South African National Plant Manager – Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Our client, a Resource & Technology based company that develops, produces and markets worldwide a broad range of specialty mineral, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products is looking to recruit a Plant Manager. The successful candidate MUST be a citizen of South Africa with an excellent maintenance background in a multinational company and vast experience and knowledge of lean and quality, environmental and health & safety systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the site operates within all necessary statutory & corporate safety requirements.
• Achieve customer requirements at lowest delivered cost and required quality levels.
• Deliver plant financial performance.
• Maintain systems, communications and training in health & safety, quality and environment (ISO).
• Drive operational excellence programme and be a champion of standard work procedures.
• Lead continuous improvement activities, encouraging all team members to participate in Kaizen events.
• Lead operations team and prioritise their development for the future.
• Maximise utilisation and efficiency of plant and equipment, ensuring a robust program of TPM.
• Ensure compliance with all internal and external reporting requirements.
• Manage manufacturing projects, product transfer, domestically and internationally, capital investments and process improvements.
• Implement and drive Total Productive Maintenance Programme.
• Supervise the performance of staff by setting goals and objectives through regular performance evaluations.
• Communicate and support all company policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Must have a degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience working at management level.
• Must have a vast maintenance background and the ability to direct internal and contract service.
• Proven world class safety management and implementation experience is mandatory.
• Must have a working background in a manufacturing company.
• Must have experience working with an ERP System with an added advantage working with Oracle.
• Excellent business acumen with strong customer facing, commercial and financial skills.
• Must be a natural leader with excellent interpersonal skills.

Monthly gross salary: Rand. 55,000 - 58,333 (Approx. 3,500 - 3,742 USD) plus 10% bonus

Deadline: 25th June 2016  
        
Applications:
To apply, please follow the link:  http://bit.ly/1UwxIJ6 

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