Project Supervisor at H & Y Furniture Manufacturers

Purpose of the job

To plan, organise, coordinate and control of all manufacturing processes for all divisions of the business and also tender adquate reports promptly.

Key Accountabilities

Strategy & Budgets :

• To implement and maintain the company operations strategy , to deliver the customer service objectives and to work cross functionally with the commercial business
• Develop sysytems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards , metrics  and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.

Production Planning & Organising :

• Plan , organize , direct and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers’ expectations
• Organize workflows to meet specifications and deadlines and implement methodology to measure due date delivery performance
• Evaluate production schedules to plan team structures and development
• Oversee the pre-production meeting to Implement strategies to reduce expenses and increase productivity across all product lines
• Develop and maintain production metrics for quality , delivery and safety

Team Management  

• Build strong rapport with the production team through open communication, promote a positive, safe , productive and efficient work environment
• Continually analyse, identify and set expectations to motivate team members to achieve objectives and goals

Quality Assurance

• Ensure that items/ product produced by the production team always meet quality standards
• Monitor products standards at various levels of production and at the point of release so that cost of rework is reduced /eliminated

Process Improvement :

• Review and recommend appropriate measures to control and minimise waste level
• Review production practices and equipment: make proposal for improvement to ensure that they are maximally effective
• Encourage a culture which strives for growth, continuous improvement and self-development.

Customer Management

• Work closely with the production team to ensure timely delivery to customer
• Oversee site installation

Organisational Relationships

• Directly Reports to:    FOM, HR and MD
• Work Directly with:   Design, Production,Procurement,Warehouse & Logisitics head, Design Installation.                                              

Qualifications, experience and attributes

• Good first degree in business administration, finance or relevant discipline
• Possession of a higher degree(s), such as M.Sc, MBA, PMP is desirable
• Minimum of fifteen  (3) years’ relevant experience with at least five (5) years in senior managerial capacity in a similar role, preferably in a multinational FMCG environment
• Strong strategic orientation, interpersonal
• Strong operational orientation
• Collate and report activities of insattion team and tender same accordingly.
• Visitation to sites
• Update on project progress to FOM for management meetings
• Make recommendations.

Key Competency Requirements 

• Micro Economic and industry knowledge
• Good understanding of market research and analysis
• Strategic and creative thinking. Project Management skills; strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills; able to think methodically and analytically
• Strong organisational and leadership skills