Group Leader Production Rotary

**Job Number**
- 72642

**Job Type**
- Permanent

**Job Title**
- Group Leader Production Rotary

**Computer Skills**
- MS Office

**Industry**
- Manufacturing

**City**
- Ekurhuleni (East Rand)

**Province**
- Gauteng
- Reporting to Operations Manager (Rotary Plant)- Direct Reportees: 4XShift Team Leader- Indirect Reportees: 4XKiln Operators; 8 x Kiln Attendant; 4 x FEL Drivers- Department: Production Rotary Plant- Accountabilities:
- Financial Perspective:
- Identify operational, labour and capex requirements within Production Rotary Plant for efficient delivery of targets and submit recommendations to the Operations manager
- Review and authorise payments within limits of authority and in line with approved budget and policy and submit for final processing
- Order consumables for Production Rotary Plant functions per plant needs and priorities within budgetary provisions
- Calculate raw material requirements to meet rotary output objectives per customer orders taking into account transformation of raw materials through plant production processes kiln process factors
- Obtain quotations from service providers as these relate to Production Rotary Plant and/or development, evaluate quotations and make recommendations to the Operations manager
- Ensure Production Rotary Plant functions work within disciplines of efficiency and cost-effectiveness to minimise/eliminate waste, rework and break downs
- Internal Business Process Perspective:
- Establish/develop Production Rotary Plant checklists to ensure production processes are thoroughly, regularly and routinely actioned per daily and weekly plans received from customer purchase orders
- Calculate raw material inputs for production processes
- Update production boards manually and develop spreadsheets to record, track and monitor production activities and key metrics
- Articulate in production meetings engineering-related problems and provide value-added inputs drawing on production knowledge, skills and experience
- Participate actively in plant conditioning monitoring processes, and take appropriate action and/or make recommendations for problem resolution/improvement to plant/production management?
- Solve routine Production Rotary Plant problems by gathering data, analysing data, identifying patterns and trends, drawing conclusions and formulating actions to be taken, referring as required to line management where decision needs to be escalated
- Deploy people and resources within limits of authority to address production targets (and problems) in the Production Rotary Plant production process safely and cost-effectively for continued plant efficiency and availability
- Ensure safety through the implementation of and adherence to safety policies and housekeeping practices, safety audits
- Make use of approved third party resources as required to support Production Rotary Plant production through properly constituted, approved. contractual arrangements - to meet production targets and deadlines (e.g. kiln maintenance services)
- Customer Perspective:
- Interact closely with customer purchase orders to understand Production Rotary Plant capacity and other requirements to meet weekly and other planning objectives
- Participate actively and constructively in Production Rotary Plant production meetings and forums to articulate production issues and priorities, by drawing on technical knowledge, skills and experience
- Ensure engineering support understands Production Rotary Plant productions needs and priorities through close partner shipping, and through appropriate problem and root-cause analysis for correct technical diagnoses
- Make relevant inputs into supplier and other service stakeholder contracts to ensure continuity of supplies and services for Production Rotary Plant at required standards and at cost-effective rates
- Engage closely with suppliers to ensure high-value/high-impact raw material supplies meet Production Rotary Plant production needs and priorities
- Organisation and Growth Perspective:
- Allocate work to direct reports as required and provide appropriate level of supervision, control and/or delegation in the Production Rotary Plan production environment drawing on situational leadership and supervisory techniques
- Take remedial action as appropriate to ensure quality of work outputs are consistently, safely and cost-effectively sustained to meet Production Rotary Plant production goals and objectives
- Review proactively performance of direct reports in terms of performance agreement, and participatively discuss performance successes and gaps, agreeing performance improvement action plans and deliverables
- Standard Accountabilities:
- Complete all relevant tasks as per work instruction
- Ensure that all tasks are completed in a safe manner
- Maintain high quality standard for all tasks carried out
- Executes on specific deliverables
- Demonstrate behaviors in line with the Company's Values
- Contribute to a safe and healthy work envir