Production Superintendent - Sasolburg at Omnia (Pty) LTD

Qualifications

• Matric (Maths and Science)
• B. Tech (Chemical engineering) or B.Sc Engineering (Chemical)
• Lean six Sigma – Black Belt will be an advantage

Experience

• 5 - 10 years’ experience in similar role in a Manufacturing environment 

Duties

• Investigate all inidents (safety & environment)
• Perform process safety audits
• Tracking and liasing with stakeholders on mitigating actions from investigations
• Closing external and internal findings
• Update task based risk assessments
• Update baseline risk assesments
• PTO
• Coach new employees on plant
• OHSA 8.2(i) appointment
• Coach existing employees on plant
• Manage leading and lagging indicators with team leaders
• Develop, train and mentor on quality control procedures
• Develop SOPs and WIs (owner )
• Co-ordinate training of employees minimising cost and business impact
• Investigation poor quality product NCRs
• Monitor and escalate raw material quality
• Monitor and control line budgets (PPE, staff welfare, cleaining, overtime, etc.)
• Report cost expense and mitigation measures to management
• Continuous improvement on cost reduction
• Ensure we produce as per plan (minimising stock outs and excess production)
• Investigate stock losses as per monthly recon report
• Review losses and waste with multi-discipline team
• Propose solutions to losses
• Promote and particiapate in problem solving
• Encourage an innovative team environment
• Perform stock control (monitoring and planning)
• Reconcile usage variances against the BOMs
• Liase with supply planning dept about the production demand (plan, sequence, expectations)
• Escalate delays with supply chain (customers)
• Perform standby function
• Lead task forces to assist in implementing TW and VM baseline practices
• Leading and managing change in the plant
• EDD discussion with team leaders
• Reviewing KPIs
• Provide input on maintenance planning (equipment specific)
• Identify equipment performance deviations