Productions Supervisor - Thika at Brites Management

Job Summary:

• Our client a food manufacturing company is looking to hire a Production supervisor to plan, organize and control production in the company to ensure that goods are produced efficiently, on time, within budget and to the best standards.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Plan a production schedule for the job
• Supervise the factory team
• Recruit and train casuals
• Implement and control the production schedule
• Review and adjust the schedule where needed
• Determine the human resources required
• Determine the material resources required
• Manage human and material resources to meet production targets
• Make decisions about equipment use, maintenance, modification and procurement
• Work out and implement standard operating procedures for production operations
• Ensure that standard operating procedures are adhered to
• Ensure implementation and adherence to health and safety procedures
• Set product quality standards
• Monitor quality standards of products
• Implement and enforce quality control and tracking programs to meet quality objectives
• Analyze production and quality control to detect and correct problems
• Determine and implement improvements to the production process
• Prepare and maintain production reports
• Monitor and review the performance of staff and organize necessary interventions for improvement
• Estimate production costs and work to reduce production cost
• Set production budgets

Key Requirements

• BSC food science and Technology.
• Computer Literate- MS office.
• Training on HACCP/ISO standards (ISO 9001:2015 & FSSC 22000:2018)
• At least 2yrs of progressive working experience with FMCG firm.
• Supervisory experience in a busy organization.
• Honesty and demonstrates a high degree of integrity
• Tea player and diversity of tasks.