Manager: Operations

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Weir Group Full time

Job Title: Manager: Foundry

Weir Minerals

Isando

Onsite

Purpose of Role:
Responsible for the timely delivery of high-quality components, ensuring on time, cost effective delivery to an order-based production plan.

Why choose Weir:
Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge - but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

- Safety First:

- Maintain the safety of all systems and processes in the Isando Foundry and implement world class safety practices as guided by the Health and Safety department and senior management
- Ensure that the Foundry complies to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (Act 85: 1993)
- Leadership:

- Ensure effective leadership across multi-shift teams, maintaining a focus on internal customer delivery
- Manage the technical development of the Foundry including yield improvements, new parts and material industrialisation
- Achieves financial objectives by forecasting needs, preparing a budget, and managing expenditures.
- Guides problem solving activities, applying, and coaching principles to others; models and trains principles of continuous improvement.
- Production:

- Ensure continuous improvement of the manufacturing processes in order to reduce waste and increase productivity
- Implement and improve on world class error proofing and quality control systems to prevent defects from reaching the customer
- Maintain the Foundry expense budget, including manning calculations, shift control, over-time control and raw material costs
- Maintain and improve the Foundry throughput through machine utilisation management, production routing and Bill of material control, management of down time, implementation of quick changeover processes etc.
- Work with the planning department to effectively schedule and manage the capacity of the Foundry
- Maintain the integrity of the ISO 9001: 2008 quality assurance system within the Foundry, including product traceability
- Implement and maintain Make to Stock (MTS) and Make to Order (MTO) pull systems
- Technical:

- Digitize and covert manual processes
- Ensure continuous process optimization and improvements
- Project manage new part / process introductions and industrialisation process
- Estimate method and process steps to determine product costs
- More efficient gating system, to improve yield and save costs
- Yield savings, continuous cost saving and efficiency improvement

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

- Relevant Technical Qualification
- Certified qualification in Metallurgy, Pattern Making etc. applicable to the Foundry Industry
- 5 - 8 years’ experience in the Management of a Foundry sand casting process involving more than 25 Employees
- 5 - 8 years’ experience with patternmaking, methoding, physical metallurgy and or heat treatment of ferrous alloys.
- 4 years’ experience with actively managing a continuous improvement programme
- Manufacturing, TQM, Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing
- 2 Years’ experience as a Legally Appointed Section 16.2

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.
- Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status._

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