BMW Vacancies

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Process Leader

Responsibilities

• To achieve daily volume targets through mean time to repair and mean time between failures by proactively managing and initiating.
• To identify non-conformances, provide all customer concerns to the associates, initiate problem solving and implement robust.
• To identify non-conformances, provide all customer concerns to the associates, initiate problem solving and implement robust.
• To ensure process adherence, optimise and monitor core processes to ensure stability and continuous improvement.
• To manage and achieve allocated section budget as cost per unit target for the section to remain profitable and cost effective.
• To ensure a healthy and safe environment through enforcing compliance to IMS requirements
• Daily implementation of work organisation within areas of responsibility to drive effective communication within the production system.
• To effectively manage teams by timeously completing daily administrative tasks (time management, leave planning, and payroll queries, shift allocations) to ensure a satisfied and productive workforce.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Production / Engineering or equivalent
• Leadership/Management qualifications would be an advantage.
• Minimum 3 years automotive/manufacturing industry experience.
• Minimum 2 years Logistics experience required.
• Minimum 2 years people management experience.
• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Leading and Supervising
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Coping with Pressures and Setbacks
• Analysing
• Planning and Organising

Please attach all supporting documents when applying.

Artisan

What awaits you?

Quality:      

• To support the team in achieving all Product, Process and System Quality targets (as per the Target Commitment Process)
• Ensure all required records and documentation are retained and updated
• Ensure adherence to ISO 14001
• Responsible for ensuring all equipment is maintained and repaired to the required quality standards (without supervision)
• Instigating changes to ensure quality improvements in the maintenance work done
• Together with support staff, set the required quality standards for maintenance work

Flexibility:

• Support the production team in achieving the Production volume, by quick response to breakdowns
• Commissioning equipment to ensure smooth production
• Adhere to the required shift pattern to ensure optimal support to production
• Needs to develop to ensure good support in all fields of the BIW environment (i.e. electrical and mechanical)
• Needs to develop skills in such a way that specialist tasks can be performed in more than one of the specialist technology groups
• Perform maintenance actions after hours as required to support production
• Ensure all breakdowns are resolved before handing over equipment to the following shift (extra work time)
• Needs to stand in for Team leader when required
• Responsible to perform plant testing and commissioning on weekends

Productivity:

• Support his manager and implement measures to achieve Budget, Headcount and Equipment Productivity targets
• Eliminating equipment failure by means of preventative maintenance.
• Gaining all required knowledge of the plant and equipment to ensure that first hand information is available at all times.
• Optimize and continuously improve equipment and systems to optimize product quality, plant availability and reliability.
• Scope of equipment responsibility, all BIW specific equipment
• Fault finding on integrated systems
• Needs to sustain specialized skills in assigned technology group and advanced skills in all other technologies
• Needs to develop contact to the other BMW manufacturing plants to ensure technology specific synergies are optimally utilized
• Needs to plan optimum usage of available spares / equipment during breakdowns and preventative maintenance actions to the advantage of the plant
• Adherence to maintenance/production rules of conduct

Human Resources:

• Support the team in achieving the Human Resource targets
• Share knowledge freely with all colleagues to ensure growth in team skills
• Develop training sessions and give the training on the specialized technology
• Take ownership for personal / soft skills development

Environment:

• Assist management in achieving the Environmental (ISO 14001) targets and conform to all BMW standards and procedures
• To ensure that all work is performed competently and in accordance with BMW specifications, the OHS Act and ISO 14001.
• To ensure that all equipment and work areas are safe at all times to prevent accidents or injury to personnel.
• Ensure that equipment is maintained in accordance with safety regulations.

What you should bring along?

• Minimum N4 or National diploma
• Grade 12 and N4 with Trade Test in the following disciplines:
  • Millwright
  • Auto electrical.
• Min 3 years related experience in electrical & mechanical maintenance, in an automated production environment
• Problem Solving skills
• High level technical and analytical skills
• Specialized knowledge and experience on automated systems

Please attach all supporting documents when applying. 

Students

Job Function of position needing to be filled:

Assist the CDS team across the different sals channels with the completion of the administration relating to processing orders, ensuring that the vehicles undergo the pre-delivery processes and supporting with the follow-up processes.   To support with the auditing of deal files to ensure that the required documentation has been uploaded and the correct data has been captured.

Special Attributes/Skills:

Computer literacy

Accuracy

Attention to detail

Sense of urgency

Good communication skills

Qualification: 

Bachelor of Business Administration | Bachelor of Business Management

Quality Inspector

• Responsible for the identification of the Causes of Mutilation (Scratches and Damages) within Plant Rosslyn and the correct allocation of them to the causing areas.

