Qualifications

• Matric (Maths and Science)
• B. Tech (Chemical engineering) or B.Sc. Engineering (Chemical) or
• Lean six Sigma – Black Belt will be an advantage

Experience

• 5 – 10 years’ experience in similar role in a Manufacturing environment

Duties

Safety:

• Investigate all incidents (safety & environment)
• Perform process safety audits
• Tracking and liaising with stakeholders on mitigating actions from investigations
• Closing external and internal findings
• Update task-based risk assessments
• Update baseline risk assessments
• PTO
• Coach new employees on plant
• OHSA 8.2(i) appointment
• Coach existing employees on plant
• Manage leading and lagging indicators with team leaders
• Writing and developing procedures for operations

Quality:

• Develop, train and mentor on quality control procedures
• Develop SOPs and WIs (owner)
• Co-ordinate training of employees minimising cost and business impact
• Investigation poor quality product NCRs
• Monitor and escalate raw material quality

Operational Cost control:

• Monitor and control line budgets (PPE, staff welfare, cleaning, overtime, etc.)
• Report cost expense and mitigation measures to management
• Continuous improvement on cost reduction

Working Capital:

• Ensure we produce as per plan (minimising stock outs and excess production)
• Investigate stock losses as per monthly recon report

Business Innovation:

• Review losses and waste with multi-discipline team
• Propose solutions to losses
• Promote and participate in problem solving
• Encourage an innovative team environment

Plant Efficiency:

• Perform stock control (monitoring and planning)
• Reconcile usage variances against the BOMs
• Monitor and Challenges shutdown Planning

Ensure product delivered as per customer expectations:

• Liaises with supply planning dept about the production demand (plan, sequence, expectations)
• Escalate delays with supply chain (customers)

Perform standby function Promote employee engagement:

• Lead task forces to assist in implementing world class baseline practices (TW, VM, 5S ext)
• Leading and managing change in the plant
• Contracting and EDD discussion with team leaders
• Reviewing KPIs

Ensure production viewpoint considered within short- and long-term maintenance strategy:

• Provide input on maintenance planning (equipment specific)
• Identify equipment performance deviations