Plant Head at Michael Stevens Consulting Limited

Michael Stevens Consulting is a leading financial and management consulting firm in Nigeria. Founded in 1991 & headquartered in Lagos with other offices in three states - Rivers, Ogun and Cross Rivers State.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Plant Head

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Directly Reports to: Managing Director/CEO
Directly Supervises: All Factory Departmental Heads

Job Description

• To plan, organize, coordinate, and control all manufacturing processes for all divisions of the business.

Strategy & Budgets:

• Initiate and propose a strategic plan for factory operations in the Company, defining the critical success factors and ensuring, after approval by the Board, the achievement of the vision/targets by setting and maintaining the correct focus for the organization.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics, and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
• Translate broad objectives to specific goals for the various functional units resulting in an effective and efficient implementation plan for factory operations.
• Ensure preparation of Operations Budget in line with developmental goals to ensure consistency in profitability and growth for the Company.
• Implement and maintain the factory operations strategies to deliver the customer service objectives working functionally with Project Management/Commercial.

Production Planning & Organising:

• Plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers’ expectations.
• Organize workflows to meet specifications and timelines and implement methodology to measure due date delivery performance.
• Evaluate production schedules to plan team structures and development.
• Oversee the pre-production meeting to implement strategies to reduce expenses and increase productivity across all product lines.
• Develop and maintain production metrics for quality, delivery, and safety.

Team Management:

• Build strong rapport with the production team through open communication, promote a positive, safe, productive, and efficient work environment.
• Continually analyze, identify, and set expectations to motivate team members to achieve objectives and goals.

Quality Assurance:

• Ensure that items/products produced by the production team always meet quality standards.
• Monitor products standards at various levels of production and at the point of release so that cost of rework is reduced/eliminated.

Process Improvement:

• Review and recommend appropriate measures to control and minimize waste levels.
• Review production practices and equipment; make proposals for improvement to ensure that they are maximally effective.
• Encourage a culture which strives for growth, continuous improvement, and self-development.

HSE Management:

• Ensure appropriate health and safety procedures are in place and applied rigorously.

Leadership:

• Provide overall guidance and direction to the business, particularly for factory operations, as well as direct reports and project team members.
• Directly Reports to: Managing Director/CEO
• Directly Supervises: All Factory Departmental Heads

Qualifications, experience, and Attributes

• Good First Degree in Engineering or relevant discipline.
• Possession of a higher degree(s), such as M.Sc, MBA, PMP is desirable.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years’ relevant experience with at least seven (7) years in senior managerial capacity in a similar role, preferably in a multinational FMCG environment or wood/furniture company.
• Strong strategic orientation, interpersonal relationship manager.
• Strong operational orientation.

Key Competency Requirements:

• Micro Economic and industry knowledge.
• Good understanding of the manufacturing environment.
• Strategic and creative thinking. Project Management skills; strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills; able to think methodically and analytically.
• Strong organizational and leadership skills.

Bullet Points:

• Cutting list.
• Pre-production meetings.
• Pre-project meeting.
• Lead installation group.
• Instructions on production.
• Planning daily activities and targets for supervisors and all.
• Oversee maintenance Engineer activities.
• Study and review job orders.
• Direct QC on planning and raising of BOQ.
• Site visitation to track installation.
• Assist in cost reductions.
• Supervision of procurement; quality and quantity of materials and other deliverables.
• Maintain job processes.
• Prioritize job according to customers requested and sign documents.
• Negotiate with vendors for materials to be supplied and repairers for machines/plants and generators.
• Communicate with design and others for clarity and confirmation on projects.
• Correction of errors if any.
• Assist with Logistics.
• Help to send memo on shortage material if need arises.
• Have direct contact with MD for discussion on challenges and way forward.

Application Closing Date
30th June, 2024.