Plant Manager (m/f) at Loesche Energy Systems Limited

Loesche Energy Systems Limited is an innovative family-owned machinery and plant engineering company operating worldwide. Loesche Nigeria Ltd. (LNG) was established in 2012 and is based in Lagos.

Loesche Nigeria’s scope of work will include the following activities:

• Preparation and supervision of technical repairs, modifications and upgrades
• Audit of cement plants and grinding terminals
• Operations of grinding terminals and complete cement plants
• Preventive maintenance and planning
• Management of required spare parts
• Recruitment, management and training of employees
• Management of operational stability and improvement-process, product quality, performance
• Ensuring health & safety and environmental regulations

Loesche Nigeria's mission statement is to become a competence carrier for the Nigerian cement industry. It will ultimately be a process and operation-oriented subsidiary for cement plants and grinding technologies. Loesche Nigeria takes over complete responsibility of daily production businesses and ensure long-term added value for our customers through highly capable, efficient, and responsible plant management.

Therefore, LNG is looking to fill following vacancy in Nigeria:

Job Title: Plant Manager (m/f)

Keyword: 10LN_04032014
Location: Lagos

Role & Responsibility:

• Lead all production related aspects at the plant site including safety, environment, operations, performance, quality, maintenance, costs, human resources, plant image and community relations
• Ensure optimal operation and maintenance of the assigned grinding terminals or cement plants for achieving the agreed targets
• In charge of the achievement of key performance indicators in the field of safety, productivity and cost related agreed targets for the overall plants’ performance
• Ensure a successful and efficient operation of the customer’s plant
• Responsible for the continuous increase of productivity and profitability
• Control the plant’s performance and output
• Provide the necessary guidance to the Managers to carry out the required production processes
• Coordinate the production requirements to maximize plant efficiency and availability
• Cost controlling to meet budgets and cost savings
• Review of cost reports to locate excessive expenses and decision making of necessary corrective actions
• Ensure a high-end operation and maintenance of the assigned plant
• Take care of technical audits and their conclusions
• Approve spare parts requests and their specifications
• Solve all technical requests from customers
• Prepare short and long range development plans for plant improvement
• Assurance of an environmental compliance and clean plant operations
• Safeguard Human resources by adherence to Health & Safety regulations
• Manage the utilization of manpower, mobile equipment, fixed assets and contractors
• Guide plant staff by setting clear performance objectives, providing regular feedback and providing development through training
• Control and guide the daily work
• Ensure a well-organised communication of decisions and current developments
• Implement standardized operating procedures (SOPs), reporting functions, and work instructions for optimising the process chains
• Carry out annual performance reviews of employees
• Continuous reporting to the Technical Director in Dubai
• Comply with all relevant company and statutory environmental, health and safety procedures and guidelines

Requirements:

• University degree in process or mechanical engineering
• Several years’ experience in the cement industry as Plant Manager
• Profound experience in leading and guiding Managers at production plants
• Sound knowledge of the cement production process including cement chemistry and cement microscopy
• Strong knowledge of modern maintenance management, technologies, and methods
• Outstanding knowledge of plant process optimizations
• Very good understanding of safety and environmental regulations
• Strategic, organisation and planning skills
• Confident manner in dealing with customers and plant staff
• Profound knowledge in financial controlling and contract management
• Sound communication skills, and outstanding ability to work in a team
• Very good MS-Office and SAP knowledge
• Business-fluent spoken and written English
• Further languages skills would be an advantage
• Willingness to travel to various locations worldwide for an extended period of time

Application Closing Date
7th April, 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should
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