Operational Excellence Team Leader (Port Elizabeth) at Aspen Pharma Group

Description
Job purpose

• Oversee operational excellence (OE) activities, developing lean manufacturing and site loss elimination processes, in partnership with line managers and Industrial Engineering and Technical Training team members.
• Support the development of a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture.
• Perform the role of the custodian of standards across the site.

Responsibilities

Planning, section management and reporting

• Provide input into section’s operational planning, prioritisation of objectives, interpretation and execution of policies and procedures.
• Provide input into and manages budgets and resource requirements.
• Define section strategy, goals, actions required and timelines.
• Provide section staff with day-to-day direction and tasks.
• Ensure that section activities are documented/ captured and filed.
• Develop and track organizational goals/objectives and performance.
• Report on section progress against plans and KPIs. 

Operational excellence leadership

• Develop operational excellence strategy and cascades into specific business objectives and targets for the various departments.
• Identify key themes required to achieve business objectives.
• Own and improve OE standards, including root cause problem solving formats and SMED, OEE improvement, yield improvement approaches and formats.
• Ensure communication and dissemination of OE information to internal stakeholders.

Objectives and priorities

• Establish objectives and priorities for pillar leaders at sites.
• Focus on maintaining and improving integrity of production and QS through machines, equipment, employees and supporting processes using autonomous and progressive maintenance, work process improvement, leadership, and organisation.
• Adopt KPIs; sets standards and targets to assess overall equipment effectiveness, yield, OTIF and NPS.
• Site loss elimination process leadership
• Identify themes for site loss elimination, aligned with business objectives and targets.
• Establish and drive loss identification and elimination processes.
• Assist departments identify initiatives and create high level implementation plans; oversee related project management.
• Track and report on site loss elimination performance vs. targets

Organisation coaching and lean improvement

• Perform process confirmation on the floor, monitoring and auditing standard processes (performance management, SMED)
• Assess the need for, develop and lead or initiate Lean workshops and certification programs.
• Lead major lean improvement projects

Requirements
Skills Required

• Background/experience
• Minimum 6 years’ experience in continuous improvement within pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Minimum 3 years leading Team or in a management role
• National Diploma in Engineering
• Formal Business Management or Project Management qualification an advantage.

Specific job skills

• Computer literacy
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Competencies

• Meeting Deadlines
• Finalizing Outputs
• Making Decisions
• Customer Awareness
• Interrogating Information