Plant Manager - Grains at Olam Nigeria Limited - Delta

Olam International is a leading agri-business operating from seed to shelf in 65 countries, supplying food and industrial raw materials to over 13,600 customers worldwide. Our team of 23,000 employees has built a leadership position in many businesses including cocoa, coffee, cashew, rice and cotton.

Olam Nigeria Limited is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Plant Manager - Grains
Reference: Plant Management/Grains/Warri

Location / Region: Warri, Nigeria
Sector: Manufacturing
Type: Permanent

Purpose:
Lead the production and technical operations and liaise with other departments to ensure support to production activities and adherence to Quality, Safety, Environment, Health and commercial norms. To ensure delivery of right quality and quantity of goods as per the laid out plan, at an optimal cost.

Key Result Areas:

• Quality and consistency of maintenance.
• Process reliability and performance.
• Maintaining Statutory / Insurance Registers for Key Equipment.
• Seek continuous process and operational improvement.
• Effective management of maintenance budgets.
• Cost control (notably labour, energy, maintenance).
• Site Condition.
• Health and Safety.
• Direct management and motivation of Engineering Team.

Responsibilities:
Employees:

• Defining and agreeing job responsibilities with all employees. Setting targets and monitoring performance (formally and informally) of all responsible personnel.
• Maintain the welfare and morale of employees.
• Enforce discipline and effect dismissals as necessary within the guidelines of the company disciplinary procedure and employment legislation.
• Selection and appointment of new employees.

Processing Unit:

• Ensure all processes and buildings are maintained effectively within agreed financial budgets. This will include the use of a preventative maintenance scheme to ensure minimum down times on any process.
• Purchase of all materials necessary to maintain efficient process maintenance.
• Control stock levels of spare parts.
• Maintain and monitor processes in respect of breakdown performance output yield / extraction capacity against set targets. React to variances.

Hygiene, Health and Safety:

• Ensure the Health and Safety of all subordinates within Company guidelines and current legislation.
• Ensure all functional management are aware of the correct codes of practice, both statutory and advisory, that govern accepted standards of safe operation at all premises. Ensure production plant causes the minimum of dust and noise both internally and externally.
• By regular site inspection and training, ensure full employee awareness of safe working practices and their role in maintaining the required standards.
• Ensure hygiene standards in all areas are maintained to the highest standards at a minimum above those required by BRC.
• Ensure absolute product safety through careful management of all process lines.

Financial:

• Ensure that all stocks are maintained at minimum levels. (This includes wheat and breakdown spares).
• Contribute to the forming of operating budgets.
• Raise capital expenditure and special maintenance forms for projects. Seek justification for each project. Manage these projects to budget and time.
• Properly control departmental overhead expenditure and be able to analyse and report variances.
• Authorise all expenditure by employees.
• Track energy consumption and report costs monthly.

General:

• Manage external contractors in a cost effective manner – seek to challenge their costs and performance to ensure cost effective yet quality service.
• Through managers, maintain and administer all personnel records and systems relating to employees (excluding records of sickness, absenteeism and holidays, recorded in the General Office).
• Through respective managers, ensure the safe keeping of all company agreements, financial instruments etc.
• To encourage good communication through the plant workplace, through Team Briefing, formal and informal discussions.
• Through managers identify personnel training needs. Actively promote training and personal development on site (Costs to be controlled within agreed budgets).
• All managers are expected to exhibit a flexible approach to working and the performance of other management tasks may be required for the well-being and advancement of the business.

Application Closing Date
Not Stated

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