Shift Manager

Staff Unlimited Recruitment; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Staff Unlimited Recruitment is seeking a Shift Manager in Gqeberha for a leadership role in automotive manufacturing. The position requires a technical degree and extensive production experience, with emphasis on team leadership and process optimization.

Responsibilities include coordinating production, staffing, process monitoring, and ensuring quality and compliance. You will interface with maintenance and logistics, drive CIP improvements, and support new product launches with rigorous setup

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Related Technical Degree (Operations / Management)
• 5+ years of experience in Automotive Manufacturing Industry
• Team Leader Experience is advantageous
• Injection Moulding experience or knowledge would be an advantage

Responsibilities

• Coordinate production processes to meet deadlines, quality and cost specs.
• Participate in personnel planning for optimal deployment in the production area.
• Monitor and benchmark production figures and initiate countermeasures.
• Interface with maintenance and logistics to ensure problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Handle plant-specific procedures and follow superior instructions.
• Contribute to CIP process improvements and ensure careful handling of equipment.
• Identify and document quality deviations and initiate follow-up inspections.
• Assist masterdata changes and support launches of new products; perform difficult setup on equipment.
• Takeover and handover of production areas at shift changes; organize and control work processes.
• Support qualification of employees and provide technical instruction to production personnel.
• Aim to achieve operational targets and service standards (e.g. Sales Representative, Quality Engineer).

Skills

Team Leadership

Injection Moulding knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical degree (Operations/Management)

Job description

Shift Manager

Job Location: Gqeberha

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Related Technical Degree (Operations / Management)
• 5+ years of experience in Automotive Manufacturing Industry
• Team Leader Experience is advantageous.
• Injection Moulding experience or knowledge would be an advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordination of the production processes, ensuring the fulfilment of deadlines, quality and cost specifications.
• Participation in detailed personnel planning, ensuring the optimal deployment of personnel in the production area.
• Monitor and benchmark key production figures and initiate countermeasures.
• Interface function to maintenance and logistics areas; ensuring problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Special activities according to plant-specific procedural instructions and specifications of superiors.
• Participation in process improvements within the framework of the CIP; ensuring the careful handling of work equipment.
• Identification and documentation of quality deviations, initiation of follow-up inspections, preventive and improvement measures.
• Proposals for masterdata changes; support in case of Launch of new products; carrying out difficult setting work on production equipment.
• Takeover and handover of production or the area of responsibility at shift change; organisation, control and optimisation of work processes.
• Participation in the qualification of employees, technical instruction/training of production personnel.
• Work to achieve operational targets or service standards (e.g. Sales Representative, Quality Engineer).