Factory Manager

Winning Form; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Winning Form is seeking an experienced Production/Factory Manager in Durban to lead the printing operation, supervise staff, ensure deadlines, monitor processes and costs, and maintain quality. The role demands hands-on leadership in a busy manufacturing setting and focus on safety, compliance and timely delivery.

You will drive purchasing, supplier relations, budgeting, HR-related tasks, and process improvements while expanding revenue streams.

Qualifications

• Working experience as a Printing/Factory Manager
• Managerial experience

Responsibilities

• Manage the production of the printing business, monitoring staff, production processes, packing, machinery usage, wastage and raw material usage.
• Ensure production deadlines are met to support timely distribution.
• Ensure warehouse security at end of each shift.
• Order equipment and stock items as needed.
• Review and approve final invoices for payment.
• Review and approve bio time reports, meal allowances for factory staff.
• Create and approve all purchase orders within your authority.
• Manage supplier relationships and negotiate favorable terms.
• Manage petty cash payments, storage and administration.
• Weekly assessment of all printing machinery and conduct repairs.
• Assist with transportation of factory staff and travel to outsourced agencies.
• Engage suppliers for machine parts and consumables; negotiate best prices.
• Implement and use a standard costing system.
• Review costing reports to manage wastage and costs.
• Continuously monitor production costs and wastage levels.
• Execute regular tenders for key raw materials; maintain backup suppliers.
• Innovate with shifts, capacity and run timing for external revenue growth.
• Ensure accurate counting of print runs, raw materials and dispatch books.
• Ensure accurate packing of routes.
• Ensure accurate reconciliations and production schedules.
• Manage the production team: time and attendance, leave, remuneration, disciplinary actions, performance reviews, rostering and shifts.
• Assist with creation/maintenance of roles, job descriptions and KPIs for subordinates.
• Enforce ethical, honest, transparent, fair work environment.
• Source training for staff as needed.
• Provide adequate recognition of staff efforts.
• Foster morale and team building.
• Assist HR with recruitment and interviews.
• Recruitment and related interviews.
• Induction and onboarding of new team members.
• Fair leave planning of less than 30 days.
• Monitor sick leave.
• Approve leave, bio time and phone usage.
• Implement HR initiatives.
• Monitor employee productivity and breaks.
• Approve and monitor overtime and meal allowances.
• Create, maintain and enforce company policies.
• Quarterly risk assessments updates.
• Ensure high quality printing and packing.
• Maintain process write-ups and system descriptions with quarterly updates.
• Save and back up documents chronologically.
• Produce high-quality, clear, formula-linked templates and financial models.
• Deal with internal, external, SARS and BEE auditors.
• Ensure 100% compliance with health and safety.
• Safeguard company assets and stock.
• Accurate creation of printed fixtures.
• Implement measures to achieve short-, medium- and long-term goals.
• Provide timely assistance with new printing projects.
• Stay abreast of new printing technology.
• Source external printing orders to increase volume and revenue.
• Source new business and service offerings.
• Develop existing business and services.

