Production Manager- Durban

1 day ago


Durban, South Africa Pro Talent Full time

**Engineering & Technical ~ Management**
**KZN***:**Production Manager - Durban**

We are looking for someone to oversee the manufacturing process within a company and to ensure that production lines run without any problems and minimum downtime. Working together with supervisors and top management, they also need to ensure that a certain quality and standard are adhered to throughout the production process.

**Duties**
- Manage and support SHEQ ( Safety, health, Environment and quality) initiatives and objectives.
- Define, propose, and implement the annual production.
- Cost management of products through meeting timelines and reducing of overtime.
- Analyze/ control production costs and identify/rectify waste measures.
- Manage all activities within the production process, including maintenance and the workforce.
- Oversee (High level) logistics, warehousing and stock of raw materials used in production.
- Manage all teams within your production departments and the connection / communication between the factory and upper management.
- Create and implement organisational/production changes on an operative level.

**Required Skills**:

- Excellent communication, numeracy, and computer literacy skills.
- Good people management skills and management of staff.
- Identifying problems and implement preventative strategies to minimize risk.
- Being able to develop good working relationships and trust with various teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills, analytic ability and be very detail-oriented.
- Working well with many different departments and external suppliers.
- Always keeping the end-user/customer in mind.
- Being results and deadline-driven.



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