RICE MILL OPERATION MANAGER
This is an exciting leadership opportunity to Head a new and fast rising structured business unit, towards the goal of achieving a world class food manufacturing standard and operational excellence. The job will involve the development and implementation of medium and long term growth strategies, strong operational processes and mechanism for sustained performance.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITY.
• Must be conversant with production operations in food industry.
• Will do the production calculations, to determine the percentage output from input per shift.
• Should carry out the day to day budgeting activities of the plant.
• Provide leadership to team in achieving key performance result, including company objectives for financial profitability, manufacturing variances, safety, quality, sustainability and cost center budget.
• Develop methods to monitor and measure department activity to identify areas of success and areas of opportunity in order to control production efficiency, manufacturing variances, material waste, labor expenses and other indicators of profitability.
• Coordinate all manufacturing department to ensure volume and quality requirements are met.
• Responsible for the department staffing strategy, skill and development of the staff, performance management and employee morale. Provide staffs with the information, training, direction, guidance and resources necessary to accomplish established individual, department and company objectives. Continuously coach for development and monitor progress and result.
• Participate in the development and implementation of new milling and packaging processes, products and systems by providing information, ideas and recommendations based on knowledge and experience in production.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Lead the coordination of activities across the manufacturing, quality, safety and maintenance functions so that issues are addressed as they arise and to ensure the success of achievement of facility objectives in all areas.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety standards.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITY
• Demonstrate ability to lead a large organization to deliver business needs.
• Demonstrate ability to be decisive, proactive and strategic in decision making while role modeling balance for other strong technical troubleshooting skills are important.
• In-depth knowledge of milling operations.
• Proven ability to develop, implement and sustain new processes and procedures.
• Ability to work well under pressure. Must be able to prioritize work in a high demand work environment.
• Ability to meet multiple and sometimes competing deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries and with diverse teams within manufacturing environment. Must be a team player.
• Ability to work flexible shifts when needed is a must.
• High level of integrity, honesty and confidentiality.
• Must be a computer literate and medically fit.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
• Masters degree in engineering, or food science.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years experience in rice milling and other milling operations.

Interested candidates should send applications to; justapplynow@gmail.com

Application closes : 10th of March 2017

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