Leading manufacturer and supplier to the mining industry seeks Technical Manager Qualification Matric. N6 Me...
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Technical Manager
Leading manufacturer and supplier to the mining industry seeks Technical Manager
Qualification
- Matric.
- N6 Mechanical Engineering or Higher Qualification essential
Requirements
- Previous experience in a heavy engineering manufacturing / production environment essential including experience on hydraulics.
- Experience in quality control ensuring products are produced according to specification and safety measures adhered to.
- Experience drawing up specifications for new products including material requirements, bill of materials, engineering drawings for machining purposes, performance specifications and recommendations for preferred suppliers.
- Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.
Duties
- Head up the Health and Safety team as guided by an external consultant
- Maintaining company quality standard by approving incoming material and components, in-process production, finished products and maintaining records of the results and ensure product compliance to legal standards and customer expectations.
- Assist with production planning and head the technical purchasing and planning department.
- Ensure existing products comply with the specifications.
- Investigate and propose improvements to current products.
- Assist R&D department with new product development.
- Produce a costing analysis of new products.
- Update costing analysis of existing products as required.
- Investigate and implement cost saving strategies in terms of materials and labour.
- Produce technical product reports for customers.
- Attend to any technical queries on the shop floor and machine shop.
- Assist sales team with any technical queries.
- Conduct product training.
- Investigate and produce reports for any warranty claims.
- Ensure system bill of materials for all products are accurate and update as required.
- Source and approve new suppliers.
- Produce planning schedules based on product forecasts.
- Ensure buying department places orders based on planning.
- Review purchase orders for best price and quality.
- Ensure minimum stock levels are maintained.
- Produce weekly production priority list for machine shop.
- Assist with stock cycle counts and investigate discrepancies.
- Assist with periodic stock counts and investigate discrepancies.
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