Workshop Supervisor
1 month ago
**Job Details**
Job Title
Workshop Supervisor
Business Unit
Geographic Location
Sasolburg, South Africa
Name & Title of Direct Superior - Workshop Manager
Number of Immediate Subordinates - 14
Total number of Subordinates - N/A
**Main Purpose of Job**
- To manage shop floor personnel, material & machines to manufacture designed products within budget to customer requirements.
- Provide a safe working environment for workshop personnel.
**Accountabilities**
1 Co-ordinate sequence of manufacture, verify all material received for manufacturing, to ensure that there are no delays in the manufacturing of products within agreed time framework and within estimated costs.
2 Calculate / estimate material and resources required for the order to ensure the job is manufactured within estimated costs to ensure correct margins is achieved.
3 Purchase material and subcontract work in time to ensure no delays occur and jobs are delivered on time
4 Hand over the drawings, WDP, material, hours provided, assignment and feedback to artisans to the effect that work is carried out to set standards within agreed time framework.
5 Quality control, coaching and monitor welding processes, Check & verify products ready for dispatch, liaise with inspectors & NDT technicians to ensure the risk is minimized and the workshop standards meet Howden Standards & customer requirements.
6 Manage workshop personnel, i.e., leave, personnel problems, training requirements, interviews & discipline. Prepare overtime list. Sign & check time sheets & doctor’ s notes to ensure staff are motivated, positive, focused & well informed.
7 Ensure & implement environmental, health and safety standards to ensure that the company comply with relevant legislation requirements and company policies to provide a safe working environment to all employees.
8 Monitor & control departmental expenditures to ensure that the department meets or exceeds the annual purchasing budget.
10 Maintain a maintenance schedule on all machines.
11 Maintain all workers qualifications to ensure they are qualified to do the required work.
SOX Compliance: Adhere to Sarbanes Oxley and AX controls
**Dimensions**
Financial:
Yearly budget for department
**Skills, Knowledge & Experience**
**ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**
- Qualified Fitter and Turner.
- Workshop supervision in a fitting and manufacturing environment
- 5 years in similar position
- Industrial engineering experience
- Expert proficiency in interpretation of drawings and subsequent calculation of material and process requirements.
- Coaching skills
- Needs expert understanding of the tools / machines used for the various functions.
- Computer literate (Intermediate level)
**DESIRABLE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**:
- Formal draftsman qualification
- Formal qualification in mechanical engineering
- Labour relations
- NDT processes
- Inspection techniques
**BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES**
- Good communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Leadership
- Self-disciplined
- Listen Attentively to workforce.
- Guiding and Developing Others
- Safety Awareness
- Stress Tolerance
- Patient
- Good Conflict Management Skills
- Time Management
- Working under pressure
- Positive attitude
- Self-starter
**Complexity and Creativity**
- Complexity factors:
- Planning is done by others, often impractical.
- Drawings often technically very complicated.
- People management - dealing with staff issues on an ongoing basis whilst keeping staff motivated & effective.
- Produce the product to the right specifications and on time to meet the customer approval.
- Creativity:
- Various opportunities to improve production processes (more practical and more cost effective).
- Preplanning, creating control measures, tracking systems of jobs and ongoing monitoring.
- Weekly communication meeting with workshop personnel
- Continuous exercise, checking liaison with inspectors.
- Capability of interacting with a diversity of people
**Judgement and Decisions**
- Judgements:
- Who and when to deploy staff / machines / equipment to meet output targets.
- Personnel
- When to increase/ reduce numbers, disciplinary hearings, skilled people going on retirement, understanding employee profile (ages, skills matrix)
Decisions
- Staff management - training, discipline, performance management, leave and day to day issues.
- Approval of overtime work & timecards
- Quality issues to be rectified with approval from Manufacturing Manager
- Recruitment of personnel
- Assessment of KRA’S for workshop personnel
- Internal expenditure within budget without referral
**Contacts**
Internal
- Manufacturing Manager, planner, to issue jobs for manufacture and to provide feedback on progress of jobs.
- Draftsmen, project engineers for drawings clarification & progress feedback
- Human resources for services needed.
- Quality Departments for ITP’S, audits & inspectors
External
- External inspectors & auditors to provide required information
**Travel**
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