General Manager – Production
Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
Date Posted | October 21, 2022 |
Category |
Management
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Job Type |
Full-time
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Currency | KES |
Description
Sanergy is fast expanding its operations and looking for a General Manager - Production to oversee manufacturing and maintenance operations across Sanergy’s production facilities in Kenya.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Accountable for the performance of all production facilities in Kenya. Develop and implement systems to ensure that production volume, cost, quality and ESH targets are met.
- Collaborate with the planning, quality, health, safety, environment, maintenance, financial analysis and continuous improvement teams to drive production process optimization.
- Oversee the maintenance function to reduce the frequency and impact of breakdowns. Provide direction to implement best in class maintenance practices to improve MTTR and MTBF.
- Own and be accountable for the operational budget. Coach Factory Managers and Maintenance Managers under you to conduct sound resource planning and deployment so as to maximize resource utilization.
- Collaborate with the talent team to set up and implement systems for people management, performance management and learning and development.
- Coach managers across production and maintenance on effective approaches to project management. Oversee implementation of projects by managers to achieve the required outcomes on time.
- Coach managers across production on continuous improvement methodologies, preferably around Lean Thinking, Six Sigma or Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in an Engineering related field.
- At least 5 years experience in manufacturing operations.
- At least 3 years experience in a management role manufacturing.
- Demonstrable track record in implementing cost, quality and delivery improvement projects in operations.
- Working knowledge of project management approaches.
- Working knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies, preferably at least one of Lean Thinking, Six Sigma or Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
- Working knowledge of approaches to cost modelling and analysis.
- A general understanding of statistical process control.
- Coachable – a desire to learn, constantly improve, and act on feedback