Job Profile:

The successful candidate will be responsible to provide direction, technical guidance and leadership in production to ensure the highest quality products, also optimize production performance, by holding teams accountable to achieve the highest standards of efficiencies and quality, maximizing throughput and ENA recovery at lowest cost.

Specific Job accountabilities:

• Contribute to the development of manufacturing plans, goals and KPI’s where required
• Drive rigorous performance management, biased towards rewarding strong performance and compliance with critical behaviours, and including managing consequences where required
• Oversee operations and production planning (S&OP) to ensure efficiency, quality control, budgetary control, service, and cost-effective management of resources
• Together with the teams, achieve shift, daily, weekly, monthly performance targets against business/operational goals and objectives by ensuring that tasks are prioritised and planned in a logical, systematic and cost-effective way to optimise profitability
• Drive operational excellence by making informed trade-offs and driving initiatives that will deliver greatest possible output and quality levels.
• Report on performance in line with KPIs as well as key adverse or positive developments to Factory Head
• Ensure compliance with group minimum standards and processes for Production, ensuring products are within in-specification across each step of value chain.
• Promote cross-functional and cross production team leadership and engagement towards achievement of agreed business goals
• Conduct regular inspections of factory and equipment in line with company, legislative, quality best practice and food safety requirements.
• Ensure laboratory activities on shift operate in accordance to defined best practices to maintain effective process quality assurance.
• Direct artisans in line with reactive and planned maintenance activities during the shift
• Adopt and embed agreed best practices, frameworks and minimum standards for all aspects of sugar recovery
• Identify areas where production and quality management can be improved and lead the implementation of processes and activities to make improvements.
• Establish and lead a problem-solving approach across the production process to identify and address problems and improvement opportunities.
• Develop capability on the job and hold supervisors accountable for performance
• Provide input into business cases for key capital projects and support delivery, ensuring required economic and desired outcomes are delivered on Identify and monitor KPIs to track performance and flag any issues

Qualifications & Experience:

• BSc Degree in Chemical and processing engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years in heavy Manufacturing (production and/or maintenance), with at least 2 years in distillery or sugar production.
• Good business acumen and manufacturing expertise, with ability to anticipate, interpret and respond to changes impacting on functional area
• Strong track record in management and leadership

• Contribute to the development of manufacturing plans, goals and KPI’s where required
• Drive rigorous performance management, biased towards rewarding strong performance and compliance with critical behaviours, and including managing consequences where required
• Oversee operations and production planning (S&OP) to ensure efficiency, quality control, budgetary control, service, and cost-effective management of resources
• Together with the teams, achieve shift, daily, weekly, monthly performance targets against business/operational goals and objectives by ensuring that tasks are prioritised and planned in a logical, systematic and cost-effective way to optimise profitability
• Drive operational excellence by making informed trade-offs and driving initiatives that will deliver greatest possible output and quality levels.
• Report on performance in line with KPIs as well as key adverse or positive developments to Factory Head
• Ensure compliance with group minimum standards and processes for Production, ensuring products are within in-specification across each step of value chain.
• Promote cross-functional and cross production team leadership and engagement towards achievement of agreed business goals
• Conduct regular inspections of factory and equipment in line with company, legislative, quality best practice and food safety requirements.
• Ensure laboratory activities on shift operate in accordance to defined best practices to maintain effective process quality assurance.
• Direct artisans in line with reactive and planned maintenance activities during the shift
• Adopt and embed agreed best practices, frameworks and minimum standards for all aspects of sugar recovery
• Identify areas where production and quality management can be improved and lead the implementation of processes and activities to make improvements.
• Establish and lead a problem-solving approach across the production process to identify and address problems and improvement opportunities.
• Develop capability on the job and hold supervisors accountable for performance
• Provide input into business cases for key capital projects and support delivery, ensuring required economic and desired outcomes are delivered on Identify and monitor KPIs to track performance and flag any issues

• Supervisory Skills

• BSc Degree in Chemical and processing engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years in heavy Manufacturing (production and/or maintenance), with at least 2 years in distillery or sugar production.
• Good business acumen and manufacturing expertise, with ability to anticipate, interpret and respond to changes impacting on functional area
• Strong track record in management and leadership