Latest Opportunities at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job Purpose

To optimize mixing specifications and compounds to achieve the most consistent extrusion and calendaring results and adequate tack levels of components reaching the tyre assembly department with emphasis placed on waste and scrap reduction meeting budgeted objectives.

Requirements:

• Grade 12/N3 Certificate
• N2-N6 in Engineering Studies (Must)

Experience:

• Workshop Training will be advantageous

Why should you apply?

• We are passionate about our people and want to offer them the opportunity to develop and grow.
• We help you to drive your career path onward and upward work in a culture of feedback that recognizes you and helps your development.
• You will work in a healthy and safety environment, as safety is a key priority area in Bridgestone.

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Job Purpose

To optimize mixing specifications and compounds to achieve the most consistent extrusion and calendaring results and adequate tack levels of components reaching the tyre assembly department with emphasis placed on waste and scrap reduction meeting budgeted objectives.

Main responsibilities

Optimize mixing processes to increase mixing capacity and minimize waste and scrap.

• Analyse mixing conditions statistically
• Formulate improvement actions
• Evaluate formulated improvement actions
• Implement improvement actions
• Monitor improved conditions
• Maintain compound process capability within TCE specified ranks

Introduce new compounds and/or raw materials to satisfy new tyre development strategy.

• Analyse current mixing conditions versus experimental conditions
• Implement plant and volume trials
• Monitor volume trial results for 6 months period
• Maintain compound process capabilities within TCE specified ranks

Control viscosity criteria for all compounds.

• Monitor all compound viscosities daily
• Analyse trends and implement necessary changes to control within specified limits

Waste reduction in mixing and extrusion areas.

• Collaborate with CFTs to identify opportunities for waste reduction
• Formulate agreed actions from processing and/or compound physical property perspective
• Monitor implemented actions and justify waste reduction

TMA reduction in mixing.

• Maximize TMA work away potential at the mixers using TCE standards or plant standards approved by Technical Services Manager
• Collaborate with CFT’s to identify opportunities for TMA reduction in extrusion areas
• Formulate agreed actions from processing perspective
• Monitor implemented actions and justify TMA reduction

Off specification batch reduction.

• Analyse off spec batch trend within CFT
• Identify causes and make recommendations for improvement
• Implement corrective actions
• Monitor implemented actions and justify off spec batch reduction

Specification optimization.

• Implement plant and volume trials
• Monitor volume trial results for 6 months period

CFT activities

• Active involvement in mixer CFT activities aimed at increasing productivity, reducing waste and scrap and maintaining budgeted costs

SHEQ and Risk Management

• Ensure that all SHEQ requirements and Risk Management functions from a Technical Services point of view are implemented and adhered to in mixing department

Requirements:

• BSc in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering (P)
• B Tech Chemistry or Chemical Engineering (R)
• Diploma in polymer or rubber technology (P)

Experience:

• At least 5 years’ experience in rubber mixing and extrusion, preferably in the tyre manufacturing industry.

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Job Purpose

• To assure the proper level of skills and qualification reside at the plant to successfully deploy the loss elimination skill needed for the CBN.
• Ensure IWS work is loss focused and targeted to delivering CBN
• Provide direct coaching to Site Leadership teams so they know what the next step is, why the next step is important and how to do the next step while creating capability to deliver stable and predictable operations.
• Promote reapplication of approaches and techniques within the site while assuring the tools used are being used according to the standard.

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrate the IWS journey of the site to enable site phase progression
• Assures IWS activities have a connection to loss elimination that will deliver required CBN results
• Coach to find solutions and eliminating barriers to drive capability
• “Looks ahead” for what capabilities will be needed in the next 6 to 18 months, works closely with the Site Leader to ensure the Master Plan is on track, intervenes as required by involving the appropriate people to ensure continuous progress
• Provides publicity/promotion, general education and other communication that increase IWS understanding and accelerate progress across the site/organization
• Assessor of integrated activity implementation and standards calibrator with leadership team.
• Participates in all phase assessments to provide a calibrated and objective viewpoint
• Works closely with the IC to ensure the site is receiving effective guidance/coaching and leads on best-in-class systems/tools for reapplication
• Develop capability in leadership teams
• Diagnose activities and identify technical know-how and organization behaviors that are barriers to implementation.
• Provide feedback to leadership teams that cause them to take action.
• Work closely with Pillar Teams to assure standard application of their pillar capabilities
• Support site leader in selecting the right pillar leader
• Ensure continuity of staffing of the pillar network

Activities:

• Daily / Weekly:
• Daily consultative review with team / individual on the small group activities
• Tour one department / one team / one line to understand IWS progress, execution status, helps needed and reapplication opportunities.
• Review IWS web site for self-improvement and benchmark reapplication.
• Discuss plant wide issues that are constraining IWS progress or adjust pillar focuses.
• 1:1 meeting with plant manager to calibrate IWS understanding and analyze progress.
• Conduct AM / PM audits as need.
• Lead Department Leader loss elimination team.

