Plant Manager
Current• Ensuring safety of all employees/visitors on site as the 16.2 Appointee.• Ensuring all general machinery regulations on site are adhered to as the GMR 2.1 Appointee.• Ensuring daily production targets are met through improving availability and OEE’s.• Developing dashboards for monitoring operations objectives such as OEE, availability, performance, yield etc.• Planning of annual schedule for maintenance and to ensure successful shutdown execution.• Conduct process analyses, cycle time and continuous improvement projects within the plant.• Maintenance planning through annual maintenance plan and shutdown tracking.• Executing daily, weekly and monthly maintenance schedules.• Ensuring that all spares needed for maintenance are available.• Execute maintenance tasks assigned with the maintenance team and ensure work carried out conforms to ISO engineering standards.• Manage contractors during engineering projects and supervise on annual shutdown projects.• Commission equipment after maintenance has been carried out.• Drive maintenance team to ensure that breakdowns are attended to and resolved in the shortest turnaround times and follow escalation procedures.• Analyse breakdowns and compile trend analyses, patterns of breakdowns and take necessary actions.• Drive EHS department to develop and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) such that operators are able to troubleshoot minor stoppages and resolve the issue through autonomous maintenance.• Form part of problem solving on breakdowns, quality and material losses. • Lead project teams to ensure World Class Manufacturing (WCM) projects are completed timeously.• Prepare CAPEX applications for improvement projects, estimate budgets and ensure that these projects are within the estimation (+-10%) once it is implemented.• Drive soft and hard savings for the plant. • Drive EHS department to ensure contractor compliance to all SGCP and OSHACT standards and procedures.