Plant Manager

**Job Number**
- 66822**Job Type**
- Permanent**Job Title**
- Plant Manager**Computer Skills**
- ISO 9001,ISO14001,OHSAS 18001**Industry**
- Construction**City**
- East London**Province**
- Eastern Cape- To plan, organize and control the production facility of the East London factory/ plant in order to produce the required quantity of roof tiles and accessories within agreed quality and cost specifications.

**Key roles and responsibilities**

**Roles/Responsibilities % of time spent**
- Production 20%
- Breakages 20%
- Quality 200%
- Safety 10%
- Stock control - inventory management 20%
- People Management 10%
- Financial responsibility:

- 122 million rand
- Or 10 million budget
- Achievement of production targets, deliverables and objectives.

**Job requirements and qualifications**:

- B Tech/ Degree preferably Engineering qualification preferable
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a production/ factory environment.
- Sound electrical and mechanical knowledge.

**Language skills**:

- English & Afrikaans
- Required certificates:Matric

**Additional responsibilities required to fully exercise the function**
- Negotiations with suppliers for high value items from time to time.
- Stores and buying procurement of spares for the factory fall under the Factory Managers control.
- Assist with the investigation of customer complaints

**Functional knowledge**:

- Production Planning - communicate daily with the commercial manager, sales and dispatch planning team to ensure sufficient stock levels are maintained.
- To plan maintenance schedule.
- To assist with problem solving on breakdowns on the main production line.
- Ensure safety levels are optimal and good housekeeping in factory.
- Yard control to plan, organized and control the production facility to produce tiles and fittings of the correct quality and cost at the correct time
- Management of stock levels including critical spares and raw materials and ensure procurement procedures are adhered to.
- Management stock counts and audits with finance and stock/ inventory control in system.
- Manage stock losses and variance tracking, production breakages.
- Negotiate with all suppliers of both raw material and maintenance spares for the timeous supply of materials at the best possible rate
- Maintain good industrial relations, experience within a unionized environment, and adhere to procedures between factory staff and management through the established IR procedures.
- Labour productivity, efficiencies and unit production costs.
- SHEQ Management and compliance with ISO 14001 & ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001
- Develop and motivate production staff to achieve agreed objectives regarding efficiency, quality, industrial relations, health and safety
- Maintain, review and develop the SABS Quality Management System to establish and maintain quality standards
- Controls to manage shrinkage and breakages.
- Management security breaches.
- Ensure implementation of the 5 S system.

**Leadership**:

- Ability to manage unskilled and skilled workforce.
- Excellent communication skills essential
- People management and Problem-solving skills
- Ability to deal with conflict
- Ability to communicate vertically as well as horizontally in the organization
- Problem solving

**Microsoft package & PLC machines (Siemens**)- Lock out procedures are followed.
- Fault finding procedures
- Prioritizing of activities with limited resources available

**Total Quality management**
- High work ethic and integrity
- Strategic thinker
- Good people relations
- Excellent at conflict management
- Ability to deal with difficult situations e.g. strike action
- Performance driven
- Business expertise
- Understanding of both the mechanical and the electrical.
- Understanding of costing
- Understanding of people and productivity costs.

**Area of impact**:

- Ensuring the production team achieves the productivity and efficiency targets.

**Interpersonal skills**:

- Ensure safety talks and safety tours of the factory.
- SHEQ or EHS Manager
- Negotiates with suppliers of critical spares.**Inherent Requirements**
- B Tech/ Degree preferably Engineering qualification preferable
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a production/ factory environment.
- Sound electrical and mechanical knowledge.
- Matric

**What Qualification**
- Engineering**Minimum Qualification**
- Bachelors**Status**
- Available