Laboratory Technician jobs in South Africa

A well-established roofing and solar firm based in Cape Town is looking for an experienced Foreman to join their market-leading company. To plan, organize and control the production facility of the Cape Town factory/ plant in order to produce the required quantity of roof tiles and accessories within agreed quality and cost specifications.

• Production Planning – communicate daily with the commercial manager, sales and dispatch planning team to ensure sufficient stock levels are maintained.
• To plan maintenance schedule.
• To assist with problem solving on breakdowns on the main production line.
• Ensure safety levels are optimal and good housekeeping in factory.
• Yard control to plan, organized and control the production facility to produce tiles and fittings of the correct quality and cost at the correct time.
• Management of stock levels including critical spares and raw materials and ensure procurement procedures are adhered to.
• Management stock counts and audits with finance and stock/ inventory control in system.
• Manage stock losses and variance tracking, production breakages.
• Negotiate with all suppliers of both raw material and maintenance spares for the timeous supply of materials at the best possible rate.
• Maintain good industrial relations, experience within a unionized environment, and adhere to procedures between factory staff and management through the established IR procedures.
• Labour productivity, efficiencies and unit production costs.
• SHEQ Management and compliance with ISO 14001 & ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001.
• Develop and motivate production staff to achieve agreed objectives regarding efficiency, quality, industrial relations, health and safety.
• Maintain, review and develop the SABS Quality Management System to establish and maintain quality standards.
• Controls to manage shrinkage and breakages.
• Management security breaches.
• Ensure implementation of the 5 S system.

• Negotiations with suppliers for high value items from time to time. Stores and buying procurement of spares for the factory fall under the Foreman's control.
• Assist with the investigation of customer complaints.

• Understanding of both the mechanical and the electrical.
• Understanding of costing.
• Understanding of people and productivity costs.

• Ensuring the production team achieves the productivity and efficiency targets.

• Ensure safety talks and safety tours of the factory. SHEQ or EHS Manager.
• Negotiates with suppliers of critical spares.

• Matric.
• B Tech/ Degree preferably Engineering qualification preferable.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a production/ factory environment.
• Sound electrical and mechanical knowledge.

Basic salary R40 000.00

Car Allowance R6 500

Fuel card R4 000

Medical Aid 50% employer 50% employee contribution.

Provident fund is 21.36% of the basic salary.

13th cheque in December.

Please mail your CV to hr1 (at) peopledimension (dot) co (dot) za.

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks, if you do not hear from us by then your application for this position was unsuccessful, but you have been added to our database for future vacancies.