Description 

• We are seeking a Plant Manager to oversee the daily operations and activities on the production floor to ensure the optimization of resources and ensure all instituted production policies and procedures are followed.
• This person not only drives production operations, but is critical to the development and maintenance of all resources to achieve company’s goals.
• Overall, the plant manager is responsible for ensuring that the manufacturing or production facility is operating efficiently, safely, and in compliance with regulations, while also meeting production goals and delivering high-quality products.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Responsible for production output, and product quality.
• Plan, organized, directed and run optimum day-to-day production schedules and workflows to ensure maximum efficiency, and productivity and exceed the company’s established production expectation.
• Oversee the efficiency of all assets in the factory (machine and human), to ensure the factory consistently runs efficiently, quickly, safely, and smoothly.
• Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining quality standards
• Allocate both human and material resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
• Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus.
• Monitor production operations and implement corrective action.
• Develop and maintain a culture of trust, efficiency, diligence, shared purpose with the production workforce.
• Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime.
• Develop and commit to factory safety procedures and ensure compliance across board.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
• Address employees’ issues or grievances and administer collective bargaining agreements.
• Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts.
• Design and implement production and factory processes.
• Other duties as reasonably assigned

Qualifications

• University Degree preferably in Business Management, or Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum 7 years experience working in a plant/factory of similar operations.
• A Minimum of 6 years experience as a plant/factory manager.
• Certifications in Business Management

Qualities:

• Demonstrates professional ethics and integrity
• Team player
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritise own workload
• Problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage conflicting work demands
• Demonstrable attention to detail
• Able to work under pressure and meet short deadlines
• Must be very hands-on with a highly proactive and positive can do’ attitude.