Foreman / production

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 Foremans control.
• Assist with the investigation of customer complaints