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Manufacturing : Production Manager - 16(2) appointee From 2022-08 To 2022-10 Duties
- Responsible for the operation of Rosslyn plant in terms of production, quality, cost, delivery, technical, safety, and human resources.
- Manage all aspects of the production through working with Production Foreman for delivering, and where possible, exceeding, the key performance indicators across shifts.
- Improve using Lean tools to reduce costs, improve production and quality.
Productivity:
- Achievement of overall KPI.
- Ensure plant and machine availability.
- Achieve ≥95% adherence to production plan.
- Reduced down time due to equipment breakdown.
Cost:
- Ensure raw and packing material usage variance to be within budget
- Ensure labour and head count control as per budget or agreed changes
- Ensure cost per case as per budget.
Safety:
- Section 16(2) appointee - Assumes legal responsibility in terms of the OHS Act.
- Ensure that Safety standards are met to maintain LTIFR of 0.
- Compliance with Statutory and Company requirements.
- Achieving audit scores and close findings timeously.
Quality:
- Ensure that non-conformance is challenged, and countermeasures are agreed and implemented.
- Ensure all external and internal auditory standards and improvement requirements are met.
- Maintain compliance with company policies, GMP, and good housekeeping practices, ensuring no product recalls.
- Maintain document procedures and checklists [IMS].
- Maintain quality standards as per ISO accreditation.
People:
- Monitor and correct staff attendance.
- Strengthen front line leadership [Foreman and Team Leaders].
- Implement succession planning for key positions identified.
- Maintain High morale.
Breweries : Factory Production Manager (Shift) From 2020-08 To 2022-07 Duties
Productivity:
- Ensure KPIs are met.
- Ensure OEE is achieved.
- Ensure ATS of 95%
- Ensure OTIF
Cost:
- Take necessary actions to manage production costs and improve profitability.
- Operate within and meet Budget requirements.
- Maintain Budgeted or Improve Recovery to Expense Ratio
Safety:
- Ensure that Safety standards are met and maintained
- Assumes legal responsibility in terms of the OHS Act for the area
- LTIFR of 0
Quality and Food Safety:
- Ensure 100% OTIF and customer satisfaction
- Ensure that Food Safety standards are met and maintained
- Assume responsibility for proper failure prevention strategies of production equipment and facilities
- Take necessary action to eliminate delays ensuring adherence to production and shipping schedules, including prevention of deviations
- Maintain compliance with company policies, GMP/GHP, safety standards, and good housekeeping practices, ensuring no product recalls
- Investigate and take appropriate action related to product/process variations
- Keep Scrap/Losses at a minimum
- Adhere to regulatory compliance
Productivity:
- Ensure Daily and Weekly Production Targets are met
- Improve and Maintain Machine Availability
- Improve Productivity through implementation and maintaining of LEAN manufacturing principles
- Ensure adequate resources are available to manufacture product (equipment, supplies, and labour)
- Conducts continuous review and follow-up on projects to ensure completion of assigned work.
Dispatching:
- Tracking inventory deployment, receipt/dispatch operations, inspection and storage of shipments and deliveries.
- Tracking product availability and ensuring effective FIFO rules are applied.
- Tracking third-party logistics distribution performance where applicable.
- Managing the pick, pack, and shipping of product for deliveries.
- Tracking inventory accuracy and managing discrepancies.
- Manage the deployment and capability of team.
Cost:
- Take necessary actions to manage production costs and improve profitability
- Operate within and meet Budget requirements
- Maintain Budgeted or Better Recovery to Expense Ration
- Work in a team environment with other department management to coordinate a production schedule to achieve required deadlines, objectives and budgets
People and Communications:
- Manage and coordinate activities and performance of assigned staff to ensure the achievement of department OEE objectives and performance goals.
- Develop department employees through orientation, training, establishment of objectives, communication of rules and policies, while building employee morale and motivation.
- Evaluate performance and production of staff; maintains records of performance.
- Improve Employee Attendance target 98%
- Provide leadership in the implementation of Mini Business Units (MBU) intervention
Performance Management:
- Advise department management on matters relating to daily operations and makes recommendations for improvements when feasible
- Setting and evaluation of KPIs for department & team members
- Audit own performance and recommend own objectives and standards of performance
- Ensure and Maintain high levels of performance
- Review, perform/ensure investigations are done effectively and in a timely manner.
- Provide positive and motivating example for employees
Agriculture : Manufacturing Director (Self employed) From 2019-01 To 2020-03 Duties
- Daily management of the piggery enterprise.
- Breeding stock, AI & conception rate.
- Feeding & feed orders.
- Animal health & medication.
- Record keeping, reports & general admin.
- Staff management in the piggery.
Manufacturing Pets Food : Operations Shift Manager From 2015-05 To 2018-12 Duties
Customer:
- To ensure 100% OTIF and customer satisfaction
- To continuously improve our delivery and consistency of quality of product, packaging and palletisation.
- To continuously work to reduce customer complaints
Quality and Food Safety:
- To ensure all CCP and OPRP procedures are being met and managed as per procedure
- To manage and communicate any non-conformances as per procedure
- To ensure all associates are competent
- To monitor and enforce a high level of GMP at all times
- To ensure all associates comply any company policies at all times
- To manage that weekly cleaning is of high standard by proactive planning, good communication and auditing.
