OPERATIONS MANAGER:
Salary: R35 000 – 45 000
Area: Johannesburg, Kempton Park
Summary of position: Small Site in South Africa in terms of staff compliment. If you are ready for an all- rounder Operational position this is the role for you.
Duties:
EH & S:
• Maintain Total Recordable Incident Rate as per set standards
• Comply with all legal requirements of the Occupational, Health & Safety Act
• Safely leadership, drive a safe positive culture within employees and ensure that EHS systems maintained, developed and implemented
• Plant walks to engage operators and seek opportunity for improvements
• EHS process/procedure awareness training

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS/ PEOPLE:
• Establishment and maintenance of effective two-way communication channels between management and staff
• Staff management – Discipline, grievances, training needs etc.
• Keeping abreast of matters on trade union activity
• Performance Appraisals on a yearly basis
• Succession plan for key roles
• Monitor temporary labor on a monthly basis

QUALITY:
• Reduce COPQ
• Active implementation of the Corp. COPQ Program
• Ensure site is ISO 900x ready or ISO 900x certified
• Ensure the site is legal compliant to operate safely and produce product
• Quality system leadership, drive the ISO quality system at the site and that it is developed, maintained, implemented.
• Annually develop Quality & EHS target’s and objectives
• Biannually chair ISO 9001 Business review meeting, prepare information and presentations
• Quarterly EHS site reviews with representatives and stake holders

FINANCIALS, INVENTORY, CASH & CAPITAL, PRODUCTIVITY:
• Annually submit operations planning budget for review
• Monthly Sales shipments and operation production planning & demand forecasts
• Monthly reporting and forecasting of operations volumes, inventory value and costs
• Weekly review of shipments and operation planning,
• Weekly review that SAP production orders and material requirements are maintained
• Weekly pulse operations reports for month today, last estimate operations volumes, inventory value and costs
• Update site productivity in GCP productivity tracker
• Update HR factory admin and DMC overtime & leave tracker
• Weekly safety reviews talks
• Weekly review of raw material forecast demand and requesting admin to place orders
• Monthly review on quality batch pass rate
• Review R&D QC checks on new formulations for commercial trials and business reviews
• Add material information form to business MoC system, ensure costing estimate and bill of materials is correct for SAP entry
• Process owner of capital expenditure requests
• Annual personal development review of supervisor
• Initiate material write offs in EAS system
• Manage two stock cycle counts a year
• Monthly Review and update D.M.C product file
• Approve costs in SAP & Web cycle based on D.O.A
• Perform tasks & reports requested by operations leaders and direct manager
• P&L tracking, financial adjustments (accruals, journals)

PRODUCTION:
• Review, update and develop Standard Operating Procedures for all tasks in the plant as required

SUPPLY CHAIN:
Raw Material Planning:
• Update ROP worksheets, calculate consumption requirements
• Update MRP worksheets, capture actual consumption, determine ROP per material
• Review update SAP with LE & FC
• Place & communicate orders with suppliers
Procurement:
• Review direct procurement (materials)

DMC Control:
• Update DMC template
• Add/Change BOMs
• Update actual landed costing of raw materials
• Create monthly DMC report for Commercial
Inventory:
• EAS Approval system
• Inventory FC
• Review Inventory count control

Requirements:
• Degree or National Diploma in Engineering or Chemistry
• Diploma in Business or Operations Management
• Previous Plant Manager experience within manufacturing concern
• Practical bias
• Good communication skills to all levels
• Human Resource management and organizational skills
• Safety Training
• Computer literate
• SAP knowledge