Certified Energy - East London, South Africa - Abantu Staffing Solutions

Description

Department: Manufacturing
Reporting To: Manufacturing Director

Purpose of the Job:

• To monitor and manage the energy efficiency of the organization by implementing conservation measures, monitor energy consumption, assess business decisions for sustainability and seek out opportunities for increasing energy efficiency.
• Develop and monitor improvement processes and
  performance within their organization

Energy Management:

• Develop and Implement Energy-Saving Strategies.

• Implement energy-related cost-saving measures.

• Calculate the budget, project energy savings, and identify the goals for each project.

• Calculating current energy costs as well as the potential savings of upcoming projects.

• Prepare budget reports and cost estimates.

• Devise a strategy for reducing energy costs and environmental impact.

• Coordinate Sustainability Programmes, including committees, ESG reporting and Sustainable Development Activities.

• Ensure achievement and compliance with ISO 50001 certification.

• Coordinate Management reviews for Energy Management Systems.

• Coordinate energy committee and energy champions.

• Develop a programme of energy-saving projects.

• Maintain a register of energy-saving opportunities.

• Keep abreast of potential energy and water saving products.

• Collect and collate demand profile data from electricity suppliers and corresponding data for fuel consumption.

• Conduct or arrange energy audits and surveys, performance tests and investigations.

• Collate comparative data and yardstick figures for benchmarking purposes.

• Participate in energy benchmarking groups.

Provide training on Energy Saving, Energy Management & Improving the Use of Energy & Resources for all plants.

• Perform Energy Audits at various facilities for energy efficiencies.

• Create and oversee the implementation of short and long-term projects and strategies that increase energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimize unnecessary consumption.

• Carbon footprint reduction initiatives.

• Help the Energy Team to identify progress and setbacks at each plant.

• Provides technical analysis/review for energy projects and project risk assessment.

• Identify and establish working relationships with all engineering departments to execute energy recommendations.

• Member of Group sustainability working group

Continuous Improvement (CI):

• Analyzing company processes and procedures.

• Developing process enhancement strategies.

• Establishing norms and standards of company performance.

• Collaborating with other stakeholders to enhance productivity and staff satisfaction.

• Communicating ideas and opinions to other members of management.

• Training, mentoring, and guiding team members in new processes.

• Staying up to date with developments in management and process optimization.

• Handle in-house training on CI tools and methodologies and guide employees.

• Support CI initiatives and company teams post event for completing action items.

• Perform postmortem meetings after events and address to-do list items.

• Provide weekly report on company activities to director of continuous improvement and management team.

• Create periodic format presentations on company implementation progress to management.

• Offer technical expertise to the company on statistics, Six Sigma methodology, tools and practices.

• Assist departmental improvements.

• Set up standard work on best practices and update system on identified enhancements.

• Lead company's Continuous Improvement Program

Review company's business processes for enhancing effectiveness and benchmark with Industry Best Practice.

• Lead continuous improvement project teams on strategic projects within plant operations.

• Assess processes with set up continuous improvement techniques for performance optimization.

• Lead team meetings, document clear actions and enable timeline achievement.

• Handle information with parties during feedback sharing and drive enhancements.

• Train and mentor on Lean concepts to employees throughout the organization.

Education:

Skills:

•Ability to read, analyse, and interpret plans, specifications, contract documents, control drawings, service bulletins, technical procedure manuals, equipment specifications, and governmental regulations.

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

• Knowledge and experience with HVAC, control, electrical systems and proficiency with energy analysis tools.

• A strategic and analytical mindset.

• An excellent communicator with top-notch presentation skills.

• Dynamic thinking and problem-solving abilities.

• Confidence in your abilities to lead organizational change.

• Continuous Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Business Process Improvement, Change Management, 5S and Kaizen.

• Strong communication skills (verbal & written). Proficient in English, strong numeric and business acumen.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of 5 – 8 Manufacturing and Environment Experience in Energy and /or Continuous Improvement.
• Must have an Engineering Qualification [diploma/degree]-preferably Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial.
• Certified Energy Manager [CEM]-qualification, or Certified Energy Auditor [CEA]-will be greatly beneficial.
• ISO 50001 implementation and certification. Including Auditing and Identifying Opportunities.
• Experience with similar management systems would be beneficial. [ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, IATF 16949 etc.]
• Results driven and a good understanding of Value Chain Operations Excellence
• Lean Manufacturing, Process Control and Optimization Concepts such as Kaizen, Continuous Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, TQM/TPM etc.
• Sound knowledge of MS office applications (Excel, Word, Power-point and Projects)