Plant Manager at Ascentech Services Limited

Ascentech Services Limited is a full-fledged Human Resource Solution Provider incorporated in 2013 with its Head Office in Lagos, Nigeria. We are committed to forging long-term partnerships with our clients by creating and delivering robust and flexible services that address the changing needs of their business.

We are recruiting on behalf of our client to fill the position below:

Job Title: Plant Manager

Location: Ogun
Employment Type: Full-time

Description 

• We are seeking a Plant Manager to oversee the daily operations and activities on the production floor to ensure the optimization of resources and ensure all instituted production policies and procedures are followed.
• This person not only drives production operations, but is critical to the development and maintenance of all resources to achieve company’s goals.
• Overall, the plant manager is responsible for ensuring that the manufacturing or production facility is operating efficiently, safely, and in compliance with regulations, while also meeting production goals and delivering high-quality products.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Responsible for production output, and product quality.
• Plan, organized, directed and run optimum day-to-day production schedules and workflows to ensure maximum efficiency, and productivity and exceed the company’s established production expectation.
• Oversee the efficiency of all assets in the factory (machine and human), to ensure the factory consistently runs efficiently, quickly, safely, and smoothly.
• Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining quality standards
• Allocate both human and material resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
• Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus.
• Monitor production operations and implement corrective action.
• Develop and maintain a culture of trust, efficiency, diligence, shared purpose with the production workforce.
• Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime.
• Develop and commit to factory safety procedures and ensure compliance across board.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
• Address employees’ issues or grievances and administer collective bargaining agreements.
• Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts.
• Design and implement production and factory processes.
• Other duties as reasonably assigned

Qualifications

• University Degree preferably in Business Management, or Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum 7 years experience working in a plant/factory of similar operations.
• A Minimum of 6 years experience as a plant/factory manager.
• Certifications in Business Management

Qualities:

• Demonstrates professional ethics and integrity
• Team player
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritise own workload
• Problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage conflicting work demands
• Demonstrable attention to detail
• Able to work under pressure and meet short deadlines
• Must be very hands-on with a highly proactive and positive ‘can do’ attitude.

Application Closing Date
19th December, 2023.