Senior Manager Production (107613) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• To ensure that agreed, on-specification, production volumes are achieved, efficiently and safely.
• To ensure that production contributes to the increase of the business growth.
• To lead and manage a production shift to ensure supply of product through the
• acquisition and effective & innovative usage of resources and to continuously
• ensure adherence to all quality, safety and legal requirements

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

Strategic Direction

• Contribute in the translation and execution of the business strategy; objectives and plan into action for employees.
• Cascade operational goals and long term plans through effective two way communication in the organisation.
• Develop new strategies to increase production with safe and cost effective methods.

Deliver Production Volumes

• Manage and enable production operations and make appropriate adjustments to deliver agreed volumes at optimal productivity and cost in time.
• Manage Production Plan for production unit
• Provide, Implement and Manage processes and activities associated with planning, scheduling, measuring, allocating, optimizing and reporting production system volumes.
• Production system optimization including delivering on production targets.
• Responsible for recording, reconciliation and allocation of production volumes.

Manage Cost Of Production

• Compile annual budget including volume. Compile annual long term production budget. Control cost to ensure production volumes are achieved within budget.

Leadership And Strategic Direction

• Contribute in the translation and execution of the business strategy; objectives and plan into action for employees.
• Translate and cascade operational goals and long term plans through effective two way communication in the organisation.
• Continuously improve on products and processes. Identify improvement opportunities and implement improvement solutions.
• Demonstrate One Sasol way behaviour – ensure area under control is managed to the benefit to the larger Sasol value chain.
• Manage multilevel interfaces and integrate effectively. Interact with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage operations knowledge by transforming, packaging, transferring and maintaining operations knowledge.

People Management

• Manage and develop employees effectively.
• Plan and source production people capability.
• Provide a succession plan for direct reports and strategic position.
• Develop production employees to their full potential.
• Accountable for employee wellness.
• Union engagement.
• Achieve the diversity targets.

SHE Performance

• Manage operations risks by making sure that all risks are identified, analysed and mitigated to acceptable levels.
• Execute SHE strategy to achieve zero harm. Continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain license to operate.

Asset Management

• Manage, revise and improvement of Asset Management standards for production.
• Establish and run the operation within agreed envelope conditions.
• Input into year rolling capital plan.
• Manage working capital cost.
• Manage products, process materials, assets, waste and pollutants.

Technology Management at functional unit level, that includes:

• Liaison with technology license holder.
• Identification of technical; problems/opportunities.
• Benchmarking optimal solutions and practices.
• Participating in/leading design decisions; Managing implementation.
• Management of standards; Governance (where applicable.
• Legal compliance.

Formal Education

• Post Graduate Honours Degree

Min Experience

•  12+ relevant years

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies

• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• Business Leadership: Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement. Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
• Strategic Leadership: Provides vision and direction aligned to One Sasol. Leads organisational change, innovation and sustainability.
• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Critical Reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Influencing: Influencing is an ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence

Closing Date: 5th, April 2022