Harvest Foreman at Komaza Kenya

About this role

As a Harvest Foreman for Komaza, you will join a fast-growing organization that is redefining forestry in Africa. By managing your team and resources effectively, you will be a key member of our operations team and driver of quality and continuous improvement for our farmers. This role is fast-paced and challenging, requiring a hard work, multi-tasking, scrappiness and excellent communications skills.

Responsibilities for the Harvest Foreman Job

• Lead by example: you must understand and fully participate in all aspects of the harvesting process, doing whatever it takes to get the job done

• Support operations across the entire harvesting and processing value chain: inventory, felling, transport, storage and processing

• Build a harvesting work plan for all upcoming harvest activities to ensure precise timing and resource scheduling for you and your team

• Coordinate and motivate in-field harvesting team of 8+ people, including Chainsaw Operator, Harvest Data Clerk, Extractors and Casuals

• Quality Control: Closely manage concurrent activities on a single farm at a given time. Ensure work is being performed according to company procedure and to the quality standards required

• Continuous Improvement: Be able to identify and suggest solutions to inefficiency in the harvest process in order to constantly increase productivity

• Maintain company communication via phone and email, attend meetings punctually and as a participant

Harvest Foreman Job Qualifications

• 5 years’ relevant work experience, ideally 2 years supervising a field-based team.

• Proven experiencing managing a field-based team of at least 8 people, including daily work planning, coordination of tasks, efficient & responsible resource management, and performance management

• Form 4 leavers certificate

• Passion for Komaza’s mission to lift rural farmers out of poverty through the rapid scaling of our microforestry model

• Strong familiarity with the communities where we plant; you have lived or worked in rural low-income communities

• Supreme organisational, critical thinking, and communications skills with impeccable spoken and written English

• Flexible and scrappy with the drive to do whatever necessary to get the job done

• Self-directed and intellectually curious – you know how and when to seek feedback in the pursuit of continuous improvement

• Growth-obsessed with a strong desire for personal development

• A collaborative problem solver who seeks the opinions of other teammates and departments in the development of creative and sustainable systems