Production Manager at Unique Personnel

Job Description    
Reporting to the General Manager

Purpose of the Job:

• The Production Manager coordinates the activities required for the production department, monitors, and advises on the performance of the production department and produces data and reports on performance, and company production objectives.

Scope of the Job:

• To ensure processes and products conform to company and customer requirements; to ensure the company production objectives and targets (scrap %, etc) are achieved; and to motivate the quality improvement for products and processes. This position is delegated the responsibility to stop delivery, production, or development of a product / process in the event where required procedures and quality standards are not achieved.

Main tasks of Job (Actual responsibilities):

• Maximise the usage of all process equipment, personnel in the goal of supplying the customers with quality products and on time delivery.
• Ensure compliance with the quality management system (QMS).
• Ensure the company complies with all environmental requirements and systems (EMS).
• Responsible for Health and Safety of the production staff.
• Management and methodologies such as Continuous Improvement.
• Since maintaining production demands adaptation to customer expectations, the Production Manager employs a variety of measures to place efficiency at the heart of the organisation. These include:
• Co-ordinate and manage all production staff.
• Weekly meetings with the injection moulding machine setters for problem resolving, information, etc.
• Promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organisation.
• Setting production objectives and ensuring that targets are achieved (scrap %, absenteeism %, cycle time standards, etc.).
• Maintaining awareness of the business context and company profitability, including budgetary control issues.
• Ensure products are manufactured timorously and meet the customer quality and delivery requirements.
• Manage setting of all injection moulding machines and any ancillary equipment.
• Schedule production through the plant utilizing equipment to its best effect.
• Ensure all raw materials are ordered timorously.
• Ensure that production work instructions eg. Production Process Flow charts, Setting Sheets, Inspection Instructions, Job Cards, Packaging and Transport details are adequate and complied with.
• Maintain good housekeeping throughout.
• Conduct periodic formal reviews (at least annually) to verify that production activities are performed in accordance with the applicable procedures and work instructions.
• Review customer releases and formulate production plans when necessary.
• Identify process, tooling, equipment improvements, etc.
• Identify the training needs of personnel under supervision.
• Conduct/implement training when required.
• To assist Stores Controller when necessary (e.g. material staging, month end/annual stocktaking, etc.).
• Have full control when General Manager is not available.
• Collating and analysing performance data and charts against defined parameters.
• Ensuring tests and procedures are properly understood, carried out and evaluated and that product modifications comply with requirements
• Assistance in cross functional audits in line with the requirements of ISO 9001: 2015 and the internal audit plan.
• Assisting, wherever possible, to ensure that all actions, functions, and processes in the company's business are conducted in a value-added manner.
• Review all non-conforming products together with the quality department and ensure that effective correction action is taken to prevent recurrence.
• Bringing together staff of different disciplines and driving the group to plan, formulate and agree comprehensive quality procedures. •
• Persuading reluctant staff to change their way of working to incorporate quality methods.
• Ensure that the agreed KPI’s are maintained and achieved for yourself and your subordinates.
• Monitoring performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reports where required.
• Complying, in line with the Management Policy Document, departmental procedures and practices.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Control of any company expenditure, which may be entrusted to you, in line with the overall company budget.
• To comply with any other work-related instruction which is relayed via a superior and which is deemed to be necessary and reasonable.
• The duties and responsibilities in this letter of appointment may be revised, by mutual agreement, in line with the company’s overall Management Policy Document and the responsibility matrix therein. 
• The company expects the employee to carry out his/her duties and responsibilities to the best of their ability and commits itself to empower the employee with the authority to meet these requirements.

Degree of Supervision Received:

• Must be able to work unsupervised.
• Monthly and or meetings with the General Manager.

Adverse Working Conditions:

• High pressure, diversity of products, after hours call outs for production, etc. issues as and when required. Some of the work requires working with lead and lead products and some alcohol-based chemicals, cleaning agents and solvents.
• Important Contact: (on work related issues, inside, outside the organisation, and excluding Supervisor):
• Liaises with: Customers, all department managers, Injection Moulding Machine Setters, warehouse personnel and operators when required.

Inherent Requirements    
Experience required:

• At least 5 years’ experience in Injection moulding machine setting and optimization
• At least 3 years supervisory experience.
• Previous work experience in the plastics manufacturing environment.

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Problem solving techniques, assist with training of the personnel.
• Must have expertise in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Preferably experienced with databases.
• Experience in the compilation of management data reporting.
• Filing indexing etc. must be of a high level.
• Legal requirements:
• Code 08 Drivers Licence;
• South African Citizen.