The Plant Manager has the ultimate responsibility for Operations taking place in the facility (site leadership responsibility) including:
Manufacturing
- Manage daily operations in the facility
- Responsibility for production output, product quality and on-time shipping
- Production Control and Materials Control
- Ingredients and Packaging Handling
- Logistics and Despatch
- Delivery of an efficient lean factory driving cost savings and efficiency improvements
Maintenance
- Ensure proper maintenance of all equipment used at the facility (minimum of technical stops)
- Ensure right performance of all equipment used at the facility (minimum downtime)
- Involvement in selecting and installing new equipment
Health & Safety
- Ensure safety and efficiency of the facility.
- Creating a culture focused on the safety of our staff
- Ensure compliance with facility ISO standards and all HSE guidelines
- Ensure compliance with SMETA/ETI
Quality Control
- Ensure all products produced are meeting the food and health standards as well as the agreed customer specifications
- Acting in line with all food and health legislation
Labour force, Human Resource Management for plant
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results. Control and minimize labour overtime
Site Performance and Administration
- Build up and control Budget
- Stock and Cost Accounting
- Cost Control, to continually review site overhead costs, implementing new ways of working which facilitate overhead cost reduction
- Local Purchasing and Vendor Management
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets
- Reporting on all KPIs, Prepare, analyse and issue production and performance reports
- To continually review total cost per ton of all site products, driving new initiatives which deliver year on year total cost per ton reduction
- Others are assigned by direct management./.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in the same position
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and manage a team.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with team members.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills with the ability to develop and implement effective solutions.
