Production Team Leader

**Job Number**
- 72428

**Job Type**
- FT Contract

**Job Title**
- Production Team Leader

**Computer Skills**
- Syspro

**Industry**
- Manufacturing

**City**
- Ekurhuleni (East Rand)

**Province**
- Gauteng
- Reports to Group Leader**Role Summary**
- The Team Leader is responsible for leading and motivating a production shift.
- Ensuring production targets are achieved while maintaining safety and quality standards and promotes sound employee relations and employee development and training.

**Accountabilities**

**Position Accountabilities**:

- Shop floor Industrial Relations including discipline and grievance handling (refer to Recognition agreement, Grievance, Code of conduct and Disciplinary procedure)
- Develop training matrix for team (refer to training procedure)
- Conduct competency declarations and documentation
- New employee and 2 yearly induction refreshers for existing employees (refer to induction procedure)
- Coach and training team members in accordance with standardized work procedures

**Role Accountabilities**:

- Demonstrate behaviors in line with company CORE Values
- Implementing ergonomics and corporate safety standards and procedures and ensure compliance (refer to company safety policy, procedure, and standards)
- Ensure full compliance of the company Group and local safety standards, policies, and procedures.
- Report risks and opportunities for improvement related to duties
- Ensure work permits are issued in accordance to procedure

**Position Responsibilities**:

- Conducting safety audits
- Incident investigations
- Report SIO’s
- Housekeeping - adherence to standards.
- Reporting safety performance
- Ensure adherence to quality plan and Lead line PPS
- Report quality performance (LOI and BD Charts)
- Conduct quality process testing (on a relief basis)
- Sample preparation and testing (on a relief basis)
- Ensures production targets are met
- Track and monitor shift production output and Actions variations
- Implement Lean tools and techniques, 5S, 7 wastes, Value stream mapping and line balancing
- Supervision/Manage of waste material and feedback report to GL weekly
- Routine checks on production members
- Reports production performance

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Effective record keeping and reporting (daily / monthly reports and production forecasts and targets)
- Manage team attendance and leave of absence (refer to time and attendance / leave procedure)
- Ensure all employees comply with the health and safety standards in terms of PPE
- Green card system lodging for any breakdown and following up of green cards.
- Ensure that all machinery, production vehicles, equipment are safe to use before start of shift.
- Keep all equipment running by inspecting and performing basic maintenance prestart check list
- Understand the formula (SIN/COS/TAN) needed for type calculation.
- Be able to adjust as quickly as possible to minimize downtime.
- Inspect machinery and work piece to ensure that they remain compliant with specifications to reduce any malfunctions and associated loss of production.
- Ensure the plant month end stock take is completed accurately in time and all deviations flagged and addressed.
- Manage and control the warehouse stock by using warehouse stock management system and report on any deviations or abnormalities to the Group Leader and ensure follow up.

**Reporting**
- Report all potential risks to the Group Leader.
- Report faulty or damaged machinery immediately to the Group Leader.
- Report any material shortages to Group Leader.**Inherent Requirements**

**Qualifications and Experience Required Minimum Education / Training**
- Senior Certificate and or equivalent NQF Level 4.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Manufacturing environment.
- Computer literacy (Microsoft package and Syspro).
- Strong hand on individual and team player

**What Qualification**

**Minimum Qualification**
- Certificate

**Status**
- Available