General Manager - Production at Sanergy

About the role

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