Production Supervisor

Revlon Corporate; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 380,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Revlon Corporate is seeking an onsite Shift Supervisor at our Isando site to lead production shifts, ensure safe operations, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. You will coordinate resources, coach maintenance teams, and ensure output meets quality and cost targets while upholding GMP standards.

The role requires a diploma in production/operations/engineering and hands-on experience in a manufacturing environment, including unionized shop floor exposure.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Production, Operation Management, Engineering and or equivalent.
• Min 2 years people management skills.
• At least 1 year supervisory experience in Manufacturing.
• CI/ WCM Quality and safety experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Exposure to a shop floor with unionized environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe production equipment and daily machine inspections.
• Provide safety information and training to employees.
• Coordinate shift resources to meet output with quality and cost targets.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives (CI/WCM/6-Sigma) on the shop floor.
• Mentor line leaders and operators in maintenance tasks.
• Drive competency and succession planning for manufacturing.

Skills

Proactive attitude

Change management

Problem solving

Result orientation

Education

Diploma in Production/Operations/Engineering

Job description

At Revlon, we create beauty innovations for everyone that inspire confidence and ignite joy every day.

Breaking beauty boundaries is in our company’s DNA. Since its game-changing launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932 (and later, the first long-wear foundation), Revlon has provided consumers with high-quality product innovation, performance, and sophisticated glamour. Elizabeth Arden made waves as a woman-led beauty company in the 1920s. In 1931, Almay became the original hypoallergenic, fragrance-free beauty brand.

Today, Revlon resiliently continues its legacy as a leading global beauty company. Our diverse portfolio—which consists of some of the world’s most iconic brands and product offerings in color cosmetics, skincare, hair color & care, personal care, and fragrances is sold around the world through prestige, professional, mass, and direct-to-consumer retail channels. These brands include Revlon, Revlon Professional, Elizabeth Arden, Almay, American Crew, CND, Cutex, Mitchum, Sinful Colors, Creme of Nature, Christina Aguilera, John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Ed Hardy and more.

We honor our heritage, embrace change, and applaud diversity. We champion our employees and celebrate our consumers.

We are Revlon, together, transforming beauty.

This role is an Onsite Role: This role requires full-time presence at our Isando site.

• Ensuring that the equipment used for production are safe and without risks to health of all the employees and visitors in your area (this includes ensuring that the daily machine inspections are done and recorded at the beginning of a shift)
• Ensure familiarity with all hazards to health and safety in areas of responsibility
• Provide safety and health information, instructions, training and supervision to employees/visitors in area of responsibility
• Coordination of all available shift resources to focus on planned production & priorities so as to deliver expected output within defined quality, planned cost while ensuring safe working conditions.
• The role will also provide the operational link and Training resource for continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage employee and team development as a core activity and competence.
• Take full responsibility for SHE & Quality decisions in line with agree guidelines, investigate, reports & document all incidents and follow up NCR closures.
• Proactively resolve operational issues that arise during shift operation, i.e. Safety, Quality, Labour & breakdowns by applying agreed guidelines & liaising with relevant responsible persons/ functions.
• Run the shift operations and meet, Sku / line total Shift outputs with the allocated amount of resources.
• Set shift priorities as may be required due to changes in customer service requirements, planning requirements and or line / manufacturing issues and ensure Line & labor resource are used optimally.
• Working with departmental heads manage Technical skills training and development of all the Maintenance team and actively develop and transfer Autonomous maintenance tasks to the line leaders & operators.
• Actively engage in agreed and assigned continuous improvement projects. This role will be the Champion at the shop floor for Initiating and sustaining structured program for Continuous Improvement (CI /WCM/6-Sigma).
• Mentor/Couch Core operational roles as agreed with management to drive performance improvements and engage in all relevant Employee Relations matters requirements and issues affecting shift workers.
• Drive the Shift / Teams competency agenda and ensure that all training plans including relevant Couching are implemented.
• Ensure succession plans for Manufacturing are in place to enable improved sustainability and morale.
• Communicates plans and information to section teams and ensures follow through on all commitments. Monitoring, Communicate/ sharing Progress and results to the right levels.
• Adhere to all company policies, procedures and instructions which forms part of the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) management system of the company.
• Must be prepared to work overtime as and when requested to do so.
• Respond to the instructions of his/her superior determined by priority of workload of the day and support business needs by performing any other reasonable duties as directed by superior.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Production, Operation Management, Engineering and or equivalent
• Min 2 years people management skills
• At least 1 year supervisory experience in Manufacturing
• CI/ WCM Quality and safety experience in a manufacturing environment
• Exposure to a shop floor with unionized environment.

Skills

• Proactive / Self Driven/Energy/ passionate
• Ability to deal with Change management
• Problem Solving Skills: Analyse situations and apply proven problems solving tools to make decisions / take actions that will result in sustainable and improving results
• he ability to plan, organize and drive for results while constantly measuring the quality, cost and delivery.

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