Production Unit Manager

Job Description

Career Opportunity with L’Oreal South Africa – Production Unit Manager

 

KEY JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

To ensure the delivery of products to Client Companies, while implementing the L’Oreal’s industrial policy

  • Coordinating a team of 100 to 160 people (operators, fork-lift truck operators, technicians, supervisors, engineers)
  • Organizing and planning the production unit’s activities to respond to the requirements of the Client Companies
  • Checking and sizing the resources (human, equipments, surfaces, procedures) with regard to medium-term requirements
  • Transmitting and applying the industrial policy rules in terms of Quality, safety, organisation, equipment performance and cost control, in cooperation with the other factory departments
  • Channeling choices and validating new equipment with the support of the skills of services internal and external
  • Establishing the 3-year plan and the budget every year in terms of investments, overhead, costs, standard time and standard losses
  • Monitoring and improving the performance of the production unit on the basis of key business indicators (accident rate, rejected lots, RFT, uptime ratios, production plan achievement rate, etc.)
  • Developing the capacities of colleagues to enable them to take responsibility for the main development lines (by coaching, training, etc.
  • Evaluating colleagues, particularly on the basis of one-to-one interviews
 
 
PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
  • Tidiness and cleanliness of the production unit
  • The achievement rate of the production plan
  • Fulfillment of safety, quality, uptime ratios, efficiency and cost objectives
  • The degree to which the team complies with the production unit’s objectives
  • Leadership
  • Determined effort
  • A rapid reaction capacity in decision-making
  • Relationship skills
  • Anticipation in difficult circumstances
  • Process (manufacturing and packaging techniques)
  • Production optimization methods (KANBAN, SMED)
  • Coordination skills
  • Planning skills
 
EDUCATION AND TRAINING REQUIRED
 
  • Further education in technology