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Manufacturer
OFO Code: 132101
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 132101
- Occupation
- Manufacturer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- MANAGERS
- Unit group
- 1321 · Manufacturing Managers
Official description
Manufacturing managers plan, direct, and coordinate manufacturing production activities of large enterprises or as the manager of a small manufacturing company.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Factory Manager
- Identifying business opportunities and determining products to be manufactured
- Overseeing the provision of quotes for the manufacture of specialised goods and establishing contracts with customers and suppliers
- Determining, implementing and monitoring production strategies, policies and plans
- Overseeing the acquisition and installation of new plant and equipment
- Controlling the preparation of production records and reports
- Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, and adjusting processes and resources to minimize costs
- Planning details of production activities in terms of output quality and quantity, cost, time available and labour requirements
- Coordinating the implementation of occupational health and safety requirements
- Controlling the operation of production plant and quality procedures through planning of maintenance, designation of operating hours and supply of parts and tools
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff
- Researching and implementing regulatory and statutory requirements affecting manufacturing operations and the environment
- Consulting with and informing other managers about production matters
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.
3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
Browse the official South African industry classification →8. Next steps — official links
9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.