Key Responsibilities:

1.Overseeing all aspects of the manufacturing process

2. Developing, documenting, and implementing policies and procedures to improve production processes and reduce costs including, designing processes for new products;

3. Measuring, maintaining and reviewing factory metrics and taking prompt corrective actions with respect to:

• Efficiency parameters (Labour, Machine etc)
• Equipment parameters (Availability, Efficiency etc)
• Quality parameters (Rejects, Quality index etc)
• Financial parameters (Costs, profitability etc)

4. Liasing with other managers across the organisation to ensure effective change management, efficiencies and achievement of common goals.

5. Providing guidance on profit maximization opportunities to the platform through innovation, purchasing and business development.

6. Forecasting, planning, and executing the acquisition and delivery of all materials (and tools) required to meet production plans.

7. All administrative processes of transfer are executed timeously and accurately.

8. Recruiting, leading, evaluating and developing all team members, consistent with BlackIvy values and expectations 

9.Coaching and developing factory teams to be cost conscious and to operate in a culture of accountability when making decisions that affect business cost, quality and efficiency 

10. Managing factory teams to optimize productivity and maintain cost within budget whilst achieving quality standards.

11. Analysing and recommending requirements for non-core business functions in the factory, regarding outsourcing to external service providers, or retention of internal skills and resources.

12. Formulating, implementing and consistently reviewing an asset maintenance program to guarantee efficiency, availability, quality, safety and hygiene in compliance with requisite standards.

13. Identifying, evaluating and recommending capital asset investments to meet business objectives 

14.Ensuring implementation of health and safety systems and procedures so employees, contractors and visitors enjoy a safe and healthy workplace environment.

15. Ensuring that the factory is always compliant with all relevant current and future regulations

16. Identifying, recommending, and executing cost effective initiatives to improve the environmental impact of the factory.

17.Supporting the preparation of the operational budget including controlling costs to meet business objectives.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in industrial food manufacturing management in a senior role.
• Knowledge of food manufacturing processes and quality control standards.
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications, with strong skills in PowerPoint and Excel and ERP Systems
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