SUMMARY:
a Big Giant within the Pharmaceutical Industry is looking to employ a skillful Industrial Engineer that comes from the Liquor, Food, FMCG or Pharmaceuticals Industry to join their dynamic team of experts urgently!!!
POSITION INFO:
Overview
Position: We are looking for Pharmaceutical, FMCG Food or Liquor trade Industrial Engineers.
Salary: Market Related
Location: Port Elizabeth
- Send detailed CV in Word Document, certified copy of Id, head and shoulders photo of yourself, pay slip, plus certified Qualifications. this is to speed up your application and to get the correct documentation to the Employer!!!!!!
Applicants are invited to apply for this excellent opportunity that exists for the above mentioned position. The successful incumbent will report to Operational Excellence Team Leader.
Overview
Lead and support Continuous Improvement (CI) and Operational Excellence initiatives.
Responsibilities
Process alignment
- Develop and publish deadlines, targets and measures, and communicate departmental targets and outputs
- Plan, prioritise and review technical plans for the improvement of production and facility equipment
- Facilitate meetings to analyse process input variables and interpret impact upon customers’ needs
- Develop and update process documentation and training materials to support new or modified processes
- Evaluate, justify and qualify changes in existing processes or process equipment
- Review production information to understand methods and activities in manufacturing and services. This includes, but is not limited to, production schedules, process flows and engineering specs.
Project management and coordination
- Manage CI, site loss elimination and lean improvement projects to provide greater value, implementing relevant tools and processes
- Provide technical support to SCM, writing technical specifications
Continuous improvement (CI)
- Focus on measurable quality, service and cost improvements
- Work with departments to develop training material pertaining to processes, raw materials, equipment operations and operator safety
- Elicit production and operational issues from operators
- Troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve equipment, manufacturing process and facilities issues
- Standardise/ modify existing manufacturing processes to increase robustness, reliability, and compliance and reduce production costs, lead times, inventories, downtime and waste
- Implement and monitor corrective action and innovative action within set target dates
- Design control systems to minimize and resolve production issues and project costs
Reporting
- Prepare technical reports for all work performed
- Present process-related data and communicates issues related to projects for review and discussion
Skills Required
Background/experience
- At least 3-5 years'''' relevant manufacturing experience
- We are looking for someone coming from the Liquor, Food, FMCG or Pharmaceutical Industry that knows how to lead and support continous improvement & operational initiatives.
- National Diploma in Industrial Engineering or related discipline
- At least 1 years Project Management Experience
- At least 2 years Lean Manufacturing Experience
Specific job skills
- Computer literacy
- Strong mechanical and process skills and a good working knowledge of control, logic and operational principles
- Problem solving and action planning skills
- Oral and written communication skills
- Understanding of variable and period costs
Competencies
- Meeting Deadlines
- Finalising Outputs
- Making Decisions
- Customer Awareness
- Interrogating Information
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