Key Responsibilities:
Quality of Work:
- Ensure that all current work standards are available, current, and followed.
- Ensure targets are achieved by teams, and quality requirements are maintained.
- Identify process deviations and corrections and implement improvements.
- Adherence to Standards (Safety, build specs):
- Conduct start-up meetings and end-of-shift meetings to reinforce safety and build spec standards.
- Ensure correct PPE standards and health and safety regulations are adhered to by all team members.
- Conduct HSE Risk Assessments and 5S Audits.
- Do shift hand over and walkabout before start of every shift.
- Ensure routing labels are completed and correct.
Team Unity:
- Conduct shift handovers and walkabouts to foster communication and team spirit.
- Encourage feedback and inputs to enhance team performance, motivation, and communication.
- Resolve line stops, production delays, and support service issues promptly to maintain team morale.
- Have daily feedback meetings with internal customer to ensure requirements are on track and attend Obeya meetings.
Effective Resources Management:
- Assist with manpower allocation plans and communicate capacity per project/priority.
- Organise the workplace, ensuring tools, molds, jigging, consumables, and hardware are available for efficient shift start-ups.
- Monitor and address timekeeping, absenteeism, and skill balance within teams.
- Manage resources within budget limits, including tools, consumables, and overtime.
- Update all training documentation. Review technical training plan to ensure skill- levels and depth are balanced.
- Keep training Matrixes and records updated and oversee training processes. Ensure updated records are handed in at HR.
- Conduct counselling and disciplinary processes according to the AAT standard policies.
Skills & Requirements:
- Education: Minimum Grade 12
- NQF4-6 Leadership certificate an advantage
- At least 5 years relevant work experience in composite or leadership role.
- Basic Microsoft Office knowledge
- SAP knowledge to AAT processing will be an advantage
- Must be able to lead and manage a team
- SAP, delegating, waste reduction, ergonomics, HSE policies and procedures
- Manufacturing Principles and of composites, production planning
- Aerospace quality standards (AS9100), manufacturing systems, material control
- Problem solving, work standards & customer requirements
- Root cause analysis (Problem Solving), set goals, organise, deliver on time
- Understanding & reading technical drawings, technical tools, planning
- Human Factor (Behaviour), people skills, task driven output
- Good & professional communicating skills
- Result driven, goal setter, increase targets through improvements, work under pressure, work overtime
- Organising plans, highlight risk/ deviations, proactive thinking, willing to learn and train others
- Work shifts and flexible on prolonged hours
Job Type: Permanent
Pay: R25 000,00 - R35 000,00 per month
Application Question(s):
- Can you describe a time when you had to lead a production line team to meet daily or weekly targets under pressure? How did you motivate your team and ensure quality standards were maintained?
- Tell us about a production problem (e.g., a bottleneck, quality issue, or downtime) that you identified and resolved. What steps did you take, and what was the result?
Education:
- High School (matric) (Preferred)
Work Location: In person