Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence Director - Durban at RCL Foods

• Currently we are seeking an experienced Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence Director to provide strategic and tactical direction and leadership in the areas of engineering, asset management, continuous improvement and manufacturing excellence. Key focus areas are to deliver break-through performance improvement, effective capital planning, optimal asset utilization and efficiency savings. This role can be based in Johannesburg or Durban.
• If you are passionate about driving team collaboration, transformation and delivering top notch results, then this role is for YOU!

Minimum Requirements    

• B.Sc. (Eng) or B.Eng. preferable but other relative tertiary qualifications will be considered.
• Registration as a professional engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) would be advantageous.
• Minimum 10 years’ broad-based engineering and manufacturing experience in and FMCG or related industries.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience at executive/senior level within a matrix organisation as either head of engineering, or head of manufacturing excellence (or similar), or both.
• Relevant senior management experience in managing a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Willingness to travel extensively.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Strategic Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence-

• Develop and drive the implementation of the RCL FOODS engineering and manufacturing excellence strategy, plans, vision, and goals, and ensure alignment with the overall business strategy.
• Provide specialist advice to the business pertaining to engineering and manufacturing excellence matters.
• Provide business partnership and support at an executive team level and within business units, and monitor the implementation of engineering and manufacturing excellence initiatives and priorities
• Ensure engineering and manufacturing excellence initiatives are key considerations when planning business activities.

Engineering Projects-

• Capital planning, prioritisation and allocation of funding as well as capacity planning oversite.
• Major engineering project scoping, management, and execution (ownership of scope, project management and contractor relationship).
• Project engagement and oversight (develop and monitor project governance principles and provide oversight).

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)-

• EAM program reporting and asset care (develop roadmap and conduct audits on status).

Engineering Safety Standards-

• Ensure that all operations comply with relevant safety standards and regulations.
• Act as the designated Section 16.2 (of the Occupational Health and Safety Act) appointee for the business.

Manufacturing Process and Practice-

• Own the Stock to Cost (S2C) business process.
• Develop and monitor fit-for-purpose manufacturing practices and standards for the business.
• Benchmark and monitor cost of production and coach / challenge relevant production managers to drive improvements.

Continuous Improvement -

• Design, coordinate and monitor a fit-for-purpose continuous improvement (CI) and savings roadmap.
• Monitor the savings project pipeline and provide oversight to the executive team.
• Develop a team of continuous improvement professionals within the group who will provide support for key CI and productivity projects.

Capability Building-

• Develop engineering and technical capability building programs in support of the company’s engineering and manufacturing strategy.
• Develop manufacturing capability building programs to enable world class manufacturing across the business.
• Lead the Lean Six Sigma - LSS (and/or other relevant programs) training program and track progress of delivery of various improvement programs delivered by LSS practitioners.
• Champion talent development and succession planning for engineering and manufacturing.