Manager: Operations - JHB at Weir Minerals

Key Responsibilities: 

Safety First: 

• Maintain the safety of all systems and processes in the Isando Foundry and implement world class safety practices as guided by the Health and Safety department and senior management
• Ensure that the Foundry complies to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (Act 85: 1993)
• Leadership: 
• Ensure effective leadership across multi-shift teams, maintaining a focus on internal customer delivery
• Manage the technical development of the Foundry including yield improvements, new parts and material industrialisation 
• Achieves financial objectives by forecasting needs, preparing a budget, and managing expenditures.
• Guides problem solving activities, applying, and coaching principles to others; models and trains principles of continuous improvement.
• Production:
• Ensure continuous improvement of the manufacturing processes in order to reduce waste and increase productivity
• Implement and improve on world class error proofing and quality control systems to prevent defects from reaching the customer
• Maintain the Foundry expense budget, including manning calculations, shift control, over-time control and raw material costs
• Maintain and improve the Foundry throughput through machine utilisation management, production routing and Bill of material control, management of down time, implementation of quick changeover processes etc.
• Work with the planning department to effectively schedule and manage the capacity of the Foundry
• Maintain the integrity of the ISO 9001: 2008 quality assurance system within the Foundry, including product traceability
• Implement and maintain Make to Stock (MTS) and Make to Order (MTO) pull systems

Technical:

• Digitize and covert manual processes
• Ensure continuous process optimization and improvements
• Project manage new part / process introductions and industrialisation process
• Estimate method and process steps to determine product costs
• More efficient gating system, to improve yield and save costs
• Yield savings, continuous cost saving and efficiency improvement

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications: 

Relevant Technical Qualification

• Certified qualification in Metallurgy, Pattern Making etc. applicable to the Foundry Industry
• 5 – 8 years’ experience in the Management of a Foundry sand casting process involving more than 25 Employees
• 5 – 8 years’ experience with patternmaking, methoding, physical metallurgy and or heat treatment of    ferrous alloys. 
• 4 years’ experience with actively managing a continuous improvement programme
• Manufacturing, TQM, Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing
• 2 Years’ experience as a Legally Appointed Section 16.2