What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Operations Coordinator position at Aalberts integrated piping systems?
Job Overview:
The Plant Operations Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the plant, ensuring production schedules are met while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency.
This role involves managing a team of production employees, coordinating resources, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to meet business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure safe working practices are applied to all production processes according to EHS standard and work procedure.
- Perform daily safety observations (Walk & talk, JSA, etc).
- Ensure daily production schedules and targets are met while maintaining quality and efficiency standards, including optimizing labor utilization.
- Manage daily: absenteeism, holidays, safety rules enforcement, environment risk analysis, tier 1 communication meeting & performance boards update.
- Ensure respect of standard stops (breaks, meetings) by checking systematically on Gemba, and validate operators working time.
- Monitor and adjust production processes to optimize workflow and minimize downtime.
- Coordinate with other departments to ensure smooth operations and timely delivery of products.
- Perform On Job Training of his/her teams every day on standards implemented, coach any gaps/deviation, provide constant feedback to the team and APU Manager.
- Approve and verify employee timecards to ensure accuracy and compliance with company policies.
- Ensure that all timecards are approved and submitted on time for the processing of payroll weekly.
- Communicate and make schedule changes to employee's timecards in a timely manner, addressing any conflicts or issues that arise.
- Analyze ShopVue data to track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as machine efficiency, labor productivity, and downtime.
- Work with the team to ensure accurate input of production data and resolve discrepancies to maintain data integrity within the system.
- Analyse flexibility and multiskill needs of his/her area, and define training plans to develop team autonomy and improvement plan.
- Coordinate with all production supervisors to ensure the plant runs as efficiently as possible.
- Monitor his/her area downtime and performance, anticipate downtime due to machine/material/labor issues
- Must be able to handle several tasks at the same time, prioritize and escalate to APU Manager accordingly.
