Production Manager Full Time Job

Production Manager – Chloorkop, Johannesburg.

An organization that is dedicated to producing and distributing advanced technological animal feed additives and disinfectant products for the animal feed, livestock, and food industries is looking for a Production Manager.

The company’s mission is to provide high-quality, value-driven solutions to meet customer needs, using cutting-edge technology and superior formulations.

This position will require the successful candidate to plan and oversee the end-to-end manufacturing process within the company by ensuring that all requirements are planned for ensuring that all production lines run efficiently and that production demands are achieved.

The production manager ensures the products are manufactured according to the correct quality standards and that all production team members adhere to all required industry-related standards.

R600 000 to R700 000 Annually CTC.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Grade12 plus relevant degree / diploma (BSc Eng Industrial / Cost and Management Accounting)
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of production management experience, industry experience is advantageous
• Excellent communication, numeracy and computer literacy skills
• Excellent people management skills and management of staff
• Ability to identify problems and implement preventative strategies to minimise risk
• Being able to develop good working relationships and trust with various teams
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytic ability and very detail-oriented
• Working well with many different departments and external suppliers
• Always keeping the customer in mind
• Follow principles for continual improvement
• Being results and deadline-driven

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Carefully and accurately conduct production planning to ensure that company’s required minimum and target stock levels are maintained at all times
• Evaluate and factor in MRP sales forecasts in production planning for the month ahead and prioritise critical and unforeseen issues according to strict timelines
• Create and manage production schedules for on-time product completion
• Partner with Procurement to ensure that all required and relevant raw materials are on hand in sufficient quantities and available
• Partner with Dispatch to ensure required stock is on hand and ready for delivery to customers with no delays
• Distinguishing between local and export packaging & labelling requirements as per customer specifications
• Partner with Quality to ensure that quality standards are prioritised and adhered to to ensure that all products are consistently manufactured to the highest standard
• Ensure all OHS and quality standards are met, conduct ad-hoc inspections to ensure adherence to OHS and Quality standards and aim to achieve an incident-free operation
• Effectively manage the fault-finding process in cases where a product tests “out-of-specification”
• Continuously monitor production, resolve issues and immediately communicate and/or escalate to senior management on all issues impacting production
• Pro-actively evaluate production equipment and schedule regular maintenance for equipment to ensure continued production and minimal downtime
• Proactively manage the production team by ensuring adequate scheduling of staff and setting daily productivity goals for each production line
• Motivate, support and train production staff to ensure they are equipped and able to produce the required products at the expected quality standard
• Maintain up-to-date and accurate production records, ensure metrics, reports, and production documentation is available
• Ensure efficiency during the production process and implement improvements to the production process when required with the approval of the relevant senior manager
• Continually evaluate production workflow procedures to identify areas where efficiency can be improved without compromising safety or quality
• Analyse budgets and continuously control production costs and identify/rectify waste measures