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Operational Excellence Manager (Durban, ZA)
Purpose of the Job
To manage and faciliate the operations of the business to optimize and sustain levels of plant production
What you’ll be doing
• Drive operations excellence strategy and improvement in production capacity by line-balancing
• Sequencing changeovers, driving implementation of operations excellence initiative to create a culture of process improvement,
• Develop business insights derived from process understandings to help internal and external customers identify constrains in their processes and highlight potential areas of improvement
• Reduce the Stock Loss with Vessel discharges.
• Ensure all risk of cross contamination is identified prior to Blending.
• Reducing manufacturing cost through downtime reduction
• Improved production through-put and by removing cycle time inefficiencies & waste to improve all production inefficiency.
• Improving plant manufacturing through-put, performance and reducing total cost of quality non-conformance by focusing on: Safety, Schedule, Cost and Quality
• Ensure Production constrains are identified timeously.
• Drive End-to-end Operations Process Transformation
• Ensure Equipment Integrity & Quality Assurance is met.
• Implement standardized operations KPI framework.
• Ensure Shutdown plan start up plan with SOP.
• Drive Closure of all internal and external Plant audits.
• Be actively involved in conceptual and basic engineering of all Operation Project
• Sequencing changeovers, driving implementation of operations excellence initiative to create a culture of process improvement,
• Develop business insights derived from process understandings to help internal and external customers identify constrains in their processes and highlight potential areas of improvement
• Reduce the Stock Loss with Vessel discharges.
• Ensure all risk of cross contamination is identified prior to Blending.
• Reducing manufacturing cost through downtime reduction
• Improved production through-put and by removing cycle time inefficiencies & waste to improve all production inefficiency.
• Improving plant manufacturing through-put, performance and reducing total cost of quality non-conformance by focusing on: Safety, Schedule, Cost and Quality
• Ensure Production constrains are identified timeously.
• Drive End-to-end Operations Process Transformation
• Ensure Equipment Integrity & Quality Assurance is met.
• Implement standardized operations KPI framework.
• Ensure Shutdown plan start up plan with SOP.
• Drive Closure of all internal and external Plant audits.
• Be actively involved in conceptual and basic engineering of all Operation Project
Who you are
• You have worked in a Petrochemical industry.
• You have excellent interpersonal, problem-solving skills.
• You are passionate, team player and can work independently.
• You have excellent skills in the petroleum industry.
• You have a reputation for multiple projects.
• You are an expert in planning and organizing
• You have excellent interpersonal, problem-solving skills.
• You are passionate, team player and can work independently.
• You have excellent skills in the petroleum industry.
• You have a reputation for multiple projects.
• You are an expert in planning and organizing
What you’ve done Before
EXPERIENCE MINIMUM
NQF Level 7 (Degree in Chemical Engineering)
5 years Operational Excellence experience within Refining/ Lubes Manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of ISO systems ISO 9001, 14001
2 years People Management experience
ADVANTAGEOUS EXPERIENCE
Green belt certification
5 years Lubricants/Petrochem industry
4 years Petrochemical
Lean & 6 Sigma experience
Exciting Challenges
- Provide technical support/advice to internal customers by liaising with OEM on mechanical including packaging failures and participating in Plant Shutdown tasks to ensure efficient business operations.
- Execute Mechanical infrastructure maintenance activities through the execution of all infrastructure programs, thereby ensuring reliability and integrity of equipment and systems.
- Efficient co-ordination and completion of relevant documents and provide feedback to supervisor on all completed work by submitting the execution documentation for work pack, statutory compliance, and management of change process in order to update the schedule
- Ensure tasks are executed as per written procedures and per weekly plan and schedule by interacting with the relevant teams to schedule tasks to be completed during an outage and providing input into the weekly maintenance plan to ensure maintenance is carried out as per agreed timelines
Additional Information
Band: EL
Location: Durban
Job Advert Closing Date: All job adverts close five days after date posted
Engen’s approved Employment Equity plans and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process.
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Important Information:
- The appointment will be made in line with Engen’s Employment Equity Strategy.
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- If not submitted by the closing date, your application will automatically not be considered.
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