Deputy Factory Manager

2 weeks ago

Vereeniging, South Africa Victoria Devereux International Full time

Level of Work: Senior Management

**Direct report (solid line)**: Factory Manager

**Direct report (dotted line)**:Chief Executive Officer

**Minimum Education required**:NQF Level 6/7 Degree in an Engineering discipline - Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or Metallurgy

Qualification in financial management is advantageous.

**Minimum Experience required**:5 years post qualification engineering or process experience in FMCG or mining industry.

**Purpose of the Role**:The main responsibility of the **Deputy Factory Manager **is to ensure the production processes deliver products of maximum quality in a cost-effective, safe and reliable manner, while maintaining the factory assets in a cost-effective way to ensure safe and reliable production. The deputy factory manager is also responsible to lead and manage the process and maintenance function for the factory in terms of execution of strategic direction, resources, and process excellence.

**Primary Responsibilities**

Task & responsibilities

**Development of asset preservation strategy**
- Assist the Factory Manager with the development and execution of the asset preservation strategy, AM objectives and operational plans.
- Review and Make recommendations for the asset register remaining useful and compare to current asset condition to determine the remaining preservation strategy.
- Evaluate previous year budget and expenses to determine the following years maintenance budget and Asset preservation strategy.
- Review the performance of the plant for the previous year to identify shortfalls, recommend and implement focused initiatives to improve performance.

**Implementation of asset preservation strategy**
- Define and implement maintenance standards for the department to ensure cost -effective and safe maintenance execution.
- Translate the asset preservation strategy and AM objectives into plans, budgets and KPIs for the maintenance function and ensure the right skills set are identified to execute these plans.
- Allocate the budgets and performance targets to the relevant department heads.

**Management of Maintenance effectiveness**
- Oversee the effective execution of preventive and reactive maintenance work on the factories assets to optimize their performance at mínimal cost and risk.
- Evaluate the work orders for the week (status; backlog; schedule; compliance; performance) and address any problems with the relevant department heads.
- Review and monitor the cost of maintenance (SAP & Excel maintenance sheet) and address any problems with the relevant department heads.
- Evaluate critical plant/equipment status to implement a scheduled maintenance plan.

**Drive quality and eliminate defects through continuous improvement.**
- Drive continuous improvement in process and maintenance (KPI review meetings; defect elimination; small projects; recognition).
- Records all continuous improvement tasks/opportunities.
- Prioritise, plan and resource CI projects.
- Ensures the master tile specifications are valid.
- Analyse the customers complaints to ensure the QC system is preventing defects reaching your customers.
- Monitor daily/weekly QC inspection from the Lab to identify problems and recommend solutions.
- Identify issues in inefficiencies and suggest improvements.

**Lead, Manage and direct People.**
- Manage and lead the team.
- Facilitate daily department coordinators operational meeting (Previous day performance, discuss key constraints and risk and agree on the daily plan).
- Source and manage relationships with external and internal suppliers, OEM, shared resources.
- Organize workflow by assigning responsibilities and preparing schedules.
- Determine the action plans and targets in line with sales order book.
- Overseeing and coaching (process and support) personnel for the development of future leadership of the business.
- Ensure that new joiners are trained and developed to work on factory equipment.
- Identify, train, and equip employees to work effectively and efficiently.
- Ensure that individual development plans are in place for all critical and key roles.
- Enforce and manage non
- conformances to company policies and procedures, guidelines, and company standards.

**Safety, Health and Environment**
- Ensure compliance to SHERQ regulations and system.
- Monitor and ensure (Monthly, weekly, quarterly, and annual) safety inspections are done and records kept.
- Plans and coordinates Internal & External audits (ISO9001; OHS Audit; Risk audit).
- Monitor time attendance (overtime, time worked, absenteeism) and address problem areas with responsible department coordinators.
- Monitor SHEQR indicators and address problem areas with responsible department coordinators.
- Ensure the safe use and regular maintenance of process equipment.

**Management of process**
- Set daily/ weekly/ monthly production objectives and communicate with relevant team members.
- Check and ensure production outputs are according to specifications.
- Schedule

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