DEPUTY FACTORY MANAGER

Jean Fowlds Consultancy; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing consultancy in South Africa is seeking a Deputy Factory Manager to oversee operations and ensure product quality. The successful candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in engineering, strong leadership skills, and a focus on safety and continuous improvement. This role demands a strategic thinker capable of driving results and managing diverse teams effectively.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of engineering or process experience in relevant industries.
• Experience in managing teams and projects effectively.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the development and execution of maintenance strategies.
• Lead and manage factory teams to meet production targets.
• Drive safety compliance and risk management processes.

Skills

Engineering discipline knowledge

Financial management

Asset management

Safety compliance

Continuous improvement

Education

NQF Level 6 / 7 Degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

DEPUTY FACTORY MANAGER

Level of Work : Senior Management

Direct report (solid line) : Senior Factory Manager

Direct report (dotted line) : Chief Executive Officer

Minimum Education required : NQF Level 6 / 7 Degree in an Engineering discipline - Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or Metallurgy, Millwright, or equivalent qualification

A qualification in financial management is advantageous.

GCC is advantageous.

Minimum Experience required : 5 years of post-qualification engineering or process experience in FMCG, Chemical, and Processing, or Mining industry.

The main responsibility of the Factory manager is to deliver products of maximum quality in a cost-effective, safe, and reliable manner, while maintaining the factory assets in a cost-effective way to ensure safe and reliable production. The Factory manager is responsible for leading, directing, and managing all aspects of the business to achieve the desired growth, profit, and strategic business objectives or ambitions of the business unit.

Primary Responsibilities

Task & responsibilities

Development of asset preservation strategy

• Ensure the development of the asset preservation strategy, AM objectives, and operational plans.
• Responsible for the asset register remaining useful and comparing it to the current asset condition to determine the remaining preservation strategy.
• Evaluate the previous years budget and expenses to determine the following maintenance budget and Asset preservation strategy.
• Responsible for the performance of the plant and identifying focus areas and new performance targets.

Implementation of asset preservation strategy

• Ensure maintenance standards are developed for the department.
• Ensure cost-effective and safe maintenance execution.
• Translate the asset preservation strategy and AM objectives into plans, budgets, and KPIs for the maintenance function and provide the resources to execute these plans. Allocate the budgets and performance targets to the relevant heads of department.

Management of Maintenance Effectiveness

• Ensure the effective execution of preventive and reactive maintenance work on the factorys assets to optimize their performance at minimal cost and risk.
• Evaluate the work orders for the week (status, backlog, schedule, compliance, performance) and address any problems with the relevant heads of department.
• Review and monitor the cost of maintenance (SAP & Excel maintenance sheet) and address any problems with the relevant heads of department.
• Evaluate critical plant / equipment status to determine the scheduling of planned maintenance.
• Drive quality and eliminate defects through continuous improvement.
• Drive continuous improvement in process and maintenance (KPI review meetings; defect elimination; small projects).
• Appraise all continuous improvement tasks / opportunities.
• Prioritise, plan, and resource CI projects.
• Ensures the master tile specifications are valid.
• Analyse the customers complaints to gain insight into problems to eliminate inefficiencies.
• Monitor daily / weekly QC inspection from the Lab to identify areas for efficiencies. Recruit, Train & Develop, Lead, Manage, and direct People.

Recruit critical technical skills

• Manage apprenticeship pipelines and their assignment and
• Manage and lead the team.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to develop and improve team performance.

Source and manage relationships with external and internal suppliers, OEM, and shared resources.

Organize workflow by assigning responsibilities and preparing schedules.

• Develop people pipeline for business continuity.
• Ensure employee accountability for KPIs.
• Lead change management.
• Set clear delegations (authorities, accountabilities, objective setting)
• Promote competency and capability development.
• Lead and enable collaboration.

Safety, Health, and Environment

• Ensure compliance with SHERQ regulations and system.
• Ensure safety Policies and Procedures are implemented and adhered to.

Monitor and ensure that (Monthly, weekly, quarterly, and annual) safety inspection is done, and records are kept.

• Plans and coordinates Internal & External audits (ISO9001; OHS Audit; Risk audit).
• Monitor time and attendance (overtime, time worked, absenteeism) and address problem areas with the responsible department head.
• Ensure the safe use and regular maintenance of process equipment.

Product development

Drive new product development.

Monitor market and sales trends to ensure product range is fashionable, sustainable, and value for money.

Investigate and research new technology and market trends. Productivity

Productivity

Set daily / weekly / monthly production targets and objectives and communicate them to the support and process teams.

• Develop and implement action plans to ensure production targets are met.
• Ensure production outputs are according to specifications.
• Schedule weekly KPI meetings to review progress against targets.
• Manage all department performance against KPIs.

Compile and submit quarterly board reports (requirements as determined by CEO)

• Monitor the quality of the specification of raw materials.

Stakeholder Management : Key internal role relationships

• Chairman
• CEO
• Deputy Factory Manager
• Department / Team coordinators
• Tile / Sanwrights
• Warehouse coordinator
• Maintenance coordinator
• Business partners (HR; IT; Payroll)

Key external relationships

• Customers
• External Auditors
• Consultants, Civil, Electrical, Fabrication, Other
• OEM (technical support), Foreign (imported) and local spare parts suppliers.
• Associations
• Raw materials and other goods suppliers

Competencies Behavioural Competencies

• Self-motivated and interdependent
• Ambitious, Result Orientation
• Humility and teachable nature, willing to learn from subordinates, peers and superiors.
• Sound Judgment and Decision Making
• Drives Performance and Holds People Accountable
• Plans, Coordinates, and executes well.
• Problem Solver
• Change Leader
• Innovation
• Concern for Safety, Health, and the Environment
• Develops others (Building resources in terms of people, succession planning)
• Teamwork & Collaboration

Technical Competencies

• Articulate the organisational asset management risk approach.
• Promote the impact and value of asset management.
• Monitor performance and benefit realisation.
• Establish processes to determine asset criticality.
• Develop and evaluate contracts and contractors for criticality.

Develop and evaluate contracts and contractors for critical services such as compressed air, water gas and raw materials).

SHE Risk Management

Integrates Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) risk management into all support and process activities to ensure optimal business performance.

• Pro-actively identifies, assesses, prioritise, and mitigates against potential risks.
• Continuously identifies opportunities to enhance SHE performance to protect employees, contractors, customers, and company assets.
• Effectively embeds leading SHE management practices, identifies areas for improvement and recommends actions to address gaps.