Shift Supervisor

Durpro Workforce Solutions; Durban; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Durpro Workforce Solutions is seeking a Shift Supervisor to lead a large manufacturing floor in Durban. You will ensure resources, plan, and outputs, while maintaining safety and machine uptime.

You will drive continuous improvement, manage labour, monitor OEE, and coordinate with maintenance and production planning to meet targets and quality standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of supervision/management experience.
• Experience in large multi-stage manufacturing with 300+ staff.
• Experience managing materials and consumables.
• Proficient with numbers and computer use.

Responsibilities

• Walk the floor regularly and ensure resources align with plan.
• Manage shift discipline and ensure output targets are met.
• Coordinate maintenance and ensure equipment uptime.
• Record and report quality, downtime, and bottlenecks.
• Communicate priorities and schedule with the team.
• Maintain OEE data and participate in safety compliance.

Skills

People management

Manufacturing experience

Materials management

Numerical literacy

Education

Grade 12

Production qualification

Tools

Shopware

Job description

Purpose

The shift supervisor is responsible for the overall smooth running of their shift. They take responsibility for ensuring all resources are available when and where needed. The shift supervisor is responsible for the overall discipline and management of employees during their shift. They are responsible for ensuring the required output & targets are achieved. The shift supervisor must ensure that all equipment / machinery is maintained. They must assist to develop and action projects to reduce bottlenecks and continuously improve in the department.

Duties & Responsibilities

Walk the floor regularly

• Correct utilization of resources (material, people, machinery, time)

• FIFO (First-in-First-Out) followed

• Correct jobs planned and being run (according to schedule)

• Daily Output and quality checks are verified (any discrepancies investigated and reported on)

• Pass info on any issues incurred with jobs or machines to next shift supervisor

• Communicate urgency of jobs (priorities) and schedule with team

• Quality, production and downtime related info collected daily

• Assist with green area meetings as per template and record minutes

Production Plan

• Ensure machines and jobs are running according to plan

• Correct sequence of jobs

• Correct quantity produced (short production reported)

• Correct machine used & targets met

• All necessary resources available for running future jobs

Maintenance

• Create maintenance job cards & ensure issues are addressed

• Follow up on job cards, breakdowns and parts arrivals

• Ensure all services and planned maintenance is carried out as per schedule

Labour (People)

• Ensure overall labour control, discipline and utilization

• Discipline is maintained and controlled during shift

• Machines are manned as required (according to priorities & important jobs)

• Absenteeism reported

• Clocking’s done correctly and signed off for payroll to process

• Correct break times followed (no excessive time away from machines)

Overall Equipment effectiveness (OEE)

• Ensure correct output (speeds), quality and machine uptime achieved

• Analyze and find solutions to address problems

• OEE boards filled in daily with the required information as per OEE procedure

Material Control

• Ensure all receipting and issuing of materials completed correctly by department as required by Abaca work instructions

• Responsible for all WIP within department

• Any quantity shortages to be communicated to the manager & production planner by means of email

Consumables

• Control consumables & consumption

• Ensure the correct consumables (according to work ticket) and FIFO is followed

• Quality issues for consumables recorded and reported

• Material issued on Shopware as required

Work Ticket

• Ensure proper control of work tickets is done

• All information on work jackets has been checked, understood and followed

• Right artwork and quality produced according to “last-off sample”

• All relevant information/ documents completed correctly

Quality

• Check the correct quality is being achieved.

• Ensure all work ticket & quality checks are being done

• Ensure samples in the work ticket are being checked against the job being run

• Ensure any Non conformances that have been created and allocated to the department are being closed out correctly and timeously

Health and Safety

• All processes and procedures for Health and Safety followed during shift

• Comply with operating rules & regulations

• Report and investigate any incidents during shift

• Health & Safety of staff is ensured (PPE for staff is adhered to)

• Property & equipment is operated correctly & safely

Shopware

• Assist, train and ensure all members are competent for data capturing in Shopware

Abilities

• Lead and manage a shift

• Technical acumen

• Attention to detail

• Information and task monitoring

• Capture information accurately and timeously (nice-to-have)

• Ability to work in team with people (and train and pass knowledge on)

Skills / Experience

• Experience with supervising/ managing people (5+ years post qualification)

• Experience in manufacturing environment (Multistage with large workforce of 300 +)

• Experience managing materials/ consumables

• Experience working on computer and working with numbers

Expected Qualifications

• Grade 12

• Relevant Production Qualification