Head of Technical Services at NFT Consult

Job Summary

The ideal Candidate shall have:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering field- Mechanical/Electronics/Mechatronics/Instrumentation/Automation Engineering
• Minimum 7years preferably in the Pharmaceutical industry.

Responsibilities

Description for the role, The Head of Technical Services :

• is responsible for the optimization of plant availability with regard to quality, cost-effectiveness, and adherence to schedules, and for the realization of technical projects;
• is responsible for the leadership of employees who are assigned to him under disciplinary and technical aspects according to the organizational chart. The leadership guidelines constitute the basis of the cooperation;
• together with the employees assigned to him, he plans and organizes and supports them in achieving targets and in the processing of tasks;
• is in charge of the implementation of compensation arrangements and single personnel measures following prior discussions and agreement with supervisor positions and Human Resources;
• ensures the qualification and competence of employees and promotes their further development (personnel development);
• takes personnel measures in agreement with Human Resources by complying with the regulations of labor legislation, social law and collective bargaining, especially the Works Council Constitution Act Kenya Labour Laws
• Set-up and continued further development of the Department “Technical Services / Engineering” and its employees;
• Continuous process optimization (machines/plant, production, plant logistics, services) for ensuring and supporting plant/machine availability

The Major duties and competencies:      

General:

• Ensuring compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) with the relevant national and international regulations governing production
• Directly informing the superior in case of exceptional deviations (quality, time, costs)
• Ensuring Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) requirements at workstation at all times.

Resource Management:

• Ensuring availability of adequate qualified, trained and competent personnel in the Maintenance departmen
• Leadership and further development of the employees of the Technical Services Department according to GMP and legal requirements.
• Appraise the performance of employees s/he is in charge of and establish feedback processes.
• Ensuring and optimizing the technical and qualitative availability of machines, facilities, rooms, media, and systems.

Technical Service and Maintenance and Repair:

• Technical on-site maintenance servicing of all production, logistics, and safes/strongbox systems
• Ensuring and optimizing the technical and qualitative availability of machines, facilities, rooms, media, and systems.
• Projecting, change management and ensuring and optimizing control systems and the IT infrastructure in the plant.
• Initiating, leading, supporting and implementing optimization projects (quality, time, costs)
• Organizing the technical department for the further development and provision of service functions as well as realizing technical projects.
• Occasional technological counseling of other B. Braun sites and supporting them through the transfer of know-how.
• Planning, coordinating, implementing, maintaining and documenting of the inspection, measuring and test equipment management.
• Planning, coordinating, implementing, monitoring, updating and documenting of maintenance and repair activities (preventive, predictive, unplanned)
• Ensuring smooth processes and works at interfaces in the routine as well as with stakeholders.
• Assessing technical issues in accordance with relevant framework requirements.
• Ensuring optimal spare part and expendable part availability.
• Leading and coordinating the works during company holidays

Projects:

• Planning, constructing and commissioning of pharmaceutical production facilities and production facility equipment for our production plant.
• Project planning in accordance with applicable national and international norms, rules and regulations as amended from time to time.
• Holistic management of investments projects for the manufacture of Sterile Products.
• Standardizing,  maintaining and safeguarding of the available specific technological know-how in our production plant.
• Maintaining contacts with suppliers.
• Active participation in the qualification of suppliers
• Leading of project staff.

Obligations

• Ensuring/ observing the “Code of Conduct” compliance regulations.
• In agreement with the supervisor, ensuring/ observing the organizational guidelines which are of relevance to the function and the scope of duties.
• Ensuring/Observing the operational and legal working time regulations
• The job holder shall see to it that he/she, in the context of his function and area of responsibility, can be easily reached externally and internally, i.e. by customers and employees. This means that he/she in case of his/her absence has to make sure to be substituted and that available means of communication shall be applied accordingly.