Production Engineer at BMW Group South Africa

Production Engineer:

• Responsible for the IPP Paint Automated Spraybooth.
• Responsible for Manpower and Planning resources.
• Maintenance Team and Paint qaulity execution.
• Area Manager of IPP line - People, Machines and Qaulity Volume. 
• Ownership of complete IPP Line and Work Organisation within the Application Plant. 

Scope of responsibility:

• To achieve volume targets through mean time to repair and mean time between failures monitoring and organisational tact time adherence to ensure on time delivery to internal and external customers.
• To provide quality through robust process stability and reliability to ensure customer satisfaction.
• To recruit, develop, coach, manage and lead direct reports to enable them to achieve set targets.
• To provide or initiate, optimise and monitor business processes to ensure stability and continuous improvement.
• To monitor and achieve allocated departmental budget as cost per unit target in order for the organisation to remain profitable and cost effective.
• To create and maintain a healthy and safe environment through ensuring all standard work conforms to JMS requirements.
• To ensure work organisation is functional within areas of responsibility in order to drive effective communication within the production system.

Education:

•  Engineering Degree (4 years) BTech, BEng or BSc Mechanical/Electrical or relevant Production degree.

Maintenance:

• Production Leadership Role in Automotive Industry – Preference Paint Shop/Body Shop - 5 Year Minimum Experience.
• Preventative Robotic Maintenance and Maintenance Team Management Experience -5 Year Minimum Experience.

Technical and Process Knowledge:

• Automatic Robot Paint Application knowledge on Paint Processes - 5 Year Minimum Experience.
• Automotive Paint Process knowledge.
• DURR Robotic Paint Application Technical knowledge on the Equipment.
• Paint Chemical knowledge - -5 Year Minimum Experience.