Team Leader

**Overview**:
Managing the entire shift for respective area responsible for in terms of people, the process and plant. All activities, roles and responsibilities are aligned to the world class (manufacturing) philosophy, principles and practices.

**Qualifications**:

- Matric (Maths and Science)
- Degree / BTech or Diploma in related industry

**Experience**:

- 5-8 years’ experience in related industry (Chemical Industry)
- Previous experience in team management

**Duties**:
**Drive high performance targets with the team**
- Conduct shift meeting and performance review
- Identify deviations, their root causes and take corrective action
- Ensure cross functional team have good synergies
- Review expense report and corrects deviations
- Correct performance deviations
- Communicate progress to performance indicators to all levels
- Ensure reliability and dependability of processes
- Optimise Shift production throughput
- Ensure stability of processes
- Managing costs according to budget

**Effective People Management**
- Coaching, structured training such as PTO's, structured meetings, JO's
- Frequent engagement
- Audits, spot checks, checklists, communicates company rules and regulations to team
- Ensure and develop team competency
- Ensure morale of team
- Manage team performance through performance management processes, i.e. ER & EDD
- Enforce company rules and regulations
- Resource management (leave, etc.)

**To ensure Quality adherence on shift**
- Monitor and take corrective action on quality deviations
- Audits, spot checks, checklists, communicates ISO standards
- Ensure product is on specification
- Ensure ISO compliance of all activities

**Oversee plant conditions and general plant availability enabling the production of good quality product**
- Oversee shifts as well as maintenance and shutdowns
- Manage stock and production declaration

**Adequate & systematic Administration**
- Proper written communication and interpretation
- Network with support functions to resolve human capital, process and plant related issues

**Oversee the loading of trucks and count of stock in staging area**
- Documentation of loads loading out
- Supervision of Plant Operators
- Stocktaking

**Job Competencies**:
**Knowledge**
- Familiar / Competent in Microsoft Office
- Competent CRS Payroll Solutions

**Core Behavioural Competencies**
- Decision making
- Teamwork
- Work standards
- Reliability
- Motivation of self and others
- Adaptability
- Problem-solving
- Integrity and trust
- Communication skills
- Planning and organization
- Stress tolerance
- Initiative
- Building relationships

**Functional / Technical Competency**
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Facilitation / Meetings
- Effective Change Management
- Brand Knowledge
- Product
- Conflict Management
- Product Knowledge
- Root-cause analysis
- Excellent Customer Service

**Cross-Functional Competency**
- Collaboration

**Leadership Competency**
- Drive for Results
- Strategic Agility
- Motivating Others

**General**:

- Critical thinking, In depth process knowledge
- SHEQ knowledge, PSM knowledge
- Behaviour Analysis knowledge, assertiveness, discipline
- Articulate communicator, Good collaborator, Good listener, Good meeting etiquette
- Technical expertise
- Leadership skills
- Teamwork, EQ, Empathy, Problem solving
- In depth knowledge of company rules and regulations
- Analytical thinking
- In depth knowledge of ISO standards
- Numeracy & Literacy (BTech level)
- Autonomous maintenance
- 5S Practice