Job Description

Coordinate the day-to-day activities of a team of production workers to ensure that manufacturing operations run according to established production specifications and schedules; volume, cost, and wastage targets; and quality standards.

• Manage a shift of the manufacturing team through ensuring that daily shift requirements are achieved.
• Responsible for the management of shifts covering all production disciplines i.e. quality, production flow, waste control, etc.
• Ensuring that production personnel consistently maintain housekeeping standards
• Management of production personnel in terms of employee development, discipline, timekeeping, personnel records, etc.
• Management of department costs and cost commitments within budget allocations.
• Management of outgoing quality as well as quality systems and standards through the Quality Circles.
• Management for Daily Improvement (MDI) through the Gemba process.
• Process Owner and driver of 6S and Cell flow processes
• Effectively plan what is to be achieved and involve all relevant role players.
• Anticipate important or critical events identifying resource requirements and assigning responsibility for specific work, including deadlines and performance expectations
• Ability to monitor progress and to make changes as required
• Willingness to accept responsibility and accountability for own actions
• Practice good customer relations management
• Ability to balance the needs of the company and the needs of the customer
• Ability to map processes of possible consequences of decisions, to work out the importance of individual factors and to choose the best course of action.
• Skill in effective communicating, problem solving and negotiating with focus on party interests

• 3 - 5 Years in a production environment as a Team Leader
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in conflict and dispute resolutions and application of discipline
• Monitor the volume and quality of output and adjust tasks, timing, equipment set-up, or inputs so that production specifications are met, and resources are used efficiently
• Manage staff to ensure that all production tasks are performed, and all machines and equipment operated, safely
• Train new workers on the organizationxe2x80x99s operating procedures and standards
• Prepare production reports so that performance problems can be identified and resolved
• Degree or National Diploma in Production Management, Operations Management, Engineering or Equivalent qualification will be an advantage
• Computer Literate

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