Senior Technical Architect at a Leading Furniture Manufacturing Company - Alan & Grant

Alan & Grant - Our client is a leading furniture manufacturing company in Nigeria.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Technical Architect

Location: Otta, Ogun
Job type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The role is mainly to ensure the right processes and practices across factory operational activities with specific duties in driving the technical details of the operation, improving production performance and securing compliance.
• The job holder is expected to mentor operations team members, find ways to increase the quality of customer service and implement best practices across all levels.
• He is responsible for contributing to and carrying out production strategy decisions and ensures interpersonal relationships with other internal clients whose output will determine the flow of activities on the factory floor such as; Project teams, design technical, business development team and corporate service department. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Oversee and ensure quality output from the production with quality control Officer by developing a standard quality control process and ensuring factory employee work to establish standards
• Attend to all quality issues discovered within the factory or reported from site/clients and ensure timely solutions.
• Ensure quality control process and documents are put to use and everybody complies with the usage to avoid repetition on quality issues.
• Closely monitors the key production metrics to improve productivity in line with client demand on the floor.
• Interpret and guide the operation teams on technical drawing interpretation and application after design technical generated the document.
• Generate MRO using the cutting list and technical details for procurement of materials for production activities.
• Review the cutting list generated by the design team and critics all necessary metrics before being shown to Operation Mgr and released to production Foreman for production activities.
• Regularly improve production techniques and approaches for effectiveness and profitability.
• Identify and address dips in production before they become major issues.
• Daily production reports preparation based on their job analysis and review for project & Business development team.
• Weekly presentation of these production reports to Operation Mgr & other decision makers for strategic review and decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Production Engineering, Furniture Design or related field. 
• Proven work experience in Furniture Manufacturing or similar production environment 
• Strong understanding of woodworking tools, machinery, materials and production processes.
• Excellent leadership ability, communication skills, outstanding organizational skills.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications, cutting list & MRO preparation.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.