Job Description

Job Summary
Introduction
A well-established roofing and solar firm based in Cape Town is looking for an experienced Foreman to join their market-leading company. To plan, organize and control the production facility of the Cape Town factory/ plant in order to produce the required quantity of roof tiles and accessories within agreed quality and cost specifications.
Duties & Responsibilities
Functional knowledge:

• Production Planning - communicate daily with the commercial manager, sales and dispatch planning team to ensure sufficient stock levels are maintained.
• To plan maintenance schedule.
• To assist with problem solving on breakdowns on the main production line.
• Ensure safety levels are optimal and good housekeeping in factory.
• Yard control to plan, organized and control the production facility to produce tiles and fittings of the correct quality and cost at the correct time
• Management of stock levels including critical spares and raw materials and ensure procurement procedures are adhered to.
• Management stock counts and audits with finance and stock/ inventory control in system.
• Manage stock losses and variance tracking, production breakages.
• Negotiate with all suppliers of both raw material and maintenance spares for the timeous supply of materials at the best possible rate
• Maintain good industrial relations, experience within a unionized environment, and adhere to procedures between factory staff and management through the established IR procedures.
• Labour productivity, efficiencies and unit production costs.
• SHEQ Management and compliance with ISO 14001 & ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001
• Develop and motivate production staff to achieve agreed objectives regarding efficiency, quality, industrial relations, health and safety
• Maintain, review and develop the SABS Quality Management System to establish and maintain quality standards
• Controls to manage shrinkage and breakages.
• Management security breaches.
• Ensure implementation of the 5 S system.

Additional responsibilities required to fully exercise the function

• Negotiations with suppliers for high value items from time to time.Stores and buying procurement of spares for the factory fall under the Foremans control.
• Assist with the investigation of customer complaints

Business expertise

• Understanding of both the mechanical and the electrical.
• Understanding of costing
• Understanding of people and productivity costs.

Area of impact:

• Ensuring the production team achieves the productivity and efficiency targets.

Interpersonal skills:

• Ensure safety talks and safety tours of the factory. SHEQ or EHS Manager
• Negotiates with suppliers of critical spares.

Desired Experience & Qualification
Minimum education:

• Matric
• B Tech/ Degree preferably Engineering qualification preferable

Minimum experience:

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a production/ factory environment.
• Sound electrical and mechanical knowledge.

Package & Remuneration
Basic salary R40 000.00
Car Allowance R6500
Fuel card R4000
Medical Aid 50% employer 50% employee contribution
Provident fund is 21.36% of the basic salary
13th cheque in December
Interested?
Please mail your CV to hr1 (at) peopledimension (dot) co (dot) za
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks, if you do not hear from us by then your application for this position was unsuccessful, but you have been added to our database for future vacancies.
People Dimension
15 Soveriegn drive, Irene. Route 21
2-10
Recruiter
About
PEOPLE DIMENSION believes that every successful Brand is shaped by Great People who deliver on the promise they make. PEOPLE DIMENSION is a Recruitment agency committed to seek greatness in the South African job market. Skills attraction is our passion and building trusted partnerships with both our clients and applicants our priority. PEOPLE DIMENSION prides us on providing a personalized and delivery-focused recruitment function across all industries. Our Services include both permanent and contract placements, in the following specialist areas; ? Information Technology ? Engineering ? Finance ? Office Support ? Insurance ? Marketing & Sales A clear understanding of our clients' business and corporate culture is the starting point of every successful placement we make. Our extensive industry knowledge and more than 11 year presence within the recruitment industry, enables us to find and introduce South Africa's top talent to our clients. We also believe in continuous follow up on the progress of the candidate we have placed as well as the level of both our client's and candidate's satisfaction with our service. PEOPLE DIMENSION adheres to the APSO Constitution and Code of Ethics and is therefore very serious in complying with the requirements of South Africa's Labour legislation. We are also a Level 4 BEE Contributor. Integrity and Service excellence is our promise to you. We invite you to choose PEOPLE DIMENSION as your recruitment partner.

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