Foreman (Manufacturing/Engineering)

1 week ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa People Dimension Full time R70 000 - R140 000 per year

Introduction

A well-established roofing and solar firm based in Cape Town is looking for an experienced Foreman to join their market-leading company. To plan, organize and control the production facility of the Cape Town factory/ plant in order to produce the required quantity of roof tiles and accessories within agreed quality and cost specifications.

Duties & Responsibilities

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.

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 Foremans control.
  • Assist with the investigation of customer complaints

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.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Minimum education:

  • Matric
  • B Tech/ Degree preferably Engineering qualification preferable

Minimum experience:

  • Minimum of 5 years' experience in a production/ factory environment.
  • Sound electrical and mechanical knowledge.

Package & Remuneration

Basic salary R

Car Allowance R6500

Fuel card R4000

Medical Aid 50% employer 50% employee contribution

Provident fund is 21.36% of the basic salary

13th cheque in December

Interested?

Please mail your CV to hr1peopledimension (dot) co (dot) za

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks, if you do not hear from us by then your application for this position was unsuccessful, but you have been added to our database for future vacancies.

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