Foreman

Our client are looking for a Foreman to join thier Cape Town team. As a foreman you will be responsible to plan, organize and control the production facility of the CapeTown factory/ plant in order to produce the required quantity of roof tiles and accessories within agreed quality and cost specifications.

• Production Planning communicate daily with the commercial manager, sales and dispatch planning team
• To plan maintenance schedule.
• To assist with problem solving on breakdowns on the main production line.
• Ensure safety levels are optimal and good housekeeping in factory.
• Yard control to plan, organized and control the production facility to produce tiles and fittings of the correct quality and cost at the correct time
• Management of stock levels including critical spares and raw materials and ensure procurement procedures are adhered to.
• Management stock counts and audits with finance and stock/ inventory control in system.
• Manage stock losses and variance tracking, production breakages.
• Negotiate with all suppliers of both raw material and maintenance spares for the timeous supply of materials at the best possible rate
• Maintain good industrial relations, experience within a unionized environment, and adhere to procedures between factory staff and management through the established IR procedures.
• Labour productivity, efficiencies and unit production costs.
• SHEQ Management and compliance with ISO 14001 & ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001
• Develop and motivate production staff to achieve agreed objectives regarding efficiency, quality, industrial relations, health and safety
• Maintain, review and develop the SABS Quality Management System to establish and maintain quality standards
• Controls to manage shrinkage and breakages.
• Management security breaches.
• Ensure implementation of the 5 S system.

• Microsoft package & PLC machines (Siemens)
• Lock out procedures are followed.
• Fault finding procedures
• Prioritizing of activities with limited resources available