Job Title: Production Manager
Company:TAC Recruitment
Job description: Leading chemical manufacturing company is seeking to employ a Production Manager for the manufacturing operations consisting of run 3 powder lines and 4 liquid lines.Responsibilities:
- Carefully and accurately conduct production planning to ensure required minimum and target stock levels are maintained at all times
- Evaluate and factor in MRP sales forecasts in production planning for the month ahead and prioritises critical and unforeseen issues according to strict timelines
- 3Create ad manage production schedules for on-time products completion
- Partner with Procurement to ensure that all required and relevant raw materials are on-hand in sufficient quantities and available.
- Partner with Dispatch to ensure required stock is on-hand and ready for delivery to customers with no delays, distinguishing between local and export packaging & labelling requirements as per customer specifications.
- Partner with Quality to ensure that quality standards are prioritised and adhered to
- Ensure all OHS and quality standards are met, conduct ad-hoc inspections to ensure adherence to OHS and Quality standards and aim to achieve an incident free operation
- Effectively manage the fault-finding process in cases where a product tests “out-of-specification”
- Pro-actively evaluate production equipment and schedule regular maintenance for equipment to ensure continued production and minimal downtime.
- Proactively manage the production team by ensuring adequate scheduling of staff and setting daily productivity goals for each production line
- Motivate, support and train production staff to ensure they are equipped and able to produce the required products at the expected quality standard
- Maintain up to date and accurate production records, ensure metrics, reports, and production documentation is available.
- Ensure efficiency during the production process and implement improvements to the production process when required with the approval of the relevant senior manager.
- Continually evaluate production workflow procedures to identify areas where efficiency can be improved without compromising safety or quality
- Analyse budgets and continuously control production costs and identify/rectify waste measures.
Requirements:
- Education: Grade12 plus relevant 3 year degree/diploma
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years’ production management experience within the chemical industry
- Work hours: Monday – Friday (07h00-17h00)
- Own transport
- Excellent communication, numeracy and computer literacy skills.
- Excellent people management skills and management of staff.
- Ability to identifying problems and implement preventative strategies to minimise 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 customer in mind.
- Follow principles for continual improvement
- Being results and deadline driven
Expected salary: R500000 – 600000 per year
Location: Midrand, Johannesburg
Job date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:46:48 GMT
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