Job Overview
Job Purpose:
Coordinating, planning and forecasting of the various production activities and processes, and ensuring staff perform as required, training across all departments occurs and stock and inventory is accounted for.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Work with the plant supervisor in planning and coordination of plant activities through planning with section heads to ensure the operations objective are accomplished as per the scheduled work plan.
• Monitoring of plant performance by ensuring that the overall production is as per the set standard, quantity, and quality.
• Assist in monitoring and ensuring that all the departments within the Inspire Africa Coffee are performing and producing as per the set plan and standard, that is primary processing, roastary, freeze, Spray dryer, cold brew and cosmetics departments and engineering departments.
• Ensuring effective functioning of all equipment and machinery through timely identification of problems and resolution.
• Liaising with engineering department to ensure execution of the preventative maintenance program.
• Assist in ensuring effective supply or distribution of coffee products to various outlets
• Monitoring and ensuring presence of a clean working environment.
• Developing and implementation of mechanisms to control and minimize costs like labor, overtime, consumable consumption and repair expenses.
• Assist to maintain and monitor the following records; Plant maintenance, processing, Spares, Raw materials, Inventory, Follow best practices, and ensure company receives full value of personal experience.
• Support the stock management process accountably.
• Stock/Material management; ensuring continuous monitoring of stock levels,
• Storage of materials in this case coffee and products and requisition of raw materials.
• Ensure coffee as a raw material is always on hand and follow up timeously on order deliveries.
• Ensure minimum levels of raw materials and product are maintained.
• Ensure production of quality products.
• Ensuring production of quality coffee and other products produced on site including cosmetics among others
• Participate in the designing, review and ensuring effective implementation of the plant procedures, processes, and controls.
• Assist in handling of employee grievances and complaints, through mediation and forwarding staff issues to the Head of Department, HR or the respective authorities.
• Provide leadership & training to plant staff to develop individual employee skills hence leading to improved staff and plant performance and staff competencies.
• Monitoring staff performance, through review of individual performance appraisals and establishing of appropriate actions or mechanisms aimed at improving employee performance.
• Ensuring employee compliance with the set health and safety standards
• Maintain discipline of site staff.
• Any other role that maybe assigned from time to time
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree: Preferably in Food Science, Agriculture, Agronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Horticulture, Agricultural Economics or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience in quality control, production preferably in the manufacturing industry-Production Engineering: Freeze dry tech and spray dry, roasting machines, grading facilities, a lot of packaging equipment, boilers, water treatment plant, extractions.
• Experience with coffee quality assessment, grading, and certification processes is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with coffee grading standards and quality control procedures.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate coffee quality and detect defects.
• Proficiency in project management and ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Experience in developing and executing work plans and schedules.
• High attention to detail to ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Ability to document and track quality metrics accurately.
• Ability to identify quality issues and develop effective solutions to address them.
• Passionate about coffee and committed to maintaining high-quality standards.
• Ability to travel to various locations, including suppliers and production facilities, as needed.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Job application procedure
All candidates who meet the criteria outlined as above are encouraged apply under the job vacancy “QSSU-IA-PPM-PLANT AND PRODUCTION MANAGER”
Application link:
https://qsourcingservtec.applytojob.com/apply/aHJPiencOX/QSSUIAPPMPLANT-AND-PRODUCTION-MANAGER
Note:
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
The deadline for applications is not later than 05:00 pm Tuesday 3rd September, 2024
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More Information
- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
- Salary Offer Not disclosed USD not-disclosed Month
