Operational Excellence Team Leader

2 weeks ago

Port Elizabeth, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

**Job purpose**
- Oversee operational excellence (OE) activities, developing lean manufacturing and site loss elimination processes, in partnership with line managers and Industrial Engineering and Technical Training team members.
- Support the development of a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture.
- Perform the role of the custodian of standards across the site.

**Responsibilities**

**Planning, section management and reporting**
- Provide input into section’s operational planning, prioritisation of objectives, interpretation and execution of policies and procedures.
- Provide input into and manages budgets and resource requirements.
- Define section strategy, goals, actions required and timelines.
- Provide section staff with day-to-day direction and tasks.
- Ensure that section activities are documented/ captured and filed.
- Develop and track organizational goals/objectives and performance.
- Report on section progress against plans and KPIs.

**Operational excellence leadership**
- Develop operational excellence strategy and cascades into specific business objectives and targets for the various departments.
- Identify key themes required to achieve business objectives.
- Own and improve OE standards, including root cause problem solving formats and SMED, OEE improvement, yield improvement approaches and formats.
- Ensure communication and dissemination of OE information to internal stakeholders.

**Objectives and priorities**
- Establish objectives and priorities for pillar leaders at sites.
- Focus on maintaining and improving integrity of production and QS through machines, equipment, employees and supporting processes using autonomous and progressive maintenance, work process improvement, leadership, and organisation.
- Adopt KPIs; sets standards and targets to assess overall equipment effectiveness, yield, OTIF and NPS.

**Site loss elimination process leadership**
- Identify themes for site loss elimination, aligned with business objectives and targets.
- Establish and drive loss identification and elimination processes.
- Assist departments identify initiatives and create high level implementation plans; oversee related project management.
- Track and report on site loss elimination performance vs. targets

**Organisation coaching and lean improvement**
- Perform process confirmation on the floor, monitoring and auditing standard processes (performance management, SMED)
- Assess the need for, develop and lead or initiate Lean workshops and certification programs.
- Lead major lean improvement projects

**Skills Required**:
**Background/experience**
- Minimum 6 years’ experience in continuous improvement within pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Minimum 3 years leading Team or in a management role
- National Diploma in Engineering
- Formal Business Management or Project Management qualification an advantage.

**Specific job skills**
- Computer literacy
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

**Competencies**
- Meeting Deadlines
- Finalizing Outputs
- Making Decisions
- Customer Awareness
- Interrogating Information

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