Management of manufacturing operations in the Savoury factory to ensure product quality and delivery in a safe environment during the day to day operations achieved at minimum cost as defined in the Operations Plan.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Coordinate all production activities in the plant through shift leaders
To continually monitor, analyze, and control parameters for cost-effectiveness and ensure that objectives set for these parameters are met: PQCDSM
Ensures integration of UMS methodology and strategy as well as facilitation of best-proven practice in the factory, viz: AM, PM,FI,QM etc
Drive autonomous-based maintenance of equipment
To maintain high standards of discipline and minimize organizational loss of time
Establish and maintain optimum manufacturing process conditions, and take action in the event of deviations
Provide coaching and training for teams to drive capability development via the capability development route.
Support Sales and Operations Planning process and ensure service levels are not compromised.
Conduct a Tier 1 Performance Review for the shift, generate action logs, and follow up to a logical conclusion.
Plan and implement training schedule for the process operations team.
Implements and sustains process operations day-by-day work order closure
Ensure product and process mastery is retained to ensure we do not lose capability.
Retaining talent is non-negotiable.
Key Interfaces:
Factory Manager
Supply Planner
Factory Engineer, Quality Lead
Finance Business Partners
HR Business Partner
Regional Teams
Relevant Skills:
B.Sc. Engineering or Sciences
Supply Chain Experience (Make/Plan)
Minimum 5 years experience FMCG/ Food or Savoury category
Experiencing working with SAP is not negotiable
Storytelling, data visualising and presentation skills
Strong Excel and PowerPoint Skills
Professional To be Fluent in English
Leadership Behaviours:
Have a passion for high performance and the ability to drive business performance using insight to drive decision.
Have strong process design and optimization skills, being able to design and re-engineer core process flows with effective control.
Have demonstrated stakeholders’ management skills to ensure maintaining great relation with people having impact and interest in your job
Have the ability to clearly prioritize work for effective job delivery.
Have effective communication skills that enable you to produce creative, compelling content that engages the audience to make impact and influence
Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and learning through change.
