General Manager - Production - Chemicals

General Manager - Production

- Provide leadership for the successful day-to-day operation of the plant

- Work closely with plant and quality assurance personnel to review product quality consistency while monitoring yield rates and wastage to determine trends and areas of improvement

- Review established production schedules for all manufacturing departments to ensure established inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency possible

- Overall responsibility for ensuring that staffing and competency levels are achieved/exceeded in all aspects of the manufacturing process

- Monitor operation expenses and research ways to reduce costs while maintaining product quality

- Develop and execute the plant manufacturing budgets, including relevant departments accountable to the achievement of budgets

- Analyse workforce requirements

- Conduct performance appraisals and provide coaching and guidance to all operations managers

- Encourage and promote operations in a continuous improvement environment

- Remove production constraints; allocate human and equipment resources and direct production employees to attain all established goals

- Remove waste and constraints from the production process to improve efficiencies and enhance productivity

- Work in collaboration with marketing and quality assurance divisions to develop and bring to market new products

- Work with the purchasing manager to develop and improve supplier relationships for all Plant inputs

- Work in collaboration with the people & performance manager to manage relationships

- Maintain primary processing and production equipment and ancillary services

- Maintain plant site security systems OH&S / quality systems

- Maintain and support a superior safety and housekeeping program, including all timely communication initiatives

- Promote the proactive reporting of workplace hazards identified during the course of work to the appropriate person, following standard operating procedures

- Oversee the production process, drawing up a production schedule. Ensure that the production is cost effective, decide what resources are required, draft a timescale for the job, estimate costs and set the quality standards, monitor the production processes and adjust schedules as needed, be responsible for the selection and maintenance of equipment, monitor product standards and implement quality-control programmes.