Bridgestone South Africa. Bridgestone SA is a unit of the world's No.1 tyre manufacturer. Today, Bridgestone develops, manufactures, and markets tyres for passenger, light truck, truck, bus, earthmoving, agricultural, motorcycle and aircraft applications.
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Job Purpose
You will be responsible for organizing and managing all production related activities. This includes but is not limited to the following:
- Coaching, training, motivating, and guiding all equipment owners, cell, process, and maintenance leaders.
- Implementing and enforcing operating policies and procedures.
- Delivering agreed production operating targets and goals.
- Implementing strategies to ensure safe and efficient production operations, continuous improvement and delivering superior quality on a consistent basis.
- Leads the implementation of the Daily Management System (DMS) in the supervised production cell.
- Manages professionals on process and maintenance as well as a team of operators to obtain the cell’s assumed goals arising from CBN (Compelling Business Need), the Master Plan and the Annual Plan of the department. Also leads the implementation of standards in the managed structure.
Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain a safe and healthy working and operating environment for all people on the manufacturing site.
- Drive delivery of agreed production operating targets and goals including OE and Warehouse Yield; production volume; conversion cost; material usage; plant and process reliability; productivity and waste reduction.
- Prepare and obtain approval for operating cost budgets and drive production cost performance to achieve agreed budgets and targets.
- Drive implementation of IWS, B-Safe and B-EMEC and any other Bridgestone manufacturing strategies and initiatives.
- Ensure compliance and strict adherence to Bridgestone quality standards.
- Monitor operations and implement corrective actions to full on time delivery of agreed production budgets and goals.
- Identify, coach and develop talent to build competency and capability to support our cell centric organization.
- Drive employee engagement and compliance with all legal and corporate policies and regulations relating to labour, safety, health, quality, and the environment.
- Guide and coordinate the activities of the team
- Management of the clean, inspect and lubricate (CIL) process
- Management of Defects Handling process • Management of the Incident Elimination process
- Managing and improving results (i.e. driving performance improvement)
- Lead execution of 90-day plans to eliminate losses using IWS tools • Lead the cell daily direction setting (DDS) meetings
- On the floor coaching of operators e.g. DMS execution, loss elimination, skills development and technical mastery
- Provide coaching to team leaders in the shift exchange DDS meetings
- Lead issue resolution “to root cause” on the floor of chronic stops
- Lead small work groups, communicate effectively, and develop short-term action plans • Overall responsibility for CFT cell output
- Conduct Health checks and identify gaps
Qualifications & Experience Required
Education, Master, other certification:
- Minimum National Diploma in Operations Management, Industrial Engineering or equivalent
Experience (years):
- Min of 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
- 2 years management experience
Technical Skills:
- Experience and reasonable technical mastery in operations
Soft/Behavioral Skills:
- Planning, Leading and Organizing skills
- Communication skills and willingness to interact with shop floor staff
- A desire to be in a lead role
- Be a self-starter
- Must demonstrate knowledge/experience working with Excel
- Sound Interpersonal Skills and ability to work under pressure
- Presentation Skills
- Analytical Skills
Leadership Skills:
- Understand customer needs
- Communicate effectively
- Track and measure staff performance
- Create a positive learning environment
- Enforces standards
- Promote Servant Leadership
- Technical and Functional Expertise
- Understanding of the Business
- Achieving results
- Customer service
- Teamwork
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Leadership and Personal Effectiveness
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Job Purpose
- You will oversee the day to day tasks of the maintenance needs of the specific cell including managing the Progressive Maintenance (PM) in the cell by eliminating maintenance and breakdown related losses. Perform a wide variety of maintenance duties including preventative, progressive, emergency, and routine maintenance and regular inspections. The Maintenance Lead will also act as a trainer, technical coach, resource, and mentor to cell crew by disseminating technical knowledge among operators.
Responsibilities:
- Eliminating engineering, maintenance, and breakdown related losses (loss elimination)
- Manage maintenance planning, maintenance scheduling and breakdown elimination daily management systems
- Manage the maintenance systems for the specific cell (Management of maintenance Planning & scheduling (MP &S).
- Responsible for building capability in operating teams to deliver overall cell results supporting the Compelling Business Need (CBN)
- Drive breakthrough results in planned and unplanned downtime
- Manage M&R costs for the cell (percentage planned maintenance, percentage planned maintenance completed and breakdown reduction
- Ensures stock control and looks for reducing levels of spare parts and pickings
- Provides process improvements on related processes
- Coach and develop shift teams by serving as technical coach, resource and mentor (Improving operator’s technical knowledge).
