JOBS: Assistant Production Manager at Sanergy
Sanergy is an award-winning social venture that builds healthy, prosperous communities by making hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable in Africa’s urban informal settlements. Our systems-based approach to solving the sanitation crisis involves five key steps: we build a dense network of franchised micro-entrepreneurs, who operate low-cost, high-quality waterless sanitation facilities - called Fresh Life Toilets.
About the role
Sanergy seeks to recruit a strategic Assistant Production Manager who together with the Factory manager will be responsible for running the daily operations in the respective factory.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Breakdown weekly production plan into daily schedules and drive daily adherence to this by line-staff in the Factory
- Break down Lean Daily Management projects into SMART goals with a clear link to the overall goal of organizational maturity in the Factory.
- Schedule and conduct Gemba walks across all sections with respective crew lead line staff to identify opportunities for improvement
- Coach crew leads and support them to understand the process and equip them to detect, escalate and resolve challenges/variances in their domains.
- Lead in the development and resolution of factory-level short-term corrective and preventive actions.
- Coach the crew leads to resolve section-level day-to-day challenges through established problem-solving toolkits.
- Track key resource consumption and cost metrics. These include labor utilization & efficiency, resource utilization, and machine utilization
- Analyze daily production outputs to identify wastes, develop and implement measures to improve processes in liaison with the Factory Manager
- Analyze resource productivity trends and proactively recommend continuous improvement projects to improve inefficient processes
- Lead your teammates in respective sections to execute daily production schedules
- Coordinate respective section crew leads to ensure that processes move in sync (one-piece flow) to achieve daily targets effectively and efficiently
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams (R&D, Continuous Improvement, and Design) to ensure harmony in operations in the Factory
- Circulate and reconcile the production plan in all sections through visual controls such as Lean Management boards
- Through effective scheduling, allocate labor to various sub-processes to ensure > 90% utilization.
- Develop daily production schedules and Leader Standardized Work (LSW) sheets that will be executed by the respective section crew leads.
- Review adherence to daily schedules, implement load leveling and implement actions to correct variances to ensure operations are back on track.
- Monitor day-to-day resource utilization to ensure that all operations are run within budget and as per the tactical plan.
- Work with respective crew leads to ensure that utilities, materials utilization, and set take times are adhered to and tracked on the established platforms
- Coach crew leads to detect and resolve overutilization of resources within their respective sections in the factory
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Agricultural, Process, mechanical, industrial) or relevant fields
- Minimum of 4 years experience working in a factory setting within either of these roles:
- Quality management
- Factory management
- Production Engineer.
- Proficiency in MS Office (word, excel) or Google suite (docs, sheets)
- Proven ability to utilize various cost tracking tools.
- Able to handle coordination and execution of multiple projects
- Great collaboration, communication, and people skills