Miller at Olam International Limited

Olam Nigeria Limited is located in Lagos, Nigeria and is part of the Farm Support Services Industry. Olam Nigeria Limited has 3,000 employees at this location and generates $222.01 million in sales (USD).

With offices and operational units across all geopolitical zones of the Nigerian Federation, Olam has a wide and growing network of farmers, suppliers, wholesalers, local buying agents (LBAs), customers and service providers. Today, these networks encompass approximately 500,000 farmers and have created tens of thousands of jobs in indirect employment.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Miller

Location: Nigeria
Function: MATS
Sub-Function:  MATS

Product Information
Grains:

• Grains is one of the 6 prioritized platforms in Olam The Grains business consists of 4 verticals: Wheat Milling (in sub-Saharan Africa), Origination & Trading (Origination in the Black Sea and Latin America, Destination in the Middle East & North Africa, Prop trading in Wheat/Corn/Soy), Animal Feeds & Proteins (starting in Nigeria, but plan to expand to 4-5 countries in Africa, Asia & MENA by 2020) and Ocean Freight (vessel charter, Prop trading). 
• Our manufacturing facilities in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and Senegal helping these countries to reduce import costs of refined wheat.
• With an unrelenting focus on food safety, innovation and cost efficiencies, we produce a range of quality flours for bread, baguettes, pasta noodles, biscuits, semolina, and confectionery.

Job Description

• Responsible for efficient daily milling activities to assure operations are optimized.
• The primary activities of this position include the operation of the milling process, prioritizing and assigning proactive and reactive milling maintenance, troubleshooting milling issues and maintaining quality product output.
• The role also includes activities like repairing day planning, procuring needed milling materials, controlling spare parts inventory for rolls, sifters, purifiers, and other milling equipment.
• This is a people management position and requires managing hands-on training for new and existing millers, ensuring best practice execution and performing work quality checks.
• A keen understanding of costs and a business acumen to ensure profitability is critical for the position.

Key Deliverables

• To manage an efficient, safe site producing finished products that fulfil the requirements of our customers at least cost/maximum financial benefits.

Strategic Effectiveness

• Ensure all areas operate efficiently within agreed financial budgets.
• Purchase of all materials necessary to maintain efficient production – ensuring availability and cost-effectiveness of the purchase process.
• Handling and packaging of animal feed products and aqua feed-based products
• Control stock levels of both raw materials and finished products. Optimize inventory for efficiency in working capital deployment
• Ensure efficient response to product specifications and volume requirements (in line with forecasts and new product development)
• Maintain and monitor production in respect of output yield/extraction capacity against set targets – exceed the targets
• Continually analyse output for variances and effectively manage negative variance.

Operational Effectiveness

• Implement work environment safety guidelines - ensure the health and safety of all subordinates within company guidelines and current legislation
• Regularly monitor the entire operations. Hold regular health and safety meetings as chairman of the site committee
• Implement agreed on recommendations from the annual contracted audits, reduce audit observations.
• Ensure all functional managers 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 produces minimal dust and noise both internally and externally
• Build a structured site inspection and employee training plan, ensure effective implementation of the same.
• Ensure full employee awareness of safe working practices and their role in maintaining the required standards

Requirements

• Experience: 7-12 years of Work experience with relevant exposure in handling multiple milling lines  
• The candidate should have proven experience in production, milling operations role in flour / feed products, and managed large independent operations 
• Excellent people management skills and should be able to lead a diversified team of different nationalities and skillsets.
• Communicate and interface with all levels of the organization and external agencies / contacts including statutory bodies
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple activities concurrently (Multitasking)

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.