• Steering the development and documentation of Mutilation protection requirements for all areas within Assembly plant, including protective covers for the car, sockets for the tools and protective covers for manipulators, equipment, etc. Ensuring the requirements are known to those who use and maintain the equipment.

• Liaising with all levels of management to ensure that counter actions are developed rapidly and effectively.

• Where corrective actions have been applied, to follow up on the effectiveness of measures implemented and propose further improvements if not successful. To work together with the line leadership to develop sustainable solutions.

• To facilitate the rapid flow of information from Offline to Online relating to Mutilation and the requirements to prevent further cases.

• Responsible for the quantity, maintenance and cleanliness of the vehicle protective covers, to ensure that they are fit for purpose.

• Responsible to communicate the Mutilation landscape daily report with pictures/silhouettes and responsible parties allocated.

• Communicate and steer mutilation topics across technologies as a central co-ordination point.

• Develop pro-active, preventative measures, for example – conduct HOT SPOT checks on wearing, protective equipment to facilitate the refurbishment / replacement prior to failures causing mutilation.

Additional responsibilities

• To conduct, on a rotational basis, audits on completed vehicles, highlighting the defect landscape for action by the plant management, through the necessary Defect Awareness documents. Accuracy and correctness of bookings are critical to the successful impact of the product audits.

• Supporting on system checks, containment measures, etc, especially where the cause of the defect is not known.

• Analysing, investigating non mutilation defects, as and when required, with the purpose to determine cause and thus the basis for containment and corrective actions.

• Development of training / awareness material relating to mutilation, causes and prevention there-of.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification: Diploma or higher in any qualification
• Must have a Driver’s License

Production Analyst

Main Duties:

– This is a more detailed definition of the Summery of Duties. Whenever possible, define WHAT, HOW and FOR WHAT PURPOSE. Also use words related to Management Duties such as: initiates, delegates, directs, supervises, controls, plans and checks.
– Responsible to ensure all emergency parts supply issues are solved pro-actively with all parties internal and external in order to avoid crippled units being build and line stoppages
– Ensure all emergency supply issues are resolved
– Monitor, track and control all material movements from the Warehouse to the line, via the STARD monitoring cockpit, to ensure uninterrupted supply from warehouses, as per set targets (agreed parameters)
– Investigating, analysis, updating and maintenance of Control Cycles and Material Master Overviews as and when required.
– Responsible for the tracking of emergency supply parts into the plant and then to production to ensure target achievement
– Responsible to ensure proper tracking of part shortages (Root Cause) and report figures at the end of each shift.
– Decision making and co-ordination on need to call off emergency container(s).
– Responsible for the tracking of the manual requests on the shift (which is to be included on the Shift Report)
– Ensure the flow of information between the line and the material planners to avoid any confusion or incorrect information
– Decision making on the proposal to block units in selectivity to R-10 in accordance with part shortages found or other risks to avoid crippled units and line stoppages, and if it is a 100% take rate part then input for decision to stop the affected area (eg. Assembly or Bodyshop)
– To monitor and control JIT/JIS & Direct supply in order to prevent building crippled units and line stoppages

– Liaise with the external warehouses and service providers to ensure parts are available within defined lead times for supply to the lines
– Call-off of required parts from the external warehouses for emergency parts
– Decision making on the priority of emergency parts to avoid stoppages (which includes re-directing of emergency containers between the warehouses to avoid crippled units and line stoppages)
– Ensure that all emergency parts (manual requested parts, parts where kollies called from external warehouse or parts where container called from depot) are counted by cycle counting to ensure that VPRD (and in general the available stock) values are accurate.
– Responsible for the emergency procedure when SAP goes down in the plant, and to coordinate the effort of supply of parts to the line (BMW line supply associates and JIT/JIS supply).
– Responsible to be aware of the daily engineering changes, and to pro-actively check.
– Responsible to be aware of the PÜ changes, and to pro-actively check
– Responsible to ensure that all emergency parts and problem parts that may cause an emergency are counted and adjusted by the relevant department/team/person to maintain an accurate VPRD
– Compilation of the relevant Shift reports and KPI overviews, as per STARD monitoring cockpit.
– Responsible to gather initial information on the reason for any stoppage or cripple, and to include this in the Shift Report
– Updating the Shift Report with absenteeism figures across the Logistics areas on the shift
– Escalation of topics that she/he cannot solve to the Shift Leader or relevant persons available or relevant departments available (eg. IT when SAP goes down)
– Creation and preparation of data, analyses and presentations to aid the decision making for management

Description of Auxiliary Activities:
List the activities that are required by the Incumbent but are not necessarily part of the job requirements

– Support Process Supporters and Process leaders to prevent any emergencies from being created.
– Improve/ analyse/ create efficient and sustainable logistics processes.
– Ensure logistical input accuracy for day-to-day logistics.
– Adhere to 5S and VPS standards in the Control Room.

