Divisional Project Manager - Kempton Park at AVI Limited

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

• Leverage your process expertise and ability to manage multiple complex projects within a manufacturing environment in order to effect capacity enabling changes across the Snackworks factories
• Apply your productivity-focused project management skills to implement solutions across the sites
• Lead the site project engineering teams
• Manage capital projects from the justification stage across the project cycle to accelerate equipment selection, commissioning, performance ramp up and maintenance and training integration by following sound project management principles
• Establish capital expenditure to improve health & safety, productivity, capacity and efficiency for each factory within the division
• Project planning and tracking to ensure deadlines and objectives are met
• Execute project follow up and ensure successful implementation
• Coordinate implementation of projects in terms of change management and training needs
• Lean manufacturing approach to the project life cycle
• Report to management with progress of current and planned projects
• Establish a 5-year plan for each factory
• Ensure that approved capital expenditure delivers the commitments at each factory within the division
• Implementation of appropriate manufacturing systems to enable process and operational improvements at each factory within the division

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:                                                                   

• 5+ Years’ experience within a similar role
• Relevant FMCG experience in the Food environment

Qualifications:

• Completed Higher National Diploma/ BTech or BSC Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)
• A professional engineering qualification combined with keen business acumen and FMCG Food manufacturing experience is indispensable in this environment

Additional Requirements:

• MS Projects
• MS Office
• AutoCAD knowledge
• In-depth knowledge of FMCG plant equipment
• At least 5 years’ experience in project management
• Presentation skills
• Analytical/investigative nature
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Competencies:

• Meeting deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Planning and organising
• Thinking analytically
• Interpreting data
• Maintaining productivity
• Documenting facts
• Upholding Standards
• Minimising Risk