Experience you’ll bring:

• Degree in engineering or related field from a recognized university
  
• 5-year work experience in a manufacturing plant preferably in FMCG.
  

Behaviors you’ll need:

• Strong leadership and communication skills
  
• Proficiency in manufacturing standards
  
• Strong problem-solving skills
  
• Conflict resolution and negotiation
  
• Organisational and analytical skills
  

• Oversee production planning to ensure the most efficient utilisation of plant resources and the achievement of production targets.
  
• Annual, monthly and weekly resource planning for the factory based on sales forecasts, in this case labour, plant and equipment.
  
• Manage and optimise production processes to ensure the achievement of all production targets.
  
• Implementing other appropriate production strategies, plans and control systems.
  
• Ensuring cost effective utilisation of machines, materials and staff.
  
• Maintaining the required Safety, Health and Environmental standards in the factory in line with organisational SHE standards, ISO 45001 - Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS), ISO 14001 - Environment Management System (EMS) requirements, and local legislation.
  
• Maintaining the required Quality standards in the factory in line with organisational Quality standards, ISO 9001 - Quality Management System (QMS) requirements, and local legislation
  
• Motivating, leading, developing and supervising the production team leaders.
  
• Update key performance indicators for weekly, monthly and quarterly metric reviews and present to site leadership team.
  
• Liaison with Engineering, Purchasing and Planning, Quality Assurance, Warehouse, HR and other departments to ensure departmental objectives are attained.
  
• Setting and attainment of discretionary goals; this involves medium term sub-projects as agreed with the Plant Manager, as part of cost reduction strategies.
  
• Driving continuous improvement in production operations