General Manager, Manufacturing SG 2 at SonySugar Limited

Reporting to the Managing Director, the position will be responsible for planning, programming, implementing and controlling activities for production of sugar in the factory.
Specific responsibilities will include:-

• Formulating and implementing strategies on efficient sugarcane milling and sugar production;
• Formulating, documenting and reviewing process control procedures and work instructions required in sugar processing;
• iEnsuring receipt and storage of sugarcane as it is weighed in from the farms;
• Ensuring preparation of sugarcane for juice extraction;
• Ensuring extraction of sugarcane juice to recover the sugar;
• Ensuring processing of sugarcane juice into sugar crystals;
• Coordinating bagging /packaging of sugar in the required stock-keeping units and deliver to warehouse;
• Ensuring abstraction and treatment of water for industrial and domestic use;
• Ensuring sugar produced meets the relevant national and international standards;
• Ensuring management of all the factory effluents/discharges in order to meet regulatory requirements;
• Ensuring generation of steam for power and heat requirements of the factory;
• Ensuring generation and distribution of electricity required for the factory;
• Ensuring operation and maintenance of electricity distribution and supply infrastructure within the company ;
• Ensuring maintenance, service and repair of electrical machines, switchgears and electrical infrastructure within the factory, offices, institutions and company residential estates;
• Overseeing maintenance, service and repair instrumentation and control equipment throughout the factory; 
• Ensuring maintenance, service and repair radio communications infrastructure within the company;
• Ensuring statutory requirements for radio communications are met;
• Ensuring maintenance, service, repair and calibration of all the weighbridges for both cane, products and miscellaneous items;
• Ensuring maintenance, service, repair and calibration/programing of all control systems;
• Ensuring compliance with statutory calibration and certification of all measuring equipment (weighbridges, weigh scales, instrumentation laboratory testers, etc.);
• Ensuring preparation of equipment specifications for electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and control projects;
• Coordinating installation and commissioning of new factory equipment;
• Ensuring maintenance, service and repair of all material handling equipment, power transmission systems, pumps, pipes & fittings, etc;
• Ensuring maintenance and repair of refractory and insulation installations throughout the factory;
• Coordinating all civil works related to new equipment installations within the factory;
• Coordinating all building services and repairs of factory building, offices, institutions and residences;
• Coordinating development of scopes of works for all maintenance works to be contracted out;
• Coordinate supervision of all contracted out maintenance works and services;

Job Specification/Requirement:

• Masters in Engineering, Science, Business Administration/Management or equivalent from a recognized institution;
• Bachelors/ Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Chemical), Chemistry, Food Science/Technology or equivalent from a recognized institution;
• At least fifteen (15) years’ relevant work experience five (5) of which must be at senior management level.
• Leadership course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognized Institution;
• Membership to professional Body where applicable.
• Computer Proficiency.
• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six (6) of the Constitution.