Specialist: Production Engineer at BMW Group South Africa

Key accountabilities of the function

• Constantly achieve daily, weekly and monthly production target considering TPU and budget also
• Ensure quality targets in Body Shop achieved.
• Ensure problems are contained and not transferred to internal or external customers.
• Ensure own department headcount and budget achieved.
• Plan and execute succession planning and personnel development.
• Drive continuous improvement in technical availability and UPH performance.
• Ensure timeous execution of TPM and preventative maintenance to ensure high levels of technical availability.
• Ensure robust technical problem solving.
• Ensure safe working environment and adherence of his section to all safe working requirements and procedures.
• Ensure continuous process improvement to optimize resource usage, improve plant condition and improve ergonomics.
• Ensure high level of motivation amongst direct reports and associate in general.
• Enable teams and associates to achieve the agreed targets.
• Ensure cascading of information required to achieve targets.
• Ensure proper work organization installed and maintained.
• Adherence to all applicable standards and procedures.
• Work in accordance with Collaboration management System principles.
• Ensure quality targets are achieved both internally and externally including DPR, RMU, QZS, QZF, Geometry of BIW and HOP controlled and stable.
• Ensure maintenance schedules are up to date and both TPM and preventative maintenance performed as per plan.
• Achieve daily production volume plan and develop production system to consistently achieve 15.5 UPH.
• Must achieve agreed budget and headcount target – must show a 5% year on year improvement. Non personnel cost such as consumables and scrap to be controlled within tight parameters and within budget. Overtime to be minimized and strictly managed.
• Ensure TPU target for directs are achieved and constantly improved.

Impact on innovations and changes

• Challenge supporting department to devise solutions to ever increasing targets.
• Encourage intelligent use of systems and technology to cost effectively optimise business results.
• Continually encourage skills transfer
• Encourage use systems to improve productivity, quality and transparency i.e. Smart maintenance, PPZ and SAP.

Educational

Education

• Mech/Elec Eng. Degree
• Equivalent Higher National Diploma
• Extensive experience in a Body Shop environment
• Experience in Management

Work experience, Leadership experience

• 5 Year in an Automotive Production Plant
• At least 5 years leadership level such as Process leader

Educational Background / Professional Knowledge and Experience / Other Skills

Additional skills: special skills / technical ability etc.

• German proficiency would be an advantage
• Ability to manage technically challenging situations without becoming emotional
• Able to simplify complex topics and translate to lower organisational levels
• Good communicator