Head of Operations Manufacturing
3 days ago
**Head of Operations - Manufacturing**
**Salary: R700-800K Per Annum CTC**
**Purpose of Position**:
Complement Recruitment are recruiting for a Head of Operations for a Chemical Manufacturing plant in eThekwini, Durban, Kwazulu Natal. The purpose of this role is to lead safe and efficient operations of South Africa plant to achieve customer satisfaction, while ensuring optimum utilization of the plant. This position reports directly into the Country Head and Global Operations Head, with 5 direct Senior Management reports.
**Minimum Requirements**:
- Matric, B-Tech. or Engineering Degree - Mechanical, Polymer, Chemical)
- Experience in Operations and Maintenance of chemical, plastics or similar manufacturing plant operations
- 12- 15 years of experience in a Senior Management/Executive role
- Role specific competencies: Customer Focus, Planning & Aligning Change, Achievement Orientation & drive for results, Leadership, Analysis and Decision Making
Skills And Knowledge:
- Setting directions, plans & priorities for the Plant Operations
- Building robust systems in all processes for operational excellence
- Continuous improvement in systems and processes for executing customer orders
- Continuous strengthening of Safety & Autonomous Maintenance system
- Facilitating cooperation and & communication in the unit.
**Duties**:
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Ensure plant operations as per budgeted level
- Develops, implements, and maintains sound business practices
- Implement manufacturing strategies & actions for the accomplishment of plant targets
- Ensuring continuous up gradation of quality systems
- Ensuring high uptime of the plant
- Ensuring efficiencies in line with budget
- Ensuring Production Planning & Control is in line with customer needs
- Responsible for ensuring that the cost of production at the plant is amongst lowest
- Responsible for creating standards that will exceed our Customer expectations.
- Ensure problem solving process & new techniques are used to excel the budgeted levels.
- Budgeted production (MT)
- COC of plant
- Customer complaints - Quality
- Control Point: Compensation on account of Quality
Ensure New Products Are Developed & Stabilized
- Evaluation of new products which can be developed in the existing plant in coordination with marketing & NPD
through:
- Process parameters change
- Through new technology route
- Through Raw material change
- Control Point: Develop VAPs
Ensuring A Safe Working Environment
- Developing systems (including safety systems) and processes for the plant to achieve safe operation
- Ensure all safety practices are implemented and followed.
- Create an incident free environment
- Reportable Incident
- Ensuring optimum use of talent of manpower
- Control Point: Help in attracting the best of the technical talent from the industry
Ensuring Along With HR Optimum Utilization Of Manpower Resources In The Plant
- Along with HR plays a crucial role in maintaining harmonious relationship in the plant & implementing values and engagement of Team
- Develop formal and informal channels of communication across levels to capture feelings & sentiments of people.
- Control Point: Number of people to hire (budget vs actual)
Statutory Compliance
- Timely Compliance to all statutory acts.
- Carry out Periodic reviews & ensure information flow to auditors at local & Corporate level
- Control Point: Zero Non Compliance
Team Work
- Motivates the team reporting to him, challenges them with stretched targets and reviews their performances
- Enable the team to efficiently handle plant by training and coaching the team
- Control Point: Number of successful Improvement Projects
Ensuring The Process Orientation Through TQM & IMS Practices
- Encourage & facilitate team to implement TQM way of working
- Ensure that TQM progress plans are created, deployed.
- Monitor & Review the progress
- Institutionalizing best practices and systems under IMS comprising of ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 and ISO14001
- Control Point: Successful execution of TQM Projects and themes
Ensure That All The Identified Projects Are Implemented
- Identify & develop projects in collaboration with Head-Global Operations for improvement in Plant efficiency
- Learn & understand best practices from the organisation & other plants.
- Allocate resources, align Teams for timely execution.
- Monitor & review the progress
- Contribute to Decision making as ULT member for improvement initiatives & people engagement.
- Variance to Project Plan
- Control Point: Improvements through Projects in COC
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**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent
**Salary**: R700,000.00 - R800,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- Matric, B-Tech. or Engineering Degree - Mechanical, Polymer, Chemical)
- Experience in Operations and Maintenance of chemical, plastics or similar manufacturing plant operations
- 12- 15 years of experience in a Senior Management/Executive role
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