of documents
- Procuring of Local Buyouts

**Leadership**
- Select and appoint team members
- Enable delivery capacity of team members through training, communication and setting clear performance standards
- Implement a performance-enabling environment through working conditions, feedback on actual delivery, support, recognition and reward, fostering teamwork, fairness and other best-practice leadership processes
- Discover sources of workplace conflict and resolve proactively**Inherent Requirements**

**Required Qualifications**
- Tertiary qualification in Production Management or any similar qualification
- 5 years of experience in a similar position with at least 3years in managing a team
- Knowledge within the Hardware or Retail sector would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of IQ Retail System would be advantageous.

**Computer Skills**
- Microsoft Package
- Other Software Packages

**Technical Skills**
- IT Skills
- Numeracy
- Business Acumen
- Relationship Building

**Soft Skills**
- Interpersonal Skills
- Numbers orientated
- Time Management
- Attention to Detail
- Resourcefulness
- Verbal & Written Communication
- Coordination
- Decisions-Making
- Problem Solving
- Analytical Thinking

**What Qualification**
- Production Management

**Minimum Qualification**
- Any

**Status**
- Available


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