Lead – Production & Design (SOUTH AFRICA / UNITED KINGDOM) at De Beers Group

Job Description:
The Lead – Production & Design conceptualises, implements and manages the global production, test and design maintenance and technology evolution operations for the IgniteTM suite of technology products.
The primary focus is on assuring a safe working and production environment, with safety the priority guiding all decision making.

The Lead: Production & Design is a key role in a senior team working in an integrated way to evolve the De Beers Commercial Technology strategy for the most promising technology products and services from De Beers Group IgniteTM to deliver a growing contribution to our overall performance ambitions for the Group.

Key Responsibilities include: 

• Develop the Production & Design function strategy for the complete catalogue of De Beers Group IgniteTM technology products including product / service lifecycle technical requirements, alternative manufacturing possibilities, product design evolution opportunities, outsourced design opportunities, innovative delivery mechanisms, and new non-field support service development initiatives (advisory authority to De Beers Commercial Technology / IgniteTM senior management team).
• Develop the Production & Design function annual business plan and long-term budgets including non-field service sales forecasts (advisory authority to De Beers Commercial Technology / IgniteTM senior management team).
• Drive efficiency across the manufacturing and production facilities by identifying opportunities for integration or synergy in terms of capabilities and capacities.
• Execute delivery of Production & Design function business plan with the appropriate time, cost and schedule rigour (managerial authority over direct reports on required activities).
• Identifies service promotional opportunities and develops an effective strategy to leverage these to increase technology adoption.
• Design, deploy and deliver on key operational metrics that enable all aspects of the production of technology products, the delivery of non-field support services and the maintenance and evolution of product designs to be actively monitored, optimised and reviewed against internal and external best practice benchmarks.
• Development and execution of technical / engineering capability development plans that addresses short, medium and long term technical, process and /or skills requirements.

Qualifications:

• Minimum qualification is an engineering, scientific or commercial degree.

Knowledge and skills required: 

• Broad engineering or scientific background.
• Capital project operational environment.
• Customer service in a technical environment.
• Supervisory / line management of technical personnel up to Band 6 level.
• Customer service in a technical environment.
• R&D / Product development experience.
• Management of external resources would be advantageous.

Closing Date: 6th, April 2022