Production Operations Manager

2 months ago

Paarl, South Africa Multi-Color Corporation Full time

**Build your Career with an Industry Leader**

Multi-Color Corporation manufactures labels for some of the biggest FMCG brand names found on supermarket shelves, bars, restaurants and hotels globally. We also produce premium-quality labels for high-profile brands in the pharmaceutical, durables and home & personal care sectors. Given the fact our labels are applied to wine, spirits, beverage & soft drinks bottles, food packaging, bathroom products, medicine containers, white goods and automotive products, it is likely that you will put your hands on our labels on a daily basis. It is our labels that identify, promote and help sell our customer’s products With 109 manufacturing sites, and 12,000+ employees, we are the Global #1 for prime labels.

We are seeking a knowledgeable and skilled Production Operations Manager. The Production Operations Manager leads and manages all assigned production operations responsibilities for safety, quality, engineering, planning, productivity, people management, cost management and continuous improvement for all production operations and related services. This position serves as strategic leader, coach, and driver of MCC Paarl’s strategic initiatives in the plant.

**The Role**

**In this exciting and varied role, you will**:

- ** Safety**: Champion all aspects of personal and Plant Safety. Instill a sense of self responsibility for safety among employees. Exhibit a safety-first attitude in all that is done and assure the safety of the employees and the safe use of the equipment, including housekeeping and environmental compliance. Lead plant safety team. Personally, comply and ensure employee compliance with all workplace and product safety standards and procedures.
- **Quality**: Optimize the production process to assure that quality is built-in, not inspected in. Quality levels must meet plant requirements. Support quality initiatives and corrective actions to drive a culture that supports our Quality Statement and helps employees learn and improve. Partner with the SHEQ Manager to support quality initiatives and corrective actions. Comply with quality assurance specifications of the customer and MCC including but not limited to handling procedures, paperwork requirements, etc. Compliance with all data integrity, product safety, and all standards required.
- **Operations**: Support the goals of the Plant by developing operational capability and capacity through leveraging technologies, people, continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles as well as data analysis.
- ** Financial**: Help establish and achieve the approved budget of the Plant, including developing and providing justification for the capital expenditures budget of the Plant.
- **Customer Service**: Instill a customer-centered culture for the Plant. Support efforts to achieve excellent on-time and in full performance. Contribute to company and regional cross-functional teams, to achieve the overall effectiveness of customer relationships.
- **Performance Metrics**: Establish, monitor and achieve Plant operating metrics and expense budget. Establish and monitor annual goals and objectives for the plant. Communicate KPI goals. Drive accountability throughout your department(s).
- **Capacity/Throughput**: Manage the capacity and capability of the Plant by working with the Production Planner and various HOD’s to meet customer demands, optimizing profitability and lead time expectations. Minimize WIP between unit operations.
- **People**: Build, develop and manage a high performing team to instill ownership of production objectives through selection, performance assessments, talent management, training, and development of associates down to the production associate level. Lead team to be capable of carrying out the short and long-term strategies of the plant.
- **Lean Manufacturing**: Support a culture of relentless pursuit of continuous improvement. Work with the Lead CI person to coordinate efforts in the plant under the direction of the General Manager. Utilize Lean tools of kaizen, 5S and Gemba to drive improvements
- in operations.
- **Technical Knowledge**: Continually improve the technical knowledge base of processes and new technologies in order to provide cutting-edge offerings to customers.
- **Values**: Model the Corporate Values and True Colours (behaviours) - including instilling a high performance, people-driven culture, providing high expectations and high support.
- **Other**: Additional duties as assigned.

**The Person**

**To succeed in this role you will**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or similar field.
- 10+ years manufacturing experience, with proven ability to effectively lead a well-run, continually improving operations, preferably in the printing/packaging industry.
- Experience with a manufacturing Safety Program required.
- Lean manufacturing experience preferred. Formal certification is a plus.
- Must be strong in Microsoft

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