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Production Foreman

Johannesburg
Salary: Market Related
Job Type: Permanent
Sectors: Manufacturing
Reference: 2320250

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Vacancy Details

Employer: Sotina Recruitment

Job Summary:

To ensure effective management of the factory and its staff (production departments and all related activities) and to ensure uptime, output, and targets are continuously achieved and ensuring that the quality requirements of the organisation are maintained to the highest possible standard and to provide feedback to top management as necessary.

Minimum Job Requirements:

Manage factory staff and ensure productivity, output and efficiencies are achieved.

Achieve required output and uptime, reducing waste and downtime.

Ensure timesheets are completed correctly and accurately.

Ensure that all tooling, (Dies, Cylinders, Doctor blades etc.) consumables and raw material

inputs are available at the presses in advance of changeovers., reducing time for change

overs on all machines.

Plan and complete production staffing schedules, presenting and requesting overtime and

temp requirements for approval.

Assist with WIP stock counts.

Assist machine operators in running their machines correctly and optimally.

Ensure the production plan is followed and achieved to meet all deadlines.

Engage with engineering as and when required to ensure optimal performance and minimal

disruption to production from breakdowns etc.

Strive to have a healthy and productive work environment in line with company policies and

procedures.

Ensure quality standards are met and quality products are always produced and in time.

Working with the quality department as necessary.

Engage with all departments as necessary to ensure production outputs are achieved and

to resolve production disruptions or problems identified.

Required Skills

Supervision Of Staff And Allocation: 5 to 6 years
Lithography: 5 to 6 years
Gravure Printing Production: 5 to 6 years
Production Foremen: 5 to 6 years
Printing And Packaging Industry: 5 to 6 years

Candidate Requirements

Minimum Qualifications and experience: Matric with Printing Trade test Qualification.

5– 10 years on the job experience within a printing and packaging industry

Knowledge of printing presses, including the sheet fed process and finish.ing process.

Knowledge of Gravure Printing Principles and or Litho Principles.

Experience managing staff, having excellent people skills. Must be able to effectively and

professionally communicate and interact at all levels.

Fully computer literature.

Ability to work shifts.

Able to work overtime when required.

Have good problem-solving skills.

Minimum

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About Sotina Recruitment

Sotina Recruitment Agency - Sotina Holding was established in 2010 and provides recruitment services to business partners. Our offices are based in Johannesburg Gauteng and Paarl Western Cape. We adapt best practices to facilitate sourcing, validating and evaluating profiles to deliver candidates of the required skills and calibre to our clients. Based on the requirement of the job profile, we search for candidates from our online database and we also advertise in local platforms like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, we pride ourselves with high quality standards, professionalism, integrity, passion and excellent customer service. We recruit top calibre candidates throughout South Africa.

Our human resources management solutions range from permanent recruitment, short-term long-term contract placements.

These are more reasons to partner with us:

Our candidates go through comprehensive background checks

Team

We have a multi-talented team of highly experienced recruitment consultants, who specialize in different industries and sectors. Our team of consultants works in close coordination with clients to conceptualize their requirements and offer them best solutions. Further, we also have a dedicated team of customer care, who attend to all the queries of the clients and furnish them with complete information about the services.

Customer Satisfaction

While speed, dependability, reliability and efficiency are our priority, customer satisfaction is the ultimate goal. Our unique working methodology and untiring efforts enable us to shortlist appropriate candidates, who are at the helm of rendering the best of present generation services. We utilize our in-depth market knowledge and comprehensive research techniques to meet the unique requirements of every client