Factory Manager

Job Description : Factory Manager Job Location : Uganda Roles & Responsibilities Looking for candidates for the position of Factory Manager for Flexible Plastic Packaging manufacturing plant with minimum 5 years managerial experience in Extrusion machines and processes. The Factory Manager will be responsible to handle the entire factory operations, plan production to meet the sales requirements, focusing on quality and limited wastage and have managerial skills to handle staff. Responsibilities · Ensuring that food safety requirements are adhered to during production; products are made in a hygienic environment and consistently communicate the importance of meeting systems requirement. · Ensures good manufacturing practice (GMP) is implemented in conformance to the systems international standard. · To receive orders and plan production in the most productive and cost effective manner to suit a 24/7 operation in order to ensure the delivers its intended output. · Maintain, implement discipline and housekeeping within the factory and to consistently strive to improve plant efficiency levels. · Discuss planning with the general manager and sales department and ensure clients requirements, as relayed by sales, are met as much as possible. · Maintain aspects of quality control and ensure quality defects are reduced to a minimum and that consistency is achieved thus increase in efficiency. · Continually reevaluate personnel, practices, and procedures to maintain and improve quality, control, safety, levels of production and morale in the staff. · Analyze and organize personnel scheduling to ensure desired workflow of work can be maintained and deadlines met with staffing and production capabilities available. · Establish training program for assigned staff and monitor progress, set performance expectations, review performance, identify training needs, provide coaching and feedback to staff to improve personal and overall production efficiency. · Ensure any machine defects are reported immediately to maintenance and monitor progress. Ensure production equipment and machines are operating at optimum efficiency and machine down time is minimized by means of Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) practices, work order request forms and daily operator feedback logs. · To identify and implement production improvement technique including product development and report on the performance of the systems and any other improvement opportunities. · Ensure production reports are prepared timely and reported to management. Analyze reports to identify and resolve production issues and improve efficiency. · Motivate factory staff to continually achieve factory targets and meet quality requirements. · To always uphold the integrity of the company and the systems when changes are planned and implemented. · Actively involve in both the pre-production (planning) stage as well as production (control and supervision) stage. Also liaise with production team and sales department to ensure the right product as per customer requirement is produced. · Keep abreast of new methods, processes, and procedures to keep the department running smoothly. · Perform any other duties management may consider necessary. Qualifications · Relevant Degree or Diploma in business management, production, or related fields from a recognized institution · Minimum 15 years working managerial experience in factory setting. · Good planning skills. · Good analytical and reporting skills. · Good leadership, managerial and conflict management skills · Knowledge in systems requirement and willingness to learn. · Excellent organization and time management skills · Self-motivated with high level of confidence. · Ability to lead and motivate a team.

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