Job Description
Key Outputs and Responsibilities
- Maintain a safe and healthy working environment
- Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards Optimize Production Performance & Processes
- Manage shift in accordance with VPO tools and principles
- Manage shift to achieve production plan within the allowed costs
- Co-ordinate scheduled maintenance and autonomous operations
- Monitor and co-ordinate production processes to within budget.
- Interpret and implement the production plan for shift.
- Build and foster relationships with customers and suppliers.
Administrative Duties:
- Ensure application of admin systems and procedures.
- Administer conditions of employment for team members.
- Contribute to self and team development.
- Prepare and control budgets. Initiate and Facilitate Team Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Apply problem solving and decision making techniques and principles.
- Facilitate team problem solving Manage Human Resources
- Develop employees.
- Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate.
- Manage and apply people policies and practices.
Optimize Team Performance:
- Facilitate effective team dynamics.
- Implement performance management and OPR processes
- To lead the shift based team/s in the execution of the production plan to the required performance criteria (QCDSM).
Education
- B.Sc / HND or equivalent in Engineering.
Experience:
- Experience in a packaging process environment at Supervisory level.
- Minimum of 2 years in FMCG environment
- Experience in managing and running a high speed packaging line.
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Ability to make decisions
- Team-player as well as an effective leader
- Attention to detail, Computer literate
- Bias for action/comfortable with initiating action
- Analytical and systematic thinking ability, to enable effective problem solving
- Sound communication skills(verbal, written, presentation)
- Ability to manage people as well as ability to drive performance through the VPO tools
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum
- High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high pressure environment.