Operational Excellence Manager at Engen

What you'll be doing

• Drive operations excellence strategy and improvement in production capacity by line-balancing 
• Sequencing changeovers, driving implementation of operations excellence initiative to create a culture of process improvement, 
• Develop business insights derived from process understandings to help internal and external customers identify constrains in their processes and highlight potential areas of improvement
• Reduce the Stock Loss with Vessel discharges. 
• Ensure all risk of cross contamination is identified prior to Blending. 
• Reducing manufacturing cost through downtime reduction 
• Improved production through-put and by removing cycle time inefficiencies & waste to improve all production inefficiency.
• Improving plant manufacturing through-put, performance and reducing total cost of quality non-conformance by focusing on: Safety, Schedule, Cost and Quality 
• Ensure Production constrains are identified timeously. 
• Drive End-to-end Operations Process Transformation
• Ensure Equipment Integrity & Quality Assurance is met. 
• Implement standardized operations KPI framework.
• Ensure Shutdown plan start up plan with SOP.
• Drive Closure of all internal and external Plant audits. 
• Be actively involved in conceptual and basic engineering of all Operation Project 

Who you are

• You have worked in a Petrochemical industry.
• You have excellent interpersonal, problem-solving skills.
•  You are passionate, team player and can work independently.
• You have excellent skills in the petroleum industry.
• You have a reputation for multiple projects.
• You are an expert in planning and organizing

What you've done Before

EXPERIENCE MINIMUM

• NQF Level 7 (Degree in Chemical Engineering)
• 5 years Operational Excellence experience within Refining/ Lubes Manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of ISO systems ISO 9001, 14001
• 2 years People Management experience

ADVANTAGEOUS EXPERIENCE

• Green belt certification
• 5 years Lubricants/Petrochem industry
• 4 years Petrochemical 
• Lean & 6 Sigma experience