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