Job Title: Factory Manager
Introduction
Our client operating in the tea production sector is looking for a Factory Manager responsible for overseeing all aspects of production. Including planning and forecasting for production, training, and coaching of key staff on company standards, interfacing with operation departments to ensure that location is on target for production goals, production information, tracking and managing employee performance and disciplinary action, and managing all inventory levels to ensure production lines have sufficient resources needed to accomplish production goals.
Qualifications & Experience Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Food Science, or any other related field.
- At least 8 years’ experience in food production & processing or similar role(s).
- Must be able to demonstrate previous performance in a demanding role requiring the ability to make decisions that have a technical and human component in pressure situations.
- Must be able to demonstrate previous performance leading large groups of people and having operated with a high degree of autonomy while managing several competing priorities.
- Understanding of Safety and Environmental systems and their management as well as an understanding of WCM principles and their application in the workplace is desirable.
- Manufacturing strategy development
- Knowledge of product, process, and Quality Assurance
- Product, process, and packaging expertise
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and Team player
Accountabilities
- Factory Operations as per agreed standard and leads manufacturing activities in supply unit to achieve desired service level on time.
- Maintain Safety and Environmental Performance
- Efficiencies and cost control mechanisms and Lead in quality KPIs
- Workplace and cultural change using Leadership Competencies & methodologies.
- Developing and implementing innovative strategies to streamline factory operations.
- Collaborating with quality control managers to establish and execute quality control processes.
- Ensuring that factory machinery is in good working order.
- Analyzing production data to identify and resolve any production issues.
- Preparing production reports and submitting them to key decision-makers.
- Regularly inspecting finished products to determine whether they meet established quality standards.
- Motivating factory workers to continually achieve factory targets.
- Manufacturing Performance management
- Quality assurance of the product and Responsible care
- Ensuring the screening, recruiting, and training of new factory workers to the business standards.
- The role delivers unit targets following the supply chain and category strategies including targets on service, costs, productivity, quality, innovation, and occupational safety health & environment.
- Engage and facilitate the implementation of innovation on the sites, for products, ways of working, service models, and supply chain models.
- Propose, agree on category technology, and implement the necessary capital investment to meet the planned production requirements, safety, environmental and cost targets.
- Ensure that the technical standards of all manufacturing and non-manufacturing fixed assets are maintained. Enable the sourcing Unit operations to achieve a high level of customer service at optimal cost.
- Ensure Working Capital Management Systems are effectively used to deliver inventory targets. ▪ Co-ordinate and direct Quality Management in line with QA systems and GMPs.
- Lead HR policy deployment and implementation on sites, including Management of Employee relations.
- Oversee the implementation of the requirements of Rain Forest Alliance.
Projects
- Keep abreast with all new technology covering tea making, market, packing, maintenance, transport, and energy usage and make proposals for implementation where appropriate.
- Carry out manufacturing trials and implement projects as agreed with the Line manager.
- Collate and document innovative ideas for the factory and capture all improvement proposals from the shop floor.
- Implementation and follow-up on improvement ideas on the shop floor.
Production and Planning
- Coordinate manufacturing process to produce made tea to ensure customer requirements are achieved.
- Implement Good Manufacturing practices in all sections of manufacture in the production shifts.
- Monitor production key performance indicators of the factory; generate daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
- Verify and consolidate daily, weekly, and monthly administrative returns.
- Keep and ensure the accuracy of the production records and weekly and monthly tea returns.
- Communicates upwards/downwards/peers in the factory to ensure a smooth flow of information.
- Act in the absence of the line manager as per Company policies.
- Undertake other responsibilities as may be assigned by the line manager.
- Coordinate implementation of WCM in the factory and ensure documentation of the improvements.
How to Apply:
If you believe you can demonstrate your abilities to meet the relevant criteria for the role above, please submit your CV using this link below
https://qsourcingservtec.applytojob.com/apply/MY0Ot7dGDQ/QSSRFMFACTORY-MANAGER
Note: The deadline for applications is no later than 5:00 pm, May 28th, 2023
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Q-SOURCING SERVTEC IS AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ANY SOLICITATION WILL LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION
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