Production Supervisor Upholstery - Coricraft

Key Responsibilities:

Managing, Leading and Controlling

• Day to day management of employees
• To ensure that all employees are exposed to a healthy and safe environment
• RTW sessions scheduled and conducted 

Production and Quality standards 

• Managing an entire sofa production line from start to finish – frame making, poly, foam up, upholstery and bottoms and stubs.
• To ensure that the units produced are on target for each department and are of the correct quality standard.
• Consequence Management
• Contribute to the greater goal of the Factory

Training

• Identify all training need and report to Production Manager  

Performance Management

• Monitoring the individual performance to ensure set standards are maintained and achieved 
• Consequence Management
• Contribute to the greater goal of the Factory

Reporting

• Record all target statistics and data 

Effective Team-work and Self-Management

• Incumbent achieves results in ways that build strong partnerships, both internally and externally
• Client satisfaction / expectation management

Experience and Qualification:

• Grade 12 or NQF level 4 equivalence
• Production Diploma or Certificate advantageous
• Leadership skills
• 3–5-year Supervisory experience
• Planning and organizing
• Experience in furniture manufacturing industry advantageous
• Production knowledge and experience 

Skills:

• Problem solving
• Judgment and decision making
• Tolerance
• Stress handling and resilience
• Rule orientation
• Self-management
• Excellence, quality orientated
• Ethical behavior
• Assertiveness
• Building and maintaining relationships

Behaviours:

• Continually drive best-in-class solutions and practices
• Makes an effort to stay relevant and up to date (with legislation, new developments, etc.)
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management and follow-through with agreed deadlines
• Demonstrate a strong excellence / quality orientation
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
• Manage colleagues and client’s expectations and communicate appropriately
• Manage own disruptive emotions (handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others)
• Be keen to participate in seminars or any conferences in line with prescribed scope of work.

Preference will be given, but not limited to candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.

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