Production Planner

7 months ago


Midrand, South Africa Unique Personnel Full time

**Job Number**
- 72941

**Job Type**
- Permanent

**Job Title**
- Production Planner

**Computer Skills**
- MS Office

**Industry**
- Automotive

**City**
- Midrand

**Province**
- Gauteng
- Make important policy, planning, and strategy decisions.
- Create and implement organisational /production changes on an operative level.
- Identify and address problems and opportunities for the company.
- Develop, implement and review operational policies and procedures.
- Manage and support SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment and Quality) initiatives and objectives.
- Analyse/ control production costs and identify/rectify waste measures.
- Cost management of products and assist with new product costings models.
- Manage use of raw materials to meet production targets as set out weekly in forecasts.
- Analyse budgets and continuously control production costs and rectify waste measures.
- Manage all activities within the production process, including maintenance and the workforce.
- Manage all teams within your production departments and the communication between the workshop and upper management.
- Monitor reasons for absenteeism and minimise the impact on production, liaising with HR.
- Create and maintain contingency plans in the event of interruptive production.
- Implement standard operating procedures.
- Determine training needs of staff members.
- Create and implement organisational/production changes on an operative level.
- Focus on growing business and revenue by implementing necessary changes to product/production line to enter new markets or grow existing territories.
- Ramp up production to ensure the company is operating at required capacity.
- Manage customer and internal quality standards, liasing with Quality Manager
- Responsible for ensuring cleanliness in all production areas.
- Prepare the production areas for factory inspections and audits.
- Liaise with the Store manager and Procurement to ensure a smooth supply of raw materials to the production line.**Inherent Requirements**
- Leadership.
- Understanding of policy, planning, and strategy.
- Ability to develop, implement and review policies and procedures.
- Understanding of necessary legal and regulatory documents.
- Ability to address problems and opportunities for the company.
- Excellent communication, numeracy and computer literacy skills.
- Good people management skills and management of staff.
- 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 orientated
- Working well with many different departments
- Always keeping the end-user/customer in mind
- Being results and deadline driven.
- Strong business sense and industry expertise

**What Qualification**

**Minimum Qualification**
- Certificate

**Status**
- Pending / Unavailable


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