Workshop Supervisor

**Job Details**

Job Title

Workshop Supervisor

Business Unit

Geographic Location

Sasolburg, South Africa

Name & Title of Direct Superior - Workshop Manager

Number of Immediate Subordinates - 14

Total number of Subordinates - N/A

**Main Purpose of Job**
- To manage shop floor personnel, material & machines to manufacture designed products within budget to customer requirements.
- Provide a safe working environment for workshop personnel.

**Accountabilities**

1 Co-ordinate sequence of manufacture, verify all material received for manufacturing, to ensure that there are no delays in the manufacturing of products within agreed time framework and within estimated costs.

2 Calculate / estimate material and resources required for the order to ensure the job is manufactured within estimated costs to ensure correct margins is achieved.

3 Purchase material and subcontract work in time to ensure no delays occur and jobs are delivered on time

4 Hand over the drawings, WDP, material, hours provided, assignment and feedback to artisans to the effect that work is carried out to set standards within agreed time framework.

5 Quality control, coaching and monitor welding processes, Check & verify products ready for dispatch, liaise with inspectors & NDT technicians to ensure the risk is minimized and the workshop standards meet Howden Standards & customer requirements.

6 Manage workshop personnel, i.e., leave, personnel problems, training requirements, interviews & discipline. Prepare overtime list. Sign & check time sheets & doctor’ s notes to ensure staff are motivated, positive, focused & well informed.

7 Ensure & implement environmental, health and safety standards to ensure that the company comply with relevant legislation requirements and company policies to provide a safe working environment to all employees.

8 Monitor & control departmental expenditures to ensure that the department meets or exceeds the annual purchasing budget.

10 Maintain a maintenance schedule on all machines.

11 Maintain all workers qualifications to ensure they are qualified to do the required work.

SOX Compliance: Adhere to Sarbanes Oxley and AX controls

**Dimensions**

Financial:
Yearly budget for department

**Skills, Knowledge & Experience**

**ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**
- Qualified Fitter and Turner.
- Workshop supervision in a fitting and manufacturing environment
- 5 years in similar position
- Industrial engineering experience
- Expert proficiency in interpretation of drawings and subsequent calculation of material and process requirements.
- Coaching skills
- Needs expert understanding of the tools / machines used for the various functions.
- Computer literate (Intermediate level)

**DESIRABLE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**:

- Formal draftsman qualification
- Formal qualification in mechanical engineering
- Labour relations
- NDT processes
- Inspection techniques

**BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES**
- Good communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Leadership
- Self-disciplined
- Listen Attentively to workforce.
- Guiding and Developing Others
- Safety Awareness
- Stress Tolerance
- Patient
- Good Conflict Management Skills
- Time Management
- Working under pressure
- Positive attitude
- Self-starter

**Complexity and Creativity**
- Complexity factors:

- Planning is done by others, often impractical.
- Drawings often technically very complicated.
- People management - dealing with staff issues on an ongoing basis whilst keeping staff motivated & effective.
- Produce the product to the right specifications and on time to meet the customer approval.
- Creativity:

- Various opportunities to improve production processes (more practical and more cost effective).
- Preplanning, creating control measures, tracking systems of jobs and ongoing monitoring.
- Weekly communication meeting with workshop personnel
- Continuous exercise, checking liaison with inspectors.
- Capability of interacting with a diversity of people

**Judgement and Decisions**
- Judgements:

- Who and when to deploy staff / machines / equipment to meet output targets.
- Personnel
- When to increase/ reduce numbers, disciplinary hearings, skilled people going on retirement, understanding employee profile (ages, skills matrix)

Decisions
- Staff management - training, discipline, performance management, leave and day to day issues.
- Approval of overtime work & timecards
- Quality issues to be rectified with approval from Manufacturing Manager
- Recruitment of personnel
- Assessment of KRA’S for workshop personnel
- Internal expenditure within budget without referral

**Contacts**
Internal
- Manufacturing Manager, planner, to issue jobs for manufacture and to provide feedback on progress of jobs.
- Draftsmen, project engineers for drawings clarification & progress feedback
- Human resources for services needed.
- Quality Departments for ITP’S, audits & inspectors

External
- External inspectors & auditors to provide required information

**Travel**
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