Reports to
Factory Manager
Responsibilities
Behavior
- Live the company Values, exhibit excellence in behaviors, and act as a role model for colleagues and subordinates
Driving efficiency, performance and delivery and meeting set objectives, in compliance with company Policies, Procedures & Standards
Production
- Manage production.
- Ensure quality of the production.
- Implement strategies that ensure safe and efficient job execution in terms of Planning, Design and Execution for orders, extrusion, printing, cutting, rewinding, molding, crushing activities.
- Manage the production in a safe manner
- Set priorities for optimal resource allocation for production as per Job Cards.
- Efficiently utilize materials to prevent overuse.
- Ensure full utilization of equipment and non-stop production.
- Keep abreast of developments (new processes, practices, technologies, methods, ways of working,) related to production equipment.
Personnel
- Motivate, coach, mentor, and develop direct and indirect subordinates.
- Manage subordinates to keep equipment in good working order, maintaining valid certification at all times.
Maintenance
- Through the development, implementation, and assurance of an adequate Preventive Maintenance Program for mechanical and electrical equipment, ensure a safe and efficient operation, in compliance with the relevant standards;
- Provide advice on necessary resources to enable preventive maintenance.
- Assist with asset tagging and subsequent tracking of assets and associated certifications in company databases;
- Allocate necessary resources (time, people, tools, spares) to enable Preventive Maintenance
- Timely react to equipment breakdown to facilitate the earliest return of the equipment to service.
- Encompasses the overall maintenance management;
- Promote the reporting of equipment breakdowns, performs a detailed investigation on relevant equipment/material deficiencies and associated problems.
- Follow the maintenance reports and review them regularly, highlights major issues to the attention of General Manager.
- Manage the distribution of Alerts, Guidelines.
- Build & secure records, PM status, etc.
- Ensures that OEM spare is used for critical equipment.
- Owns the Maintenance Procedures update process.
- Participates in the site audits where necessary.
- Prepare machinery major upgrade plans.
- Keeps track of all equipment under repair in workshops;
Materials & Procurement
- Assists the Materials Department in determining proper levels of stock based on current deliveries and average use.
- Closely coordinate with the Business Support Manager with regards to procurement of spare parts.
- Have an overview of inventories of spare assets, and inventory of equipment stored in the yard.
- Uses his expertise and qualification to recommend equipment specification for purchase, transfer, retirement, spare asset.
Continuous Improvement
- Monitor non-productive time for each machine;
Lead the implementation of new maintenance strategies in order to improve uptime and longevity of company-owned equipment;
Skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Intermediate computer skills
- Machine knowledge related to troubleshooting and material behavior
- Good math and mechanical skills
- Working knowledge of basic hydraulic/electric/pneumatic/vision systems
- Ability to lift 35 pounds unassisted and work standing for 12 hours
- Effective time management skills
Experience
- At least 4 years of experience with relevant machines and secondary equipment.
- Formal plastic process training such as scientific molding, Paulson, or equivalent preferred.
- ISO or similar quality & safety system.
Reports & Records
- Job Cards/ Work Order
- Non-Conformance Reports
- Maintenance Records
- Monthly NPT report
- Monthly Maintenance Report