Job Requirements:
Education

– NDip – Logistics Management or NDip – Industrial Engineering or NDip – Information systems
– SAP Knowlegde/ Certification

Experience:

– Job related experience – Physical Logistics (Warehouse and Line supply processes)
– Preferably 4 years logistics experience
– Good SAP Experience (to be able to investigate, understand and resolve supply processes)
– Problem solving by using all available logistical tools and monitoring Cockpits
– DS&R Processes
– Presentation skills
– Leadership skills
– Cross functional knowledge in material flow and assembly processes.

Knowledge and Skills:

– Computer skills: MS Excel, SAP
– Physical Logistics processes
– Material Control and Supply
– Knowledge in Engineering Changes
– PÜ Processes
– DS&R Processes
– Cross cultural tolerance and experience with dealing at all levels in the organization structure,
– People management skills.
– SAP: Inventory and Warehouse Management (IWM), EMCC, ZLAPD
 

Languages:

-English (verbal, written, reading)

Technician

Responsibility:

Breakdown resolution and technical improvements on all BIW equipment. TPM, H&S, SAP breakdown booking.

Purpose and key accountabilities:

Quality:          To support the team in achieving all Product, Process and System Quality targets and drive optimisationsEnsure problems are contained and not transferred to internal or external customers.Ensure all required records and documentation are retained and updated.Ensure adherence to ISO 9000 and ISO 14000Responsible for ensuring all equipment is maintained and repaired to the required quality standards.

Flexibility:Support the production team in achieving the Production volume, by quick response to breakdowns.Needs to develop knowledge and skills to ensure good support in all fields of the BIW environment (i.e. electrical and mechanical)Ensure all breakdowns are resolved or handed over, any additional time at the applicable wage/overtime rates.

Productivity: Support his manager and implement measures to achieve Budget, Volume and Equipment ProductivityDrive continuous improvement in technical availability.Reporting breakdowns in timely manner using specified methods and systems.Scope of equipment responsibility, all BIW specific equipmentFault finding on integrated systems.Needs to develop advanced skills in assigned technology groups.

Human Resources:Share knowledge freely with all colleagues to ensure growth in team skills.Take ownership for personal / soft skills development.

Enivornment:Assist management in achieving the Environmental (ISO 14000) targets and conform to all BMW standards and procedures.To ensure that all work is performed competently and in accordance with BMW specifications, the OHS Act and ISO 14000.To ensure that all equipment and work areas are safe at all times to prevent accidents or injury to personnel.Ensure that equipment is maintained in accordance with safety regulations.

Qualification:

• National diploma Electrical/ Mechanical or Degree Electrical/ Mechanical
• Min 3 years related experience in electrical & mechanical maintenance, in an automated production environment.
• Problem Solving skills.
• High level technical and analytical skills
• Specialized knowledge and experience on automated systems

Process Supporter

Process Supporter 

You will be responsible to plan, lead, organize and control all aspects and activities within the specific work unit to ensure the hourly achievement of targets (quality, cost, delivery and safety) and continuous improvement through the technical supervision of direct associates, coaching and training of associates and all line activities while improving all relevant standards.

• To drive of daily work organisation within areas of responsibility in order to drive effective communication within the production system.
• To achieve hourly volume targets through mean time to repair and mean time between failures by proactively managing and initiating containment action, immediate problem solving and/or escalation when necessary.
• To identify non-conformances, provide all customer concerns to the associates, initiate problem solving and implement robust processes to exceed customer satisfaction.
• To ensure process adherence, optimise and observe core processes through daily process conformation to ensure stability and continuous improvement.
• To control and contribute to the allocated section budget as cost per unit target in order for the section to remain profitable and cost effective.
• To maintain a healthy and safe environment through enforcing compliance to JMS requirements
• To ensure versatility within the team through coaching, training and development, and collaboration with associates with the support of the process leader.
• Ensure 4-eye principle is performed diligently.
• During breakdown of tools, ensure contingency plan is activated while breakdown is being attended to.
• Prepares and leads 5-minute-meeting with Associates.
• Holds a shift handover conversation with counter-part.
• Establishes machine start according to checklist, ensuring production capability.
• Repairs minor malfunctions.
• Raise near-hits monthly on PowerApp.
• Maintain Process board daily.

Qualifications and Experiences

• Minimum National Diploma (Industrial/Mechanical/Electrical/Logistics/Operations)
• Minimum 2 years automotive/manufacturing industry experience.
• Minimum 1 year technical specific experience would be an advantage.
• Minimum 1 year leadership experience would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of company policies and guidelines.
• Risk Management.
• JMS Systems.
• Product/Process Knowledge would be an advantage

Please attached all supporting documents when applying.

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All the best with your applications.