Plant Manager at Saro Agrosciences Limited

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.