Manufacturing Excellence Manager

2 weeks ago


Durban, South Africa Unilever Full time

**Job Title**: Manufacturing Excellence Manager
**Department**: Supply Chain
- Manufacturing Excellence (Man Ex)
**Work Level**:WL2
**Location**: Durban, South Africa
**Main Job Purpose**:
The Manufacturing Excellence Manager is responsible for driving manufacturing excellence across a number of factories, by overseeing the implementation of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) and coordinating the WCM activities. S/he also builds a regional/cluster WCM master plan, providing WCM coaching, developing and managing WCM skill, and delivering WCM training in Manufacturing and potential within the Supply Chain.

The Manufacturing Excellence Manager has a direct impact on Manufacturing performance which includes but is not limited to Productivity, Reliability, Cost Improvement, Safety and Quality. S/he would interact directly with Sourcing Unit Directors and their teams, functional experts within the business and external consultants and agencies to align on business objectives and deliver projects/initiatives
**Key Accountabilities**:

- Develop and drive WCM programme deployment, including external audits and Awards Management
- Co-ordinate the self-assessment in preparation for external audits
- Establish a common approach for implementing WCM in the factories, providing coaching, supporting training activities and providing effective knowledge and best practices transfer across the sites.
- Maximize WCM similarities and synergies within the plants, developing action plans for
- Provide direct support for the implementation of site improvement plans
- Research and exploit new continuous improvement tools available in the market, including a strategy for digital manufacturing as an enabler

**Professional Skills**:

- University degree preferred - Engineering
- WCM/TPM/Lean Philosophy training

**Experience Required**:

- 5-year experience in manufacturing
- Appropriate functional / technical expertise.
- Strong WCM/TPM/Lean background is required
- Plant manager
- big size factory
- Senior and ability to manage people
- Continuous improvement experience

**Stakeholders**:

- Sourcing Unit Directors
- Factory Managers (including support functions)
- Category Technology Directors/Managers
- Category Planning Directors/Managers
- VP SC Category



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