Machine Lead

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Kimberly-Clark Full time

Machine Lead

**_ About us_**

Kimberly-Clark is a leading Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Organisation employing more than 42,000 people worldwide.

For more than a century, Kimberly-Clark has transformed ideas into innovative products. ANDREX®, is one of the UK’s most recognisable and celebrated brands, in fact, The Queen granted us a Royal Warrant in 1978 as a mark of recognition that Andrex® is a regular supplier of toilet tissue to the Royal households. Good choice Ma’am.

Other Kimberly Clark brands that we are extremely proud of include; Kleenex®, Scott®, Huggies®, Pull-Ups®, Kotex®, Poise® and Depend®.

Our employees are our most valued resource and are at the centre of everything we do. Their talent, diversity and commitment are crucial to our innovation and success.

We recruit great people. Our trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for nearly one-quarter of the world's population. To maintain this trust and pioneer new products, we seek people who share our passion for excellence, teamwork and original thinking.

Billions worldwide choose our products to make a positive difference in their lives. That's a big responsibility and one we all take seriously.
- In business for almost 50 years
- Nearly one-quarter of the world's population purchase our products every day
- With brands like Andrex, Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Poise and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds the No. 1 or No. 2 brand share in 80 countries

Voted one of The JobCrowd Top 100 Companies for Graduates to work for 2020 you can see how your career will be in safe hands with us.

**Who wouldn’t want to be a part of this?**

**About the Role**

The role of the Machine lead is to lead the machine crew on shift in order to continuously meet and exceed throughput, quality and safety targets.

**What will you be doing?**

**Safety**:

- Ensure compliance to all departmental and plant safety rules and regulations. All non-conformances should be dealt with immediately all unresolved issues must be raised with** Shift Manager**. Follow the correct WSWP and Process Instruction for all tasks performed. Carry out continual development of process optimization to ensure safety.
- Promote a safe working environment through driving compliance with Safety policies and procedures.

**Quality**:

- Ensure all quality issues are reported and logged on the appropriate documentation.
- Continuous monitoring of PASS and coordinating of relevant corrective actions. Maintain a “Run to Target” philosophy at all times.
- Adherence to the Quality Management System by the Shift Crew and targets are met
- Manager Board 0/ 1 & First Off Inspection process
- Manage NCR’s process and coordinate with LCM’s

**Productivity**:

- Leads the crew that runs the machine in order to achieve the target throughput, yield, and uptime without compromising safety and quality by means of using MES/OSI digital platforms.
- Troubleshoots and documents all reasons for waste and delay during the shift, communicate any outstanding items with recommended action plans.
- Participates in all changeovers, ensuring they are performed using good run settings and best practices at all times.
- Continuously monitoring of mill performance on the assets and palletisers and updating performance boards.
- Manage shift resource to achieve production targets for ROO and Waste.
- Controlling of labour to budget levels.
- Manage material consumption on shift to budget levels or better.
- Manage consumption of operating supplies on shift to budget levels or better.
- Manage and co-ordinate problem solving on shift
- Manage ATS - compliance to plan and manage change overs to committed volumes
- Adherence to call out procedure
- Manage completion of Leader Standard Work for self and team

**Housekeeping**
- Maintain 5S housekeeping principles in the department at all times, including all equipment (asset/ palletisers) and surrounds. Ensure all unused items are removed from the operating area and stored correctly.
- Ensure the work area is clean and tidy at shift change, handover with the oncoming Machine lead giving detailed information of machine status.
- Ensures that his crew has housekeeping checklists all they time and that the checks are completed.

**Human resources**
- Manage the operating team on shift to achieve objectives.
- Identify areas of development required for team members to improve individual and team performance.
- Ensure that all departmental guidelines are adhered to by the team.
- Manage and conduct performance management activities for his crew members.
- Facilitate effective one on ones and drive focus development plans.
- Coach and train operators in their respective positions.
- Manage absenteeism through effective, consistently and fairly utilises HR system to correct misconduct
- Manage behaviour of shift crew from shift to shift
- Month end process management on Overtime, Acting allowance etc. with the support of the Asset Leader.
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