- Participate in cell daily direction setting meetings and execution of daily plan
- Develop a time base maintenance system
- Ensure base condition of machines
- Facilitate inspections, manage repairs and defect finding
- Initiate & train operators on autonomous maintenance step 1 to 3 initiated, guide operators to become equipment owners
- Management of the Breakdown Elimination (BDE)
- Track and report maintenance indicator results and in Process measures.
- Develop improvement plans
- Champions and lead the continuous improvement plans
Qualifications & Experience Required
Education, Master, other certification:
- Profile /specification: mechanical, electrical, electronic, chemical.
- Technical secondary school
- One year as a maintenance technician, leader, shift supervisor, Kaizen specialist, engineer e.g. TS, QA, and EM,IE for 3 years.
Experience (years):
- 4 to 7 years’ experience in the maintenance field in a manufacturing environment
- Experience and reasonable technical mastery in operations
- Planning, Leading, Technical and Organizing skills
Technical Skills:
- Skill in disseminating knowledge
- Skill in performing at least one job in the area at the operator’s level
- Soft/Behavioral Skills:
- Communication skills and willingness to interact with shop floor staff
- A desire to be in a lead role
- Be a self-starter
- Emphasis on safe work practices
- Troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Must pay attention to detail
- Time management skills
- Knowledge of production process and quality requirements, AM and PM standards
- Basic PC Skills
- Priority setting
- Communication/training skills
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Job Purpose
- You will be responsible for the performance of machines and the status of implementation of Daily Management Systems (DMS) in the supervised production cell. This position will be responsible for training on the Daily Management System (DMS) in the production cell. The BME Cell Leader will lead the Team to achieve the assumed goals of the cell resulting from the CBN (Compelling Business Need), Master Plan and Annual Department Plan. This position will be accountable for the effective implementation of Incident Elimination - IE, Defects Handling - DH and activities related to cleaning, inspection, and lubrication of machines (Clean, Inspect & Lubricate - CIL).
Responsibilities:
Manages the cleaning inspection and lubrication (CIL) process
- Implements the CIL process on machines and is responsible for its continuous improvement and development
- Trains operators in CIL activities
- Supervises the training of operators in the activities covered by the CIL process Create, verify, and update new parameters to minimize losses
- Performing a DMS (Health Check) implementation check in terms of CL, identifies opportunities to improve the process and implements corrective actions
Defects Defect Removal Process Management (DH)
- Owns the DH process in the managed cell in cooperation with the Maintenance Lead
- Prioritizes and plans the removal of identified defects
OSH incident elimination process (IE)
- Responsible for the implementation of the Safety Trigger system to identify the causes of potential accidents and eliminate them
- Implements a system of observation of behaviors affecting work safety (Behavioral Observation System – BOS)
- In cooperation with other Cell Leads from the department and the OHS section, he develops the IE process tools
- Participates in the risk assessment process at workplaces
- Monitors activities related to the implementation of 3M changes in the cell
Elimination of losses
- Create a 90-day plan for a cell
- Coordination of Loss Analysis
- Conduct DDS (daily direction settings) meetings to define priorities, tasks and report results for the last 24 hours.
- During the meeting, they ensure accuracy and clarity before presenting information to the team concerning the following:
- Safety
- Quality Implementation of CIL
- Number of defects found and removed
- Execution of the production plan
Implementation of the B-ME project
- Responsible for the implementation of the training in the managed Cell, including directing operators to training, setting a development plan and annual goals.
- Assessing the progress of training
- Organizes work as part of a team, approves leaves, overtime, organizes replacements.
- Manages multiskilling in the managed structure.
Qualifications & Experience Required
Education, Master, other certification:
- B.Sc. (Chemical Eng), B.Tech (Chemical Eng), Quality/Engineering Diploma
- Technical Secondary School
- One year as a leader, shift supervisor, daily supervisor, Kaizen specialist, engineer e.g., QA, EM, IE for 3 years
Experience (years):
- 4 to 7 years’ experience in a process improvement environment in the manufacturing industry
- Must demonstrate knowledge/experience working with Excel and LED systems
Soft/Behavioral Skills:
- Communication level in English
- Knowledge of production process and quality requirements
- Thorough knowledge of quality management systems
- Planning, Leading and Organizing skills
- Communication skills and willingness to interact with shop floor staff
- Problem solving and trouble shooting skills
- A desire to be in a lead role
- Be a self-starter
- Strong organizational skills
- Able to teach, coach and develop others.
- Analytical skills and proficiency in Excel
- Apply Innovation Skills in Tyre Manufacturing Sphere
- Interpret, Analyze and Test Outcomes to Recommend Corrective Actions to Maintain Process Control
- Analysis of Production Data to Establish Conformance to Operating And Process Standards
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