Description
Overview

• Lead and support Continuous Improvement (CI) and Operational Excellence initiatives. 

Responsibilities

• Process Alignement
• Develop and publish deadlines, targets and measures, and communicate departmental targets and outputs.
• Plan, prioritise and review technical plans for the improvement of production and facility equipment.
• Facilitate meetings to analyse process input variables and interpret impact upon customers’ needs.
• Develop and update process documentation and training materials to support new or modified processes.
• Evaluate, justify and qualify changes in existing processes or processes equipment.
• Review production information to understand methods and activities in manufacturing and services. This includes, but is not limited to, production schedules, process flows and engineering specs
• Project management and coordination
• Manage CI, site loss elimination and lean improvement projects to provide greater value, implementing relevant tools and processes.
• Provide technical support to SCM, writing technical specifications
• Continuous improvement (CI)
• Focus on measurable quality, service and cost improvements.
• Work with departments to develop training material pertaining to processes, raw materials, equipment operations and operator safety.
• Elicit production and operational issues from operators.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve equipment, manufacturing process and facilities issues.
• Standardise/ modify existing manufacturing processes to increase robustness, reliability, and compliance and reduce production costs, lead times, inventories, downtime and waste.
• Implement and monitor corrective action and innovative action within set target dates.
• Design control systems to minimize and resolve production issues and project costs.
• Reporting
• Prepare technical reports for all work performed.
• Present process related data and communicates issues related to projects for review and discussion.

Requirements
Skills Required

Background/experience

• At least 3 5 years’ relevant manufacturing experience.
• National Diploma in Industrial Engineering or related discipline.
• At least 1 years Project Management Experience.
• At least 2 years Lean Manufacturing Experience.

Specific job skills

• Computer literacy
• Strong mechanical and process skills and a good working knowledge of control, logic and operational principles.
• Problem solving and action planning skills.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Understanding of variable and period costs.

Competencies

• Meeting Deadlines
• Finalising Outputs
• Making Decisions
• Customer Awareness
• Interrogating Information