Plant Manager

Under the direction of the Operations Manager, the Plant Manager is responsible for the entire operations of the manufacturing plant.

The purpose of this position is to manage the manufacturing functions so that he achieves agreed performance in terms of service, quality, and cost.

He is to lead, promote and facilitate continuous improvement activities with production employees to identify enhanced methods.

Drive the use of best manufacturing practices such as cost savings, waste elimination and employee performance.
 

Major Job Responsibilities
 

• Develop and maintain production metrics of quality, production efficiency, delivery, and safety.
• Team up with other departments to coordinate activities and resolve production issues on timely basis.
• Integrate with the Operations Manager to deliver improvements in reliability, quality, safety & health, and environment performance whilst developing production capabilities.
• Develop and implement innovative strategies to streamline factory operations.
• Liaise with Supply Chain Management to maximize output and minimize downtime/bottlenecks.
• Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs.
• In coordination with the Operation Manager, control the raw material availability with continuous quality testing system.
• Take ownership of, and developing the safety, quality control systems, environmental and product costing systems.
• Have full responsibility of the raw materials inventory and finished goods production line.
• Plan the daily targets for the department and managing resources to safely manufacture good quality AAC brick, at efficient cost, whilst ensuring excellent customer service.
• Hands-on supervision of daily operations including workflow scheduling, management of staff; monitoring production quality; managing production processes; and all other activities required to ensure a quality product on-time delivery.
• Assist the entire operation of the plant and machinery with full technical support. 
• Overall supervision of plant, machinery, maintenance, vehicle routing, quality control, …. etc. 
• Monitor Day-to-day program scheduling for deliveries to various sites. 
• Coordinates the overall maintenance activities through planning and communication with peers, team members, customers (internal and external), suppliers, and technical staff. 
• Develop and control plans and budgets for the maintenance area. 
• Follow through with daily checks for accuracy and progress. 
• Coordination with sales & purchase depts. for the effective output of the plant.
• Screen, recruit, and train new factory workers.
• Collaborate with quality control staff to establish and execute quality control processes.
• Analyze production data to identify and resolve any production issues.
• Collect and review data to reduce inefficiencies and waste.
• Prepare production reports and submit them to top management.
• Regular inspection on finished products to examine quality standards.
• Motivate factory workers to continually achieve factory targets.
• Generate and responsible for the following reports:
  • Maintenance File
  • Production Volume
  • Purchasing of raw materials and spare parts from Egypt and overseas
  • Supply Chain