Job Vacancies at Omnia (Pty) LTD

About the Job

Overview

Key Dimensions

Role impacts:

• Productivity
• Safety
• Customer and supplier relationships

Key Relationships

• Management Team
• Customers
• Support Teams
• Production
• Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time

Qualifications

• Grade 12

Advantageous:

• Suitable Technical qualification

Experience

• 1 year’s demonstrated experience in a manufacturing environment or plant operation

Duties

Conduct sampling and measurement of cartridges:

• To constantly conduct sampling and measurement of cartridges
•  Record results during the manufacturing process and identify defects or non-conformance of products as early as possible in the process to minimize waste and ensure quality products to customers

Standby duties as a Process Controller:

• Assist the Process Controller during start-up and shutdown and do minor maintenance of the Rota-clip machine to ensure manufacturing efficiency of 85% of design capacity.

Process efficiency:

•  Safe and timeous preparation of gassing solution during the manufacturing of cartridge explosives thus ensuring production of less than 0.5% waste.
•  Optimize productivity and quality
•  Proactively plan for resources that may be needed during the shift to minimize downtime

Adherence to sound SHERQ principles:

•  Wear correct PPE
•  Adhere to good housekeeping principles
•  Constantly monitor the production process to ensure quality standards are met.

Job Competencies

• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of the production processes
• Ability to meet daily target
• Proven computer literacy in Excel
• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• Systematic

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About the Job

Overview

Key Dimensions:

Role impacts:

• Productivity
• Safety
• Customer and supplier relationships
• Quality

Key Relationship:

• Management Team
• Customers
• Support Teams
• Operations
• Production
• SHERQ
• Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time

Qualifications

• A B. Tech or B.Sc. in a technical field such as chemistry (organic, physical, polymers), physics, statistics or mathematics.

Advantageous:

• Project Management

Experience

• 5 years previous experience in the explosives industry and knowledge of initiating systems.
• 3 years demonstrated understanding and ability to maintain the smooth running of a Quality Control or Initiating System test laboratory.

Advantageous:

• Experience in Explosives manufacturing

Duties

Effective evaluation of test results:

•  To enable BME to make informed sourcing and operational decisions or to take appropriate corrective actions in case of deviations.

Optimize fit for purpose initiating systems:

•  Through development and continuous improvement interventions within own teams as well as in collaboration with third party manufacturers.

Maintaining the IS Lab:

•  Identifying information needs and problems; recommending improvements; establishing priorities; testing; writing user manuals; training employees; maintaining security and confidentiality.

Responsible for implementing new programs:

• Through conducting tests, developing new methods, instrumentation, and procedures by investigating alternatives; preparing proposals; developing and performing parallel testing; monitoring progress.

Enabled and compliant plant delivery:

•  Ensure that the resources allocated (people, process and material) are optimally utilized as expected to meet their daily/weekly targets.
•  Optimize the Lab performance by recruiting qualified, well trained and experienced resources within agreed budget parameters.
• Plan, organize and enable the Lab team to ensure that all required skills and tools/other resources are available as and when required in order to meet the target/schedule.
•  To ensure that the training plans are implemented and managed for all team members in line with the plant’s day to day deliverables.
• Ensure compliance to all legal and other safety procedures and processes as prescribed to minimize risks

Job Competencies

• Computer literate with advanced excel skills, quality systems and quality tools. (E)
• Sound knowledge of statistical techniques and data processing. (E)
• Excellent technical and analytical skills. (D)
• Collection, analysis and interpretation of data. (E)
• Decision-making. (E)
• Attention to detail. (E)
• Self-driven. (D)
• Knowledge of Six Sigma, total quality management (D)

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About the Job

Overview

Key Dimensions:

Role impacts:

• Plant throughput and Productivity
• Safety
• Employee relations

Key Relationships:

• Management Team
• Support Teams
• Production

Qualifications

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Magazine Master Certificate (CIE)

Experience

• 2 years demonstrated materials handling experience
• 2 years demonstrated experience in magazine and stock control in an explosives environment

Advantageous:

• 1 year demonstrated experience in explosives production environment

Duties

• To co-ordinate, supervise and monitor all magazine activities using space and mechanical handling equipment efficiently and effectively to ensure operational objectives, targets and environmental standards and requirements are met.
• To ensure the compliance of all magazine activities to standard operating procedures, regulation and legislation (this includes: receiving, putaway, picking, loading and cycle counts).
• To complete vehicle pre-use checklists prior to loading and dispatching vehicles with product to ensure regulatory and legislative compliance.
• To complete inventory cycle counts as per the schedule provided by the Stock Controller, and investigate all discrepancies.
• To ensure that stock is stored in a planned and organized manner to maximize the efficient use of space (ensure floor to system matching), and

FIFO management of stock.

• To ensure effective housekeeping of the magazine/store and yard so that these areas are neat, tidy, safe and comply with all SHERQ and legislative requirements.
• To ensure that the plants requirements in terms of raw materials, supply and storage of finished goods are met
• Ensuring timeous release of stock to Distribution

Job Competencies

• Attention to detail
• Numerical fluency/skills
• Strong administration skills
• Critical Thinking — using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative impacts and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
• Accuracy skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Inventory management skills
• Ability to work under pressure

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About the Job

Overview

• To provide specialist equipment fault-finding, problem solving and KPI management of equipment reliability.
• All activities, roles and responsibilities are aligned to the world class (manufacturing) philosophy, principles and practices.

Qualifications

• N6 / B.Tech in Engineering
• Trade Specific Artisan (Red Seal)
• Diploma in relevant engineering discipline
• CRMP - Certified Reliability Maintenance Professional

Experience

• 5-10 Years’ Experience in a Maintenance Environment as a Technician
• Asset Care Experience

Duties

OHS Act Compliance:

• Ensure Statutory compliance

Responsible for MTTR & MTBF analysis:

• Identify problematic equipment
• Determine AM & PPM focus areas
• Review Work Order & Schedule Compliance
• Review Resource Utilisation
• Review critical, PPM & AM spares lists
• Review and analyse 5-Why analysis
• Advance problem solving and collaboration with Reliability Engineer
• Paricipate in root cause analysis investigation
• Execution of reliability improvement projects

Budget Control / Cost Management:

• Approve purchase orders within certain cost limit
• Obtain quotations from external service providers

5S:

• Drive 5S principles

Job Competencies

Knowledge :

• Familiar / Competent in Microsoft Office
• Competent CRS Payroll Solutions
• CMMS, Maintenance Software

Core Behavioural Competencies:

• Decision making
• Teamwork
• Work standards
• Reliability
• Motivation of self and others
• Adaptability
• Problem-solving
• Integrity and trust
• Communication skills
• Planning and organization
• Stress tolerance
• Initiative
• Building relationships

Functional / Technical Competency:

• Coaching and Mentoring
• Facilitation
• Project Management
• Researching
• Effective Change Management
• Conflict Management
• Product Knowledge
• Root-cause analysis
• Excellent Customer Service

Cross-Functional Competency:

• Collaboration
• Functional integration

Leadership Competency:

• Drive for Results
• Motivating Others
• Strategic Agility
• Managing Vision and Purpose
• Motivating Others
• Business Acumen is an advantage

General

• Practical execution of the OHS Act and Regulations regarding to Machinery
• Multiskilled
• Expert in Fault Finding
• Expert in Problem Solving
• Computer Literate
• Expert in repair methods
• Expert in modifications
• Competent in material types
• Competent and trained in plant equipment specific to relevant engineering discipline
• 5S Principle Application