Permanent - Manufacturing Production Manager - Ekurhuleni (East Rand) - South Africa

Production managers will be responsible for the technical management, supervision, and control of manufacturing processes in production.

• Develop, evaluate, and improve current manufacturing processes.
• Working together with department managers/supervisors, to ensure products are manufactured to a certain quality standard.
• Assessing project and resource requirements
• Re negotiating timescales or schedules as necessary
• Selecting, ordering and purchasing materials
• Organising the repair and routine maintenance of production equipment
• Handle logistics, warehousing and stock of raw materials used in production.
• Manage all teams within your production department.
• Create and implement organisational/production changes on an operative level.
• Focus on growing business and revenue by implementing necessary changes to product/production line to enter new markets or grow existing territories.
• Excellent communication, numeracy, and computer literacy skills. (Full Microsoft suite)
• Good people management skills and management of staff.
• Identifying problems and implementing preventative strategies to minimise risk.
• Being able to develop good working relationships and trust with various teams.
• Strong problem solving skills, analytic ability and be very detail oriented.
• Working well with many different departments and external suppliers.
• Always keeping the end user/customer in mind.
• Being results and deadline driven.

• Min 5 years' experience as a production manager in a manufacturing environment (non negotiable)
• Knowledge of Mining Screening industry.
• Knowledge of Tooling (Dies and Moulds)
• Knowledge of Injection moulding machines
• Technical skills