Manufacturing, operations, quality Jobs in Kenya

The position will manage and lead a team of
people in allocating workload and managing the day to day operations in the
workshop. It requires the person to coordinate resources within the workshop
different stations – Pre QC, Glazing, Surfacing, Final QC and Repairs and work
with the Control Room and Packaging departments connected to the workshop to
ensure Orders are delivered before time and of highest quality standard.

The position will manage and lead a team of
people in allocating workload and managing the day to day operations in the
workshop. It requires the person to coordinate resources within the workshop
different stations – Pre QC, Glazing, Surfacing, Final QC and Repairs and work
with the Control Room and Packaging departments connected to the workshop to
ensure Orders are delivered before time and of highest quality standard.

1.      
Responsible for Job allocation
and job flow in the workshop including job scheduling and manpower allocation
looking at the workload.

2.      
Ensuring the orders that are
coming in are being delivered well before the promised timelines to the
branches for customers to receive the order in time.

3.      
Manage the difference
workstations within the workshop to ensure the jobs are being processed
smoothly and no bottleneck or holdups taking place at any station. Incase a
bottleneck or problem noticed be it manpower related, Machine related, IT
related take fast action to resolve the same and follow through to ensure
quickly resolved.

4.      
Regularly check on the progress
of orders and quickly communicate delays or concerns to the CS team to inform
the customer on time.

5.      
Incase of a problem with an
Order or Machine, to make regular Follow up and follow through to ensure the
work is completed and problem is resolved. Finding long term solutions also to
ensure its not repeated.

6.      
Supervise the workforce
ensuring they are reporting on time to work and checking their hourly
production work progress and output is on track as per the number of jobs the
machine and technician can handle.

7.      
Check on the Final QC team to
ensure they are going through all the checks for every order and ensuring the quality
is of high standard and not compromised.

8.      
Supervising the person(s) if
they are not working to the expectations and thus decide on if an ongoing
training is required to improve their skills done by the Technical Head or
check on their machinery by Technical team if machine could be the problem
causing the fall in productivity or quality of the jobs.

9.      
Investigate the rejections and
complaints from customers for orders they returned back to find the possible
cause and suggest appropriate solution and follow through to close these
solutions. How to reduce these complaints and Rejections should be the key
focus.

10.  
Look at the load in workshop to
decide if requires technicians to work extra after hours to complete the work.
Or allocate resources to use additional machines to making sure all jobs are
done in time.

11.  
Provide feedback to staff that
are not performing to the expected level and ensure human resources are
informed of the trends in performance.

12.  
Promote health and safety
culture within the workshop and ensuring the workshop is always kept neat and
clean.