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Specialist: Technology Steering
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ZAR 500 000 - 750 000
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Job summary
A leading automotive manufacturer in South Africa is seeking a Specialist in Technology Steering to manage production budgets and optimize assembly processes. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Engineering or Business Economics and several years of experience in production systems. This role emphasizes efficiency, compliance with safety standards, and the use of modern technologies in assembly environments.
Qualifications
- Experience in Engineering, Business Planning and Project management.
- Knowledge of motor vehicles and modern technologies.
- Experience with state-of-the-art quality techniques.
Responsibilities
- Manage budget and headcount for production.
- Optimize assembly processes and material flow.
- Ensure compliance with safety standards and business processes.
Skills
Mechanical/electrical/electronic knowledge
Quality techniques and tools
Communication skills
Presentation skills
Negotiation skills
Education
Degree in Engineering / Business Economics
4-5 years experience in Engineering
4-5 years experience in Management/Production Information systems
Job description
Specialist: Technology Steering
Functional Definition:
- Productivity Steering.
- Ergonomic assessment and Analysis Steering.
- Projects Technology Steering and Control.
- Low Costs Intelligent Automation Steering Assembly Logistics Synergies.
- Optimization of material flow that directly affects the assembly environment.
- T4 contractor management and optimization of service providers.
- Planning co-ordination and reporting of VPS activities.
- Assembly process optimization with PSP team, including lineside presentation optimization.
- System Maintenance and IT interface with regards to NAS, BVIS, DIVA, WARENET* and printers.
- Steering and Co-ordination of Time administration of Hourly Direct Labor and related management of shit changes when required.
Tasks:
- Secures the short, medium and long-term fulfilment of the production program, coordinates the necessary working-time models and flex modules with all relevant partners while assessing the appropriate business processes for appropriate working-time measures.
- Steers and monitors budget, headcount and annual investment requirements.
- Ensures the short, middle and long-term fulfilment of the production program; coordinates the necessary work-time models with all relevant partners, and evaluates the necessary working time instruments during for the relevant business processes.
- Coordinate the necessary working time models and flex modules with all relevant interface partners,
- Develops various operational concepts as a contribution of the plant in the planning process and checks vice-versa the feasibility of the planned projects in the plant. Shares the implementation experience from the plant back into the planning process.
- Ensures the function industrial engineering.
- Implements improvement measures and change projects for the serial production in the areas of efficiency.
- Steers ergonomics assessments and technical availability of the technology.
- Ensures the method competencies in the area of VPS.
Main Duties:
- Initiates, decides, controls and enforces all Headcount/Costs requirements and budgets for Direct Labour and Manufacturing Overheads.
- Set up monitor and manage Departmental Budgets both operationally and Project related.
- Set up personal developmental plans for Department team members.
- Ensure compliance of the team to the various business processes and IMS system requirements.
- Establishes Long Term Budgets (LUP, LIP).
- Establish Strategic targets regarding Loading, Costs and Productivity.
- Oversight of Line Balancing and Manpower planning.
- Establish Standard Time Analysis for all TVG’s.
- Establish Ergonomic Analysis for all TVG’s.
- Establish objectives, projects and plans to improve cost and labor productivity.
- Enforces all cost and labour productivity targets.
- Maintain Time Admin function for all Direct Hourly Labour.
- Maintain General Admin/Stationery function.
- Is on a day-by-day basis interactive in the Assembly Plant and neighboring departments to support primary targets (i.e. On time Delivery, Volume and budget, Quality).
- Control supply performance of internal and external suppliers of Assembly shop.
- Break down of the T-targets (linked to On Time Delivery, KOVP, volume targets, Budget and headcount) to the T-4, T-4x and T-4xx targets within the yearly target commitment process.
- Initiates, plans, direct and controls special projects to improve, control and monitor production related to: On time Delivery, through put Time, Rework activities, and Production volume losses.
- Directs and follows up on introduction of projects and systems, and ensures methods to maintain quality standards of reporting and management information systems.
- As part of his COC’s co-working has influence over the design of company standards and best practice solutions in areas of productivity, Analysis Tools, and Ergonomics and low cost intelligent automation.
- Introduction of New systems in accordance with international norms with regards to Productivity control and visualization.
- Makes internal as well as external agreements about efficiency with process partners and projects across, Logistics, Painted Body, Finance, Purchasing and Quality.
- Initiates and manages strategic projects in order to optimize the work organization and methodic and the assembly process for the assembly technology.
- New Product Launches/Project Involving Line Balancing and Productivity and Headcount requirements.
- Resource Evaluation and Allocation under changing business requirements through local and international influences.
- Maintain and Improve standard of production facilities and environment.
- Ensure development of the role of Coach within the Assembly environment.
- Develop and Introduce low cost intelligent automation (LCIA) within the Assembly Environment and key support function in line with international trends within the group.
- Key support wrt FK Prop, and complete Direct headcount planning with the groups central planning functions (TP and TI) for introductions of new model launches.
- Implements and maintains SHEQ (ISO TS 16949, ISO 14000, 45001 and ISO 18000) requirements.
Description of Auxiliary Activities:
Supplementary tasks/projects as allocated from time to time by Section Manager:
- To support Company and Departmental objectives.
- To support internal and external team relationships.
- Checks that safety standards are met.
- Coach, coordinate and supervise.
- Support to HRC and Operational teams in plant ill health process.
- Plans, investigates and optimizes the introduction of new production methods.
- Benchmarks Flexibility targets, e.g. with Local and International Automotive Plants.
- Benchmarks LCIA solutions with International Automotive plants.
- Motivate Interfacing departments to support T4 improvement initiatives.
- Bring about transparency within T4 on Budget statuses.
- Transparency to Operational environment on of Costs associated to in plant Damages.
- Steering of other cores with respect to associated damages which impact assembly processes and motivate solution thereof to maintain higher levels of quality.
- Oversight of the DS&R process in plant.
Impact on innovations and changes:
- Actively participate, steer and mentor the Innovation and Digitalization CoC locally and Internationally within the BMW Group.
Education:
- Degree in Engineering / Business Economics or equivalent.
- 4-5 yearsexperience in Engineering, Business Planning and Project management.
- 4-5 yearsexperience in Management/Production Information systems.
Additional skills: special skills / technical ability etc:
- 4-5 years knowledge of motor vehicles, mechanical/electrical/electronic state of the art technologies.
- 4-5 yearsknowledge in state of the art quality techniques and –tools.
- 4-5 years knowledge of engineering means and methods, artisan skills, communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.