Industrial Engineer - Durban, South Africa - Platinum Placements

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    Platinum Placements Durban, South Africa

    Found in: Job Placements ZA C2 - 1 week ago

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    Description
    • Diploma in Industrial Engineering
    • Able to read CAD Drawings
    • 5 years experience in a similar role

    Process Controls:

    • Plan, schedule and monitor production (Sales requirements, stock levels, maintenance requirements, change overs, etc.).
    • Schedule and arrange change-overs according to the Production Plan (changeover sequence, tool changes, cutting knives, water jet nests, etc.).
    • Capacity planning and calculation to determine overtime / planned stop requirements

    Production Management:

    • Optimise the production process.
    • Maintain manufacturing and production efficiencies.
    • Ensure the optimal and efficient use of resources.
    • Balance the production lines (manning levels).
    • Monitor the achievement of daily production targets.
    • Analyse daily variances and identify opportunities for improvements.
    • Investigate and resolve manufacturing related problems and sub-standard performance.

    Project Management:

    • Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.

    Raw Material Management:

    • Monitor the level of production material to ensure sufficient material to support production.

    Lean:

    • Train Lean Modules.
    • Implement Lean in all factories:
    • 5S
    • Std. Work.
    • Quick Changeover.
    • Kanban.
    • Constraints Management.
    • TPM.
    • Visual management.
    • VSM (Value stream mapping).
    • Roll throughput yield (First time right) / Rework reduction.

    OEE:

    • Drive specific action items to improve OEE / OPR.
    • Develop and implement headcount management tools to accurately predict the no. of heads that labour needs to be flexed by, or the expected overtime requirement due to excessive orders.
    • Develop and implement Capacity planning tools.
    • Drive Live OEE reporting systems.

    CI / Innovation:

    • Leading and facilitating continuous improvement efforts by directing relevant staff.
    • Training and improving continuous improvement staff to meet required KPIs.
    • Research new equipment technology & promote innovation.
    • Coordinate Kaizen improvement initiatives at plant level.
    • Champion problem solving activities b.m.o. 6 Sigma.
    • Define and implement MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems).

    Continuous improvement:

    • Monitors continuous improvements and makes suggestions to maximise production output.

    Best Business Practice (BBP):

    • Assist Operation Manager to define BBP (Best Business Practice) criteria.
    • Systemize the collection and reporting of BBP data.
    • Use BBP info to leverage the implementation of a specific plants best practice in the other plants. E.g., Implementation of PEs ability to use cheaper chemicals in the Rosslyn plant.

    Quality:

    • Create Control Plan templates to increase comprehensiveness of Control Plan and reduce new project control plan compilation time.
    • Actively participate in the reduction of COPQ (Cost of Poor Quality).
    • Analyse audit reports/result in terms of repeated deficiencies, reviewing with process owners