Location: Nelspruit
Reporting to : Operations Manager
Qualifications, Experience, Attributes
• Matric/Grade 12
• Production Management Diploma
• Marketing & Sales Management will be a plus
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in WIP in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum 1 year experience in stock control
• Minimum 1 years’ experience in metal industry
• Minimum 1 years’ experience using Microsoft Packages
Duties and Responsibilities
• Day to day production planning to run smooth with pre-planning for the following day.
• Day to day liaison with Operations Manager, ensuring targeted milestones is met on time.
• Ensure quality products are produced.
• Meet lead times of 3 to 5 days.
• Finished goods to be produced cost effectively.
• Liaising between different departments (Sales & Operations) to ensure information received is correct according to customer’s requirements.
• To become the pivotal point between the Sales Dept & Operations Dept.
• Day to day liaison with Dispatch Supervisor to ensure goods are produced and delivered on time.
• Convert Sales orders into production orders through ‘Syspro’ and ensure that correct material is available to meet
• the customer’s needs on time
• Develop & maintain production planning schedule.
• Develop Maintain & updating project schedule for onsite rolling.
• Loading of Master Schedule through ‘Syspro’ to match the volume specified by the production planning schedule.
• Notify all Stakeholders of any deviation due to machine breakdowns or material shortages.
• Review & manage change requests from customers and making appropriate re-schedules.
• Accurately create job cards
• Accurately issue coils to the job (use SMS first)
• Ensure that the correct coil is BTS’ed and the job is closed
• Provide stockholding days forecasts
• Be part of the Stock committee for ordering and placing of stock order.
• Assist with Cycle Counts on a weekly basis
• Ensure all jobs are reversed before quarterly stock takes
• Assist in preparation of quarterly stock take one week before
• Participate in stock take according to the published list for the quarterly stock count
• Assist with work when other employees are off duty
• Assist Operations Manager with ad hoc items - as and when needed.
If you are keen and feel that you’d make a good fit, then please feel free to send your updated WORD CV NOT PDF version to: AND
