Reporting to the Manufacturing Director this role will be a critical link within the operations leadership team in a fast paced, high quality manufacturing environment. This role will require someone with both strategic and operational leadership experience in a comparable environment, used to leading a cross functional team.
Key responsibilities include:
Ensuring standards and procedures are in place and regularly updated to govern all site engineering activities including aspects of new asset realisation, safe working practices, management of contractors and assessment of competencies within the teams
Ensuring continued improvement in engineering skills through a structured development and training programme, matching skill levels to the requirement of the site operation
Creating, implementing and managing both maintenance, staffing and capital expenditure budgets to achieve factory and business targets including supplier optimisation and minimal inventories
Ensuring management of the asset register and asset disposal
Managing site utilities suppliers to ensure that the factory is provided with adequate, timely resources for emergency, accident, disaster or outage situation especially in crisis situation
Undertaking planned maintenance programme with consideration to optimising production
Supporting the integration of the engineering function into the manufacturing with a oneteam mindset
Coordinating section activities through planning with key stakeholders within engineering and across production to ensure objectives are accomplished
Ensuring systems for engineering stores to minimise inventory levels and working capital
Managing and ensuring effective implementation of mechanical engineering and maintenance functional policies, procedures and controls covering all areas of assigned department activity
Ensuring that the productive capability of the plant is optimised and improved for the needs of the business, including the provision and use of utilities (gas, water, electricity, compressed air) while complying with environment legislation
Planning, prioritizing, assigning, supervising, reviewing, and participating in the work of staff responsible for plant maintenance
Providing advisory assistance in regard to equipment and equipment needs and conditions, identifying staff development needs and training the maintenance personnel in plant equipment maintenance and safety methods, procedures, and techniques for maximum productivity
Maintaining all equipment manuals, equipment warranties, and tool inventories
Supervision of installation and commissioning of plant equipment
Maintaining records, preparing reports, and composing correspondence relative to the work
Driving and ensuring full compliance with best manufacturing practices
Ensuring all activities relating to mechanical engineering are fully captured and transacted
Planning for Preventive maintenance of all equipment to confirm the highest performance
Recruiting, managing and motivating staff via coaching, regular appraisal, mentoring, training, leadershipbyexample and setting and monitoring team targets
Any other projects, as assigned to improve business performance
Core Competencies and Traits include:
Excellent leadership skills and people management experience
Strong and effective communicator
Decisive individual with strong judgement
Excellent Project management skills
Excellent problemsolving skills
Highly organized with outstanding prioritization skills
Result oriented and selfdriven individual
Strategic thinker with flexibility to adjust in line with changing circumstances
Education and Experience Levels:
Bachelors’ degree in Engineering or related field
At least 10 years’ experience working in a busy engineering function
At least 5 years’ experience working in the FMCG industry
At least 5 years in an Engineering leadership role
Registered by the Engineering Board of Kenya
Please submit your application including a cover letter and updated cv on email to talent@biofoods.co.ke by 8th January 2022
Apply via :
talent@biofoods.co.ke