Process / Production Support Officer at Holcim Nigeria

Holcim builds progress for people and the planet. As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Holcim is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of its strategy Holcim is becoming a net zero company, with its people and communities at the heart of its success. The company is driving the circular economy as a world leader in recycling to build more with less.

Holcim is the company behind some of the world’s most trusted brands in the building sector including ACC, Aggregate Industries, Ambuja Cement, Disensa, Firestone Building Products, Geocycle, Holcim and Lafarge. Holcim is 70,000 people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Process / Production Support Officer

Job Code: DJOB
Location: Mfamosing, Cross River State
Contract Type: Contract
Function: Cement Manufacturing (jobs in plants / other industrial sites)

Overview

• To support efficiency and optimization of the burning line by working in conjunction with process, quality and maintenance team, and to improve plant performance.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the process performance of the entire plant on a day to day basis and define corrective actions together with maintenance and production.
• Define process optimization actions together with quality, production and maintenance; monitor the actions and the results.
• Define an audit plan and supervise the audits to detect irregularities and find potential improvements.
• Contribute to fuel cost optimization (optimization of lowest fuel cost) by ensuring (optimizing) process condition which allows a maximum utilization of alternative fuel and raw materials.
• Ensure progress in control loop optimization and high-level automation.
• Ensure existence and correctness of procedures.
• Ensure that audits and studies are documented and shared.
• Foster the process awareness within all departments in the plant.
• Promote exchanges between the Processes and Production departments.
• Participation in the plant managers’ network.
• Coordinate actions with the Technical Centre/ CIP/MSGN.
• Define the long term plans, improvement actions and advance initiatives for the whole plant.
• Validate which adjustments and modifications are necessary in process management to optimize the performance and quality of the products.
• Defines working methods (optimization of management means and tools).
• Identify the training and development needs for CCR operators and patrollers
• Conduct effective one –on-one training activities
• Make effective use of available training media for training delivery (CECIL + Produce & Maintain)
• Develop an effective structured on the job training program (OJT)
• Conduct effective group training activities.
• Design and develop training modules.
• Leading role in POM implementation.

Education / Qualifications

• Degree in Chemical Engineering or in General Engineering with Process Engineering as the main subject.
• Very good knowledge of the physic-chemical products, of relevant parameters and standards applicable to cement manufacturing.
• Good knowledge of statistical process control methods and experimental design.
• Good knowledge of project management methods.

Experience:

• 10 years and above in a process role depending on the size and challenges of the position.

Knowledge & Skills
Technical / Functional Skills:

• Level III in process in a complex plant, otherwise level II.
• Level I in quality control.
• Level I in Environment.
• Level I in automation.
• In-depth knowledge of the cement making process.
• General knowledge of physics, chemistry, science of heat and computing.
• Knowledge of the chemical parameters that affect the quality of cement.
• General knowledge of process control tools.
• Knowledge of environmental standards and plant process safety.
• Have an overview of the latest innovations in the cement industry

Behavioral competence:

• Intellectual curiosity and strategic thinking.
• Innovative and Autonomous
• Analytical skills, Objective focus, Rigor.
• Courage and integrity Intellectual humility, Honesty, Respect.

Leadership and managerial abilities:

• Communication skills, Coaching and teaching ability, listening skills, team spirit.
• Adapting to change and creativity and can work in a cross disciplinary way.
• Ability to run teams and work groups.

Language Requirements:

• English.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.