Production Manager at UpEnergy

UpEnergy brings aspirational energy saving products within reach for low-income communities. We create valuable health and environmental outcomes by providing our users with products that improve their lives every day. Our approach combines local, on-the-ground teams leveraging our platform to best serve users, with over a decade of experience building platforms that generate valuable carbon emission reductions and allow us to provide our products to local communities at affordable subsidized prices.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Production Manager

Location: Kano
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Procurement & Supply Chain

The Role

• The Production manger will report directly to the Country Director. UpEnergy distributes clean cookstoves and other energy-saving products throughout the country. As we source products from multiple suppliers and distribute them through over a dozen points of sale, tracking and managing our inventory is essential to our business operations.
• The primary responsibility of the production manager is drive availability of products through Manufacturing.
• This role would also have elements of Warehouse management, Materials Planning, and Quality control.

Key Responsibilities
Production:

• Lead the strategic development of UpEnergy’s in-house production capacity
• Decide on optimal size, location and type of manufacturing facility(ies)
• Establish manufacturing system and production process with a view towards replicability and scalability
• Determine ideal resources, tools and teams required for production facilities of varying sizes
• Build products that are high quality, affordable and consistent at scale.

Sourcing:

• Build a robust and efficient supply chain of inputs required for manufacturing
• Build production capacity and optimize sourcing across various markets by coordinating progress and strategy with UpEnergy’s business development team, commercial team, country teams, as well external manufacturing partners
• Develop and maintain healthy relationships with suppliers of raw materials
• Work alongside product and engineering teams to identify best raw materials available for production in various markets, considering that no two markets may provide exactly the same inputs.

Quality Assurance & Consistency:

• Formalize Quality Assurance Function for in-house production facilities as well as third-party suppliers
• Collaborate with external manufacturing partners to ensure and/or improve their ability to maintain consistent quality, meet production and delivery deadlines, and carry out required checks
• Establish best practices for QA / QC throughout our production facilities
• Work cross-functionally to identify and implement improvements in both in terms of product and production processes.

Operations & Supply Chain:

• Implement systems with country teams for ordering and delivery of product from production facilities to distribution points around our various markets
• Develop and maintain ideal strategy for managing demand from various country operations across our various UpEnergy production sites and partner manufacturers.

Must Have

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree, Preferably in Mechanical Engineering
• 8+ years of production or manufacturing experience, especially with Metals.
• Experience managing production/manufacturing facilities
• Experience coordinating with engineers to improve inputs, design and manufacturing process of products.
• Solid understanding of sourcing raw materials, ideally across developing markets
• Motivated to build a business that improves the lives of customers and the environment
• Strong leadership and team building abilities
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills.
• Experience as a trusted resource as a member of a leadership team
• Willingness to travel to our different markets.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.