Saroafrica International Limited is an indigenous private sector player with 3 decades of experience in Nigeria. Saroafrica has five Subsidiaries (Saro Agrosciences, Saro Lifecare, Saro Agro-Allied, Gossy Warm Spring and Saro Oil Palm) and two Joint Ventures (AgriseedCo and Green Hills Agricultural Products). Saroafrica is set to become a leading consumer, manufacturing, FMCG and integrated agricultural value chain group. In pursuit of this ambition Saroafrica is making significant investment in a Palm Plantation and Cassava to Ethanol Plant. This role is expected to be for the Saro Agrosciences.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Plant Manager
Location: Ogun
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Responsibilities
Productivity:
- Lead the plant manufacturing operations with a direct oversight responsibility for herbicide formulation.
- Drives the manufacturing strategy of the business. Perform Short, Mid & Long-term capacity planning etc- to ensure seamless execution.
- Engages the sales, planning and market facing team to be able to deliver the right products that serves the customer needs.
- Ensure Finished goods (FG) availability to support sales ambition (Zero stock out situation).
- Supervise daily factory operations cutting across Material receipts, core production, engineering, quality, warehousing, and distribution.
- Ensure raw & packaging material planning is done so production is not impacted.
- Good knowledge of herbicide formulation process and able to cascade to the team
- Developing skill sets of team members, onboarding plans, operator trainings (both internal & external interventions as required) etc.
- Liaise with relevant regulatory bodies
Efficiency:
- Engages with the Factory Engineers and other technical support team to deliver the right level of support
- Drives efficiency in manufacturing by working with engineers/ technical operators to optimize machine’s uptime with minimal breakdown.
- Ensure the machine Overall Equipment Efficiencies is monitored and improved.
- Identify areas of manufacturing Wastage and drive them down.
Quality:
- Responsible to ensure that product quality defects are tracked, monitored, and reduced.
- Ensure that manufacturing related market complaints are tracked and driven down to near zero as much as possible.
- Ensure that system and analytical processes, documentation, testing are done, and documents kept.
- Ensure a robust cGMP, and relevant ISO certification are done, and team are abreast with current manufacturing standards.
- Drives Inbound, In processing and outbound manufacturing quality.
Health, Safety & Environment:
- Drive Safety of People, processes, Equipment, and facility.
- Ensure Zero loss time accident or fatality on site (through implementing relevant safety controls and culture).
- Ensure Zero effluent discharge to municipal/ environment.
- Drive cleanliness and ensures the well-being of every worker in the facility.
- Assume strategic leadership of entire manufacturing function of the Company
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of Second class upper in Engineering / Technical or Chemical processing related field
- 7-15 Years of relevant Formulation/ herbicide Processing or manufacturing environment.
- Age Requirement: 35-45 years old
Application Closing Date
25th March, 2022.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: job@saroafrica.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.