Monthly:

• Attend Pillar meetings as need.
• Participate in Department review with Plant Manager to understand business situation and IWS execution in depart. level. Collect needs and reapplication opportunities.
• Lead site Pillar review.
• 1:1 meeting with pillar owners to adjust Pillar master plans. Provide feedback to Pillar owners and plant manager on Pillar progress
• Involve in critical systems development.
• Work with Pillar owners to train and develop LPT on specific pillar tools / systems.
• Maintain leadership board and IWS promotion board.
• Update Internal Consultant on IWS progress.
• Ensure that site master plan is supported with pillar activities.

Quarterly:

• IWS Internal Consultant visits arrangement and follow up.
• Assesses Pillar health.
• Update and acts upon the gaps in the IWS Leader StepUp Card.

Annually:

• Master plan consolidation / Zero Loss Journey review and revision.
• Participate in Loss Analysis event.
• Review R&R CBA to maintain its power of energizing the whole organization.
• Review the training plans with LPT.
• IWS benchmark visit

Education:

• Good understanding of intent and working of each pillar or in-depth skills in two pillars
• Minimum of level 3 qualification in problem-solving tools (IPS, UPS, PDCA, OPM, Standardized Work, VSM), Leadership Envisioning, and DDS including RTT DMS’s.

Experience:

• Consulting skills (developing relationships, diagnosis, feedback, and enrolling leadership team to take action)
• Able to influence plant managers and plant leadership teams, and Directors as required
• On-the-floor credibility with people doing the work.
• Capable to define and deliver the IWS masterplan

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Job Purpose

We are looking for an IT Operations Manager to oversee our company’s hardware, software and computer networks as well as ticketing service desk. The role will be reporting directly to the Head of IT. This is a Local role, based in Midrand, Gauteng. The role will be a manager of others including both internal and external resources.

The IT Operations Manager responsibilities include monitoring network infrastructure and resolving system issues. You need to have experience with IT performance management, network administration and system security. If you’re also familiar with data protection regulations and able to juggle multiple projects, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you’ll ensure our IT systems are secure, consistent and reliable. You will be responsible for the IT service desk support and will be required to manage and support all issues related to IT within the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize local company networks and servers
• Be responsible for device and password management
• Oversee data backup and system security operations (e.g. user authorization, firewalls)
• Manage installations, upgrades and configurations of hardware and software
• Assess system performance and recommend improvements
• Resolve issues escalated by technicians and engineers
• Ensure data is handled, transferred or processed according to legal and company guidelines
• Provide support and guidance to stakeholders via help desk
• Control costs and budgets regarding IT systems
• Manage contracts with vendors (e.g. development platforms, telecommunication companies, password managers) and software licenses
• Develop IT policies and practices

Requirements

• Proven experience as IT Operations Manager
• Experience with system installation, configuration and analysis
• Thorough knowledge of networks and cloud computing
• Leadership and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects
• Outstanding communication skills
• Problem-solving aptitude

Required capabilities:

• Good communicator
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate to different levels of the organization, technical and non-technical people.
• Have a Can-Do mentality.

Education:

• Matric/ Grade 12
• Degree/ National Diploma in IT or related field

Experience:

• Minimum of 2-3 Years’ experience in IT or related field
• Understanding and knowledge of digital concepts,
• Power Automate
• MS Teams Knowledge
• Management Issue
• Experience with Network Monitoring tools
• Process Mapping.
• Fair knowledge of key concepts within the digital sphere
• Ability to understand new technologies and the application of the technology
• Fair understanding and knowledge of websites and navigation
• Competencies
• Effective interpersonal communication
• Ability and willingness to learn
• Goal orientation
• Leadership and people management
• Decision-making skills
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders i.e., internal and external.
• Knowledge of the production process and the specifics of the department