• Plan daily, weekly, and monthly production targets.
• Supervise furnace operations, melting, alloy preparation, refining, casting, and ingot production, as applicable.
• Ensure adherence to approved operating procedures, temperature limits, melting cycles, and charging sequences.
• Monitor metal recovery, yield, rejection, dross generation, and material wastage.
• Ensure proper weighing, identification, and batch traceability of raw materials and finished products.
• Coordinate production schedules with sales, stores, and dispatch teams.
• Enforce PPE requirements, including appropriate heat-resistant clothing, face shields, gloves, safety footwear, and other task-specific protection.
• Coordinate preventive and breakdown maintenance of furnaces, rectifiers, transformers, motors, pumps, cranes, and other plant equipment.
• Monitor equipment availability, breakdown frequency, and downtime.
• Ensure maintenance schedules and inspection records are maintained.
• Coordinate with electrical and mechanical teams to resolve operational issues.
• Ensure critical spare parts are available.
• Monitor raw material, alloying additions, consumables, fuel, and spare-parts inventory.
• manage, direct and monitor the overall performance of the manufacturing organisation
• Implement strategies to enhance productivity, minimize downtime, reduce production costs, and ensure compliance with industry regulations, product quality requirements and to assist the team in achieving the monthly Production Targets.
• effective liaison, support and assistance with the whole of the organisation
• Prepare and submit annual operational budgets for approval, manage effectively within this budget and report accurately on progress made and challenges encountered.