Job Description

Factory Manager - JhbJoin a leading Water and Chemical treatment company headquartered in Randfontein (Gauteng) as a Factory Manager in a full-time role, involving occasional work outside normal business hours. Responsibilities include preparing and attending management meetings, participating in conferences, ensuring timely filing of reports and correspondence, conducting regular electronic file backups, maintaining strict confidentiality, assuming responsibility for specific accounts and systems as directed by management, and adhering to Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality requirements and legislation. Requirements:BEng Chemical Engineering or BSc Chemical Engineering3 to 5 years working experience in the chemical industry.Valid IDValid licenseNo criminal recordProficiency in MS OfficeProblem-solving abilities Duties:Daily Duties:Factory is opened and tasks allocated to the production staff.Production commences, according to schedule.All deliveries and goods to be received are scheduled for the day.Capture all produced and used stock electronically.Make allowances for shortfall in raw materials are available for following days.productionAttend to day-to-day paperwork and e-mails.Fill out attendance register.Ensure all equipment is checked and faulty equipment reported. Weekly Duties:Plan the production schedule for the following week.Plan the logistics for the following week.Ensure that raw materials are available for following weeks production.Have safety meetings every Friday, with signed attendance register.Check that the weeks production is stored in a safe orderly manner and the warehouse and grounds cleaned.Monthly Duties:Generate an electronic report on months production figures.Complete following months production planning according to sales forecast figuresLiase with Technical Manager to ensure that enough raw materials are available for production.Prepare a delivery schedule for the new month, in conjunction with the Sales Managers needs.Monthly meeting with Technical Manager regarding staff and production issues.Additional Duties:Ensure all SOPs for the factory is in place.Ensure that all safety KPIs are met including inspections, PTO and VFLAnswering all chemical questions from the operational team and queries with regardsto the chemicalsProper management of chemical contractorProper management of logistics contractorCost saving incentives.Check all the chemical forecast vs actual consumption and engage with the Mangers to ensure accurate forecasting.General Duties:Be prepared to work outside of normal business hours from time to time.Prepare information and attend meetings required by management.Attend and participate in conferences whenever and wherever required.Ensure that copies of all reports and correspondence generated by you in the course of your duty are filed electronically or as hardcopies.Do regular (at least 2 weekly) back-ups of your electronic files.Maintain confidentiality of all information you may acquire or be given.Be prepared to assume responsibility for specific accounts and systems as requested by management.Adhere to all SHEQ requirements and legislation.It is expressly agreed by the employee that should the work as set out in the job description, be unavailable he/she will be prepared to perform any other suitable work which falls in his/her vocational abilities or will receive training for.If you have not heard from us within 3 months of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful.Only online applications will be considered.You will be directed to our database service provider, Ditto Jobs. Please complete your application in full. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should any other suitable positions become available, Elchemie will contact you to request your permission to submit your profile to a client.By submitting your application, you give consent and authorise Elchemie to undertake collection, processing, and further processing of your Personal Information for the purposes of potentially securing employment.As an applicant you agree to make available to Elchemie all necessary personal information required for the purpose of potentially securing employment and you understand and agree that should you upload personal information and data, that information will be shared with our authorised job placement database service provider, job portals, and -websites, where such an advert is managed by our services and service providers.

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