Skills

Planning And Organizing

Production Processes

Resource Management

Job description

Skill Set

• Planning and organizing
• Production processes
• Resource management

Responsibilities

Operational

• Manage the production of the printing business. This involves, but is not limited to, monitoring of staff, production processes, packing, machinery usage, wastage and raw material usage.
• Ensuring production deadlines are met to ensure that distribution can be completed timeously. This would include ensuring that raw material (ink, paper, spare machine parts etc.) is delivered on time, machines are functioning effectively, back up plans are in place, adequately resourced factory, regular generator testing, regular machine testing and effective packing process is in place.
• Ensure warehouse is secure at the end of a shift.
• Ordering of equipment and stock items as and when the need arises.
• Reviewing and approving final invoices for payment.
• Review and approve bio time reports, meal allowances etc for factory staff.
• Creation of all purchase orders and approve within your authoritative limit.
• Supplier relationship management, negotiation of favorable supplier terms and fair pricing.
• Manage the payments, storage and administration around petty cash for Winning Media.
• Carry out a weekly assessment of all printing and publications machinery at the factory and conduct the repairs.
• Assist with transportation of factory staff and travel to outsourced printing agencies for publications.
• Engage potential suppliers for machine parts and consumables and negotiating of the best prices.
• Implementation and diligent use of a standard costing system.
• Review and analysis of standard costing reports to manage the extent of wastage and excessive costs.
• Continuous monitoring of production costs, other costs and wastage levels.
• Execution of regular tenders for key raw materials to ensure best pricing, best quality and reliability. Ensure that a backup supplier is maintained.
• Be innovative with shifts, plant capacity, timing of prints runs as the business evolves into growing its external revenue streams.
• Ensure accurate counting of print runs, raw materials, and dispatch books.
• Ensure accurate packing of routes.
• Ensure accurate reconciliations and completions of necessary production schedules.

People

• Management of the production team in terms of time and attendance, leave, remuneration, disciplinary actions, performance reviews, rostering, shifts and other related resource management functions.
• Assist with the creation and maintenance of roles and job descriptions and KPIs for your direct report subordinates.
• Enforcing ethical, honest, transparent, fair work environment.
• Sourcing of training as and when needed for staff.
• Adequate recognition of staff efforts.
• Sustainable morale and team building.
• Assist HR with recruitment and related interviews.
• Recruitment and related interviews.
• Induction and comfort or new team members.
• Appropriate and fair leave planning, less than 30 days.
• Monitoring of sick leave.
• Approval of leave, bio time, phone usage.
• Implementation of HR initiatives.
• Monitoring of employee productivity and smoke breaks.
• Approving and monitoring of overtime, meal allowances etc.

Compliance, risk and quality

• Creating, maintaining and enforcing company policies and procedures.
• Quarterly updating of risk assessments.
• Ensure high quality printing and packing of printed publications.
• Maintenance of department process write-ups/ system descriptions and quarterly updating.
• Ensure logical saving of all work, templates, etc. monthly and yearly such that each year’s financial records can stand on its own when enquiries/ investigations/audits take place.
• Produce high quality, neat, logical, succinct, easy to follow, easy to understand, formula linked work/templates/workbooks/financial models - of which is substantiated by facts with no numbers in the formulas.
• Ensure the above (final version) and other documents are chronologically saved/backed up.
• Effectively deal with internal, external, SARS and BEE auditors.
• 100% compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Safe-guarding of company assets and company stock (raw materials and finished goods).
• Accurate creation of fixtures that are printed.

Growth and new markets/products

• Ensure measures are put in place and steps are taken to achieve the short term, medium term and long term goals.
• Timeous assistance with new printing projects as and when these become due.
• Stay abreast with new printing technology.
• Source external printing orders to increase print volume and thereby grow the revenue line.
• Source new business and new service offerings.
• Development of existing business and service offerings.

Qualifications

• Working experience as a Printing/Factory Manager
• Managerial experience

Required Skills

• Planning And Organizing
• Production Processes
• Resource Management

About Us

Winning Form was founded in 1987 and has since grown to become a prominent brand in South Africa. Over the years, Winning Form has expanded to include four other companies, SplashOut, Star Merchant, Star Bar & Café and Racing Distribution, making it a large and dynamic brand with a wide range of expertise.

The Winning Form Group has created an environment where our Team can thrive. We believe in fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Our Team is made up of talented individuals who are passionate about their work and committed to delivering the highest quality results.

As a part of our Team, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with Team Members from different areas of the business, grow with our development plans and contribute to the success of the Wining Form Group.

Job Info

• Job Identification 1790
• Job Category Signage, Printing and Publications
• Posting Date 06/24/2026, 12:18 PM
• Locations 6, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 4320, ZA (On-site)
• Apply Before 09/09/2026, 01:45 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Roster No