This role is in the Manufacturing Sector. Manufacturing Operations experience is a requirement.

GMs that fail are actors that don’t care for what their show looks like or what it costs the shareholders to achieve their own failure. They are happy to feign and blame. If you are such a wannabe GM, please apply next door.

A successful GM is always someone who has a knowledge of all the areas of a business, knows what he wants from each and checks to see that each is functioning singly and in unison. They also know that they achieve this through others. Successful GMs are unreservedly committed; they take complete ownership and know when to ask for help or check up on themselves. Successful GMs have formal training, perhaps a degree in Industrial Engineering, and practical experience in business and life. They are more interested in their mastering of life than their status. If this is you, we’d love to meet you.

Ours is a manufacturing environment that has to be modern, clean and efficient. We use this to supply relevant products to the market. The market decides whether our offering is relevant. We don’t force this through trickery of any sort. Our businesses are held together by the invisible power of clear thinking that must come from the entire team in a co-ordinated and unified fashion. We have about 50 staff in total.

Thought Seed:

A pile of stones will lie where they are placed forever. When a human being decides to place those stones into a square shape, the stones move into this square shape. The stone square will be as tidy, organised and clearly formed as the idea of the square is in the human being’s thinking. The stones will now remain in the square form and will only move again when the human being decides to improve the square or move some of the stones to tidy up the shape or put them back on the pile.

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A business is like the stones in that the business unit will look like the thinking that is happening in the General Manager. When the General Manager is not thinking about the business, then things will stay as they are. The infrastructure, processes, culture and ownership within the business will become to the extent that the General Manager has the capacity to think the detail of these realities in the business.

Foundational concepts:

· Know and understand the specific material needs of the market that we are here to meet.

· We need to produce these products efficiently.

· Think and live standards then delegate the tasks to create what is needed.

· Equitable rules, contracts, application thereof, objective measurement and reporting.

· Review and reflection.

Skills and Experience:

• Tertiary technical qualification.
• Succesful track record in Manufacturing Production.
• Minmum 10 years in Production.
• A minimum of 5 years in a Management role.