- Ensure associates are trained and have the necessary tools to clean.
- To support all initiatives for ISO9001, ISO18001, ISO22001 and LRQA
People:
- To ensure a safe working environment for all (associates/contractors and temporary staff)
- To report all near misses and accidents in the appropriate manner
- To manage an efficient and effective shift change over
- To ensure all temporary staff are inducted
- To develop and maintain a motivated and engaged team.
- To enforce all company policies and procedures.
- To communicate well and receive feedback positively
- To manage under performance in a proactive and consistent manner
- To ensure that appraisals are held at targeted time
- To ensure that all associates have the tools they need for the job.
Environment:
- To actively and consistently reduce all wastes where possible
- To reduce all utility usage (electricity, gas and water) where possible
- To effectively use all recycling routes for any waste stream.
- To support all environmental issues and ISO14001
Food and Beverages : Production Team Leader From 2011-02 To 2015-04 Duties
Safety:
- Ensure compliance with all Company policies and safety procedures and regulatory requirements
- Maintain safety and food safety standard (HACCP)
Quality:
- Comply with quality standard as stipulated Coca Cola International
- Ensures that the packaging process is controlled such that all quality standards are maintained.
- Ensure that NCR are completed and closed.
- Maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and process control sheets in compliance with Quality Management Systems
Cost:
- Ensures departmental budget is monitored, controlled & reduced where possible
- Eradicate product waste
Deliveries:
- Achieve and improve all KPI targets.
- Supply full beverages to warehouse and agree on stock numbers.
Human Resources
- Motivate and manage human resource consistently, including discipline, administration, training, IR climate, absenteeism.
Drive Continuous Improvement
- Implement 5S
- Visual Management
- Waste Management
Glass Manufacturers : Shift Manager From 2008-03 To 2011-01 Duties
Safety:
- Ensure compliance with all Company policies and safety procedures and regulatory requirements
- Maintain safety and food safety standard (HACCP)
- Keep DIFR below 1%
Quality:
- Comply with quality standard as stipulated in company QMS
- Ensures that manufacturing activities are in accordance with GMPs, HACCP requirements
- Maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and process control sheets in compliance with Quality Management Systems
Cost:
- Ensures departmental budget is monitored, controlled & reduced where possible
- Eradicate product waste
- Eliminate reworks by ensuring first time quality
Deliveries:
- Achieve and improve all KPI targets
- Instigate investigation into day to day variances from plan, i.e. safety, quality, waste or output variances from expectations and devise and implement corrective action plans
Human Resources
- Motivate and manage human resource consistently, including discipline, administration, training, IR climate, absenteeism.
Drive Continuous Improvement
- Implement 5S
- Visual Management
- Waste Management
Consumer Products - FMCG : Shift Manager From 2002-09 To 2008-02 Duties
Production Efficiencies:
- Manage labour allocation.
- Ensure equipment is operated in accordance with design specifications.
- Implement and maintain Visual Short Interval Control Indicator reporting system.
- Ensure that down time records are completed, collated and information is forwarded to cost analyst.
- Design and streamline workflow.
Equipment maintenance:
- Ensure that machine operators are complying with SOP's.
- Allocate resources to breakdowns, ensure work is scheduled and carried out.
Food safety and hygiene:
- Ensure that HACCP audits are carried out.
- Ensure Good Manufacturing Practices are maintained (housekeeping).
Production Costing:
- Ensure excess raw material is returned.
- Implement measures to determine actual raw material and packing usage.
- Waste/rework management.
Quality:
- Ensure adherence to recipe, raw material, in-process and final product specifications.
- Create a culture of quality awareness.
- Investigate and determine reasons for non-conformances.
- Implement measures to reduce non-conformances.
- Ensure that employees are adhering to laid down safety procedures.
- Investigate and compile reports in case of accidents.
- Ensure safety check sheets are completed and forwarded to safety forum.
- Liaise with clinic and ensure Occupational Health checks.
Safety:
Management of Human Resources:
- Conduct performance reviews and appraisals.
- Either initiate, investigate and/or chair disciplinary and grievance procedures.
- Build team morale and motivate staff to higher levels of performance.
- Compile training matrix and determine training needs.
Consumer Products - FMCG : Process Leader From 1998-12 To 2002-02 Duties
Production Efficiencies:
- Quality Control and Assurance.
- Supervising the production of dairy products from mixing of raw materials, pasteurising, incubation and cooling of products.
- The job involves the operation of machinery such as centrifugal pumps, plate heat exchangers, flow meters and agitators.
- The process is controlled by PLCs which obtain real time data feedback from motors and probes.
- Should the data be disturbed during process we use SCADA program to manipulate the data.
- Monitor the plant sanitation i.e., checks chemical concentration, dosing time, sterilisation time and temperature.
Consumer Products - FMCG : In-Service Training From 1997-01 To 1998-11 Duties
Quality Management
- Raw material analysis and Finished product grading and analysis
- Mass, process and packaging control audit
- Quality control of cooling water
- Validation of procedures and standards
- Calibration of equipment and methodologies
Administration
- Time sheet and leave forms to be filled on time
- Clock-card control
HR and IR
- Discipline – control personnel
- Training, Motivating and Delegating
Projects
- Trials: Arrange and supervise factory trials
- Evaluation: Ensure that factory trials are properly evaluated analytically, physically & sensorially.
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