Production Team Lead

Job Purpose

To provide direction, technical guidance and leadership in production to ensure the highest quality products. Lead and embed the “Kilombero way in production” to ensure Kilombero Sugar Company is the best in class sugar producer. Partner with finance to develop production budget and ensure production is managed within budget and achieves cost synergies. Optimize production performance, by holding teams accountable to achieve the highest standards of efficiencies and quality, maximising throughput and sugar recovery at lowest cost. Achieve production targets aligned to the production plan. Lead and manage shift teams effectively.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive rigorous performance management, biased towards rewarding strong performance and compliance with critical behaviours, and including managing consequences where required.
• Contribute to the development of manufacturing plans, goals and KPI’s where required.
• Oversee operations and production planning to ensure efficiency, quality control, budgetary control, service, and cost-effective management of resources.
• Together with the teams, achieve shift, daily, weekly, monthly performance targets against business/operational goals and objectives by ensuring that tasks are prioritised and planned in a logical, systematic and cost effective way to optimise profitability.
• Identify loss/waste/barriers to flow areas and prioritise weekly activities to address these.
• Ensure compliance with group minimum standards and processes for Production, ensuring products are within in-specification across each step of value chain.
• Promote cross-functional and cross production team leadership and engagement towards achievement of agreed business goals
• Ensure laboratory activities on shift operate in accordance to defined best practices to maintain effective process quality assurance.
• Direct artisans in line with reactive and planned maintenance activities during the shift.
• Adopt and embed agreed best practices, frameworks and minimum standards for all aspects of sugar recovery.
• Establish and lead a problem-solving approach across the production process to identify and address problems and improvement opportunities.
• Develop capability on the job and hold supervisors accountable for performance.
• Promote and adhere to Kilombero procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to Safety, Healthy, Environment, Risk and Quality (SHERQ), Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC).

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Mechanical/Chemical and Process Engineering or equivalent qualification from a recognized Institution.
• 3+ years in heavy Manufacturing (production and/or maintenance), with at least 2 years in sugar production.
• Computer literacy.
• Registered by Engineering Registration Board as a professional Engineer is an added advantage.
• Burning desire to succeed in a high-performance environment.

Terms of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on a permanent contract.

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, please apply for the position on or before 16th October 2023. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Kilombero Sugar Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people with disability are highly encouraged to apply.