Manufacturing Operations Manager

1 week ago


Blackheath, South Africa Employment Concepts Full time

**Reporting to**:Business Head

**Location**:Blackheath, Western Cape

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operations Manager to join a young and dynamic team in a fast-paced working environment. The Operations Manager will play a pivotal role in leading all manufacturing functions, ensuring the consistent production of high-quality products that meet customer expectations.

**Key Responsibilities**

**People Responsibility**:

- Develop, design, lead, and mentor a young production team, emphasizing accountability and people effectiveness.
- Foster best practices, create a successful work culture, and build team morale and prosperity.
- Plan structures, implement best practice scheduling, and optimize plant available hours.
- Strong knowledge of disciplinary process and industrial relations and ability to work with Human Resources in order to embed disciplinary code of conduct.

**Manufacturing**:

- Lead manufacturing, supply chain, and procurement teams towards achieving strategic targets.
- Develop, design, and implement programs to build efficiencies, create capacities, and reduce costs and wastage.
- Monitor, improve, and report on key performance metrics, asset health, people planning and development, operational opportunities, and efficiencies.
- Responsible for facility, capacity, and capex planning and development.
- Asset care and maintenance of all plant and equipment.

**Procurement and Supply Chain**
- Manage inventory Levels and ensure best practices on ordering and management of stock.
- Liaise and communicate with Suppliers on quality, technical and material specifications.
- Lead and co-ordinate Procurement team to drive efficiency, cost savings and compliance.

**Technical and Compliance**:

- Ensure legislative and regulatory compliance, including but not limited to food safety, health & safety, quality control, environmental, and asset management.
- Develop technical, analytical, monitoring, and reporting frameworks with related systems and databases.
- Collaborate with the manufacturing team and supporting functions to ensure competence development and knowledge sharing activities.

**Financial Management**:

- Manage all manufacturing costs to enable the lowest cost production and optimal asset utilization.
- Conduct maintenance reviews, capex reviews, and cost of labor analysis.
- Budgets and cost planning.

**Business Planning**
- Emergency Preparedness
- Business Continuity
- Insurance Reviews
- Total Site Housekeeping
- Waste Management

Behavioural Competencies:

- Self-motivated with a strong passion for working in a factory setting.
- Ability to drive change for improvement and motivate staff to embrace change.
- Relationship building with staff within the factory and stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail, advanced documentation system orientation, and solid planning and organizational skills.
- Focused, self-motivated, agile, and results-driven with high personal standards.
- Clear and confident communication, providing feedback as required.

Basic Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge
- Relevant Degree/Diploma in Operations Management will be required.
- At least 10 years’ experience in the FMCG industry
- At least 8 years’ experience in an Operations/Production management role, Supplementary advanced training in Food Safety Systems would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of technical processes, procedures, and requirements of food manufacturing processes.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office

Application Question(s):

- Do you have a valid driver's license and own a vehicle?

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Food and Beverage Industry: 8 years (preferred)
- Operations Management: 8 years (preferred)
- People Management: 8 years (preferred)
- Microsoft Office: 10 years (required)
- Demand Planning: 8 years (preferred)
- Project management software: 8 years (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (required)
- Afrikaans (preferred)

Ability to Commute:

- Blackheath, Western Cape (required)

Willingness to travel:

- 25% (preferred)

Application Deadline: 2024/03/30


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