Production Supervisor - Brits at Syngenta

Role purpose 

• Provide a high level knowledge of Fill and Pack and or Formulation within a manufacturing environment with combined maintenance expertise.
• Have the ability to lead the Formulation and or Fill and Pack teams with some knowledge of chemistry and batch processes.
• Provide day to day leadership and direction to a shift team, ensuring activities are carried out in a safe and efficient manner (includes coordinating and compliance with all safety, health, environmental, quality, maintenance, processing, efficiency and continuous improvement guidelines).
• Deliver to the Production plan ensuring compliance to all Syngenta HSE and Quality standards.
• Lead, manage, supervise and develop Senior process controllers, process controllers, process operators, learnerships and temporary staff (seasonals).
• Lead Root Cause Analysis in the Production environment.
• Lead process safety investigations in the Production environment.
• Ensure safety observations are raised and improvements in the different plants are implemented.
• Optimize and continuously improve Production processes using continuous improvement methodology for monitoring of the installations.
• Drive and manage process designs and efficiency projects within the required plants.
• Drive and manage small multidisciplinary projects by using Continuous Improvent tools (OPEX).
• Gather and analyze data to contribute to the Production department’s OEE, down time, initiation of Hopper projects and Continuous Improvement.
• Must be able to work different hours and shifts throughout the year.
• Take full accountability for LOTO, PTW,PRA actions and WRA within the respective plants.
• Be part of HSE committee, Firstaiders and/or Firefighters team.
• Successful candidate will be appointed as 8.2.i under section 8 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993.

Accountabilities

• Organizes work according to plan, schedule and priorities, including transfer of instructions between teams and shifts.
• Take all appropriate actions to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the Production unit.
• Supervise and ensure that solutions and corrective actions are correctly performed on  installations.
• Ensure compliance with HSE and Quality standards and propose improvements in the various activities related to its function.
• Follow and measure the performance of team members (performance management), including performance reviews and constant feedback. (Pause to Talks)
• Provides training and competency assessments for his/her team and guarantees the skills of the team members.
• Ensure cleanliness and tidiness at the workplaces, maintain the 5S and other Lean standards.
• Assignment and supervision of work activities, ensuring distribution of work, planning of personnel and material requirements and application.
• Conducting staff meetings, support cooperation within the team between shifts, checking working time and ensuring full employment of employees. 
• Ensure continuous improvement sustainability of the operations (OEE, SMED, Visual boards, Management disciplines, etc).
• Co-ordinate maintenance activities to efficiently minimize unscheduled downtime and delays.
• Actively lead and support shifts on Operational Excellence efforts and initiatives.
• Ensure timely communication with the appropriate management levels for any issues that need to be escalated.
• Prepare reports on shift results and performance (employees, material usage, Production plan adherence, incidents etc.). Analyze reports to develop and implement actions for continuous improvement.
• Ensure OHS guidelines are followed in respective work areas.
• Manage all documents related to specific work areas.
• Drive Capex projects in respective areas.

Qualifications

• Critical success factors & key challenges
• Safety first mindset, basic leadership behaviour, understanding of continuous improvement tools to influence efficiencies, problem solving support and show innovation.

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

• Trade certificate with more than 2 years supervising experience.
• A Degree/Diploma in Mechnical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering disciplines or equivalent professional qualification will be considered.
• Maintenance and hands-on technical experience will be an advantage.  
• Demonstrated understanding of operational process hazards.
• Typically has greater than 5 years relevant experience in chemical industry or on Hazardous industrial facility (preferably Formulation, Packaging in chemical industry).
• Microsoft Office experience / certificate. (Intermediate or expert level in Excel will be an advantage)
• Rules and regulations for health, safety, industrial safety and fire protection.
• Good understanding of batch formulation, filling and packing process, material safety data sheet, stock control, testing and reporting. Understanding of operation standard & efficiency to optimize resources to meet manufacturing objectives, agreed target.  Understanding of the shift work and ability to ensure that Production objectives are met safely in targeted efficiency.
• Effective communication skills and cross functional collaboration.

Key success factors 

• HSE culture from day 1
• Quality culture from day 1
• Follow standards and execution
• Problem solving and continuous improvement
• Diversity and inclusion mindset (Working well with different cultures).