Olam Agri is a market-leading, differentiated food, feed, and fiber agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities, and deep understanding of market needs built over 33 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, animal feed & protein, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, cotton, wood products, rubber and commodity financial services.
Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with more than 40 million MT in volume traded annually. Focused on transforming food, feed and fiber for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enabling farming communities to prosper sustainably, and strive for a food-secure future.
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
Manufacturing:
- Maximize milling efficiency in the plant daily by focusing on adjustment and operation of the mill.
- Execute production planning which is given by Head/Chief miller.
- Maintain extraction as given by the management.
- Maintain quality as per parameter.
- Troubleshoot equipment, optimize the mill and solve flow problems.
- Document production reports and shift reports including process and maintenance issues.
- Report all operational downtimes to the Head/Chief Miller.
Strategic Effectiveness
Hygiene and Improvement:
- Perform and monitor all sanitations duties as assigned and ensure hygiene personnel on shift perform assigned cleaning duties.
- Ensure full compliance with all organization, regulatory, statutory, safety rules, GMP, QMS, FSMS, 5S requirement.
- Ensure shop floor area is free of weevils and monitor frequent cleaning of workstations and eliminate all dark spots in the system.
- Ensures all cleaning schedules and compliance records, 100%.
- Compliance ratings of all Hygiene, GMP, OHS, EMS, and 5S audits and requirements.
Operational Effectiveness
Safety:
- ZERO Accidents (LTA)
- 250mg max particulate discharge to atmosphere
- Compliance to Daily Pep talk, workplace inspection and Gemba work.
- Minimum of 20 safety reports monthly.
Key Deliverables
Cost:
- Reduce PM waste to a minimum of 0.5% monthly
- Control and minimize operational and overhead cost within the section.
- Departmental budgeting and accountability by identifying, managing and prioritizing mill operations capital project portfolio.
Organizational Effectiveness:
- Vendor management, contracts and cost control for routine services like cleaning, refuse disposal, gardening, and other routine services
- Discuss the costs and performance with external contractors to ensure cheap yet quality service, explore innovative approaches to improve delivery.
- Ensure perimeter and yard areas are well maintained, build an aesthetically pleasing workplace
- Maintain and administer all personnel records and systems relating to employees (excluding records of sickness, absenteeism and holidays, recorded in the general office)
- Coordinate with managers to ensure the safekeeping of all company agreements and financial instruments
- Encourage excellent communication across plant workplace through team briefing, formal and informal discussions. Use multi-channel communication for better outcomes.
- Coordinate with managers to identify personnel training needs. Actively promote training and personal development on site
- Exhibit a flexible approach to working, explore new possibilities.
- Performance of other management tasks may be required for the wellbeing and advancement of the business.
Requirements
- B.Sc. Degree in Engineering/Food Science.
- Minimum of 4 years’ hands-on experience in wheat milling.
- 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)
- Creativity/ Self Initiative, Teamwork, Communications Skills and Leadership.
- NABIMS, Diploma in Milling from a recognized Milling School.