Job Vacancies at BURN Manufacturing

Location: Ruiru

• To Train the tool maintenance team and supervise all their operations.
• To Train and offer leadership on HASS as may be requested.
• To carry out all sheet metal tool maintenance operations.
• To supervise and to carry out the machining and the assembly processes of all new in-house tools, jigs and fixtures.
• Take a supervisory role in testing and foreseeing the initial production of all new in-house tools.
• To help in plant maintenance when as required.
• Carry out machining operation:
• Carry out all standardised preventive maintenance plans for machines.
• To help in planning and to carry out the assigned machining jobs.
• Generate the required tool paths, and G-Code machining programs to perfectly machine any required work piece.
• To run the machine as per the SOP’s.
• To document and report the machining tasks to the direct manager.
• To help in preparing all spare parts and consumables lists required for the machine.
• To help in machine errors troubleshooting.
• Train technicians on using the machine when needed.
• To machine, to build and to operate all soft tools and to produce the required samples out of it as per the need of the Engineering and the NPD teams.
• Ensure a safe and organized shop workspace.
• Always act as a positive representative of the company and consider environmental implications in the factory.

Degree qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Associate’s Degree
• Engineer’s Degree

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Roles and responsibilities

• Design, analysis, and costing of the required sheet metal soft and production tools.
• Work closely with the machinists to ensure successful machining, and cutting operations for all the tool parts.
• Carry out tools building/assembly activities.
• Helping in managing the tooling workshop’s materials and hardware warehouse.
• Work closely with the New Product Development teams to ensure design for manufacturability.
• Carry out all assigned tasks in outsourced tools purchases and machining projects.
• Help in training tooling technicians and machinists on the best practices in sheet metal tooling design, machining, and building and maintenance activities.
• Participate in root cause analysis sessions for tools breakdowns.
• Help in achieving efficient utilization of the workshop’s machine tools.
• Ensure conformity with the company’s SOPs, and help improving the tooling workshop procedures.

Degree qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
• Master of Engineering (MEng)
• Engineer’s Degree

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About the Role

BURN is looking for a Head of Engineering & Technology whose overall responsibility will be to bring new Electric cooking products through the product development process and launch them into the factory, including design, testing, engineering, process development, and developing/launching new production lines.

 Roles and Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for launching new electric cooking products in the factory, including timelines, budgets, and risk analysis in addition to technical aspects.
• Detailed design of new products, including process development, equipment selection, design for manufacturability, durability testing, material selection, etc.
• Design and produce production, assembly, and QC tooling as well as custom factory equipment.
• Oversee initial production of new products.
• Team management of engineers, testing lab, and workshop. Work closely with designers, market research, factory management, quality control.
• Develop SOP’s, WI, specs, tolerances, QA processes and procedures.
• Create and adhere to budgets and timelines.
• Support the factory, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, equipment startup, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the development of new production processes and related documentation.
• Manage a team of electrical, firmware and software engineers for internal and outsourced development.

Skills and Experience

• We expect 6-10 years of relevant experience and experience leading consumer product development in African markets is highly desired.
• You are a strong communicator, have always the overview over all moving pieces in your team. You perceive fast moving targets and changing priorities as a fun exercise, as your proactivity usually makes you faster than them. 
• You build strong, fact driven decision making materials with your teams. You have tremendous experience in managing divers’ teams that might span different time zones.
• You are a product person; a people’s person and you know how to set priorities and coordinate with all stakeholders within and outside of the company. 
• You are not shy to ask questions and are always striving to deliver the best results, considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.  

Degree qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

We offer a role with significant responsibility, compensation including benefits matching the level of the candidate and an opportunity to have a needle moving impact on human lives and the environment across Africa. 

Compensation is commensurate with experience

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BURN is looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Manufacturing Engineering Technician to support the manufacturing processes in implementing improvements in production and output. You must be highly competent in maintenance, fixtures, gathering of data in manual assembly operations. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of fixtures and Jigs for assembly lines.
• Process Flows.
• Time studies, models used by ERP for capacity calculations.
• Will work closely with Maintenance, ensuring production lines are well maintained, and to the latest standards.
• Continuous Improvement action reducing costs.
• Work instructions.
• May need to work multiple (non-daytime) shifts. Will be the engineering representative on off shifts. 

 Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience supporting manufacturing organizations – preferable in manual assembly operations. 
• Must have analytical and problem-solving skills (hands-on preferred). 
• Must be able to manage large sets of spreadsheet data related to production times, and manufacturing processes. 
• Must be able to visually and in written format, present manufacturing information to the production line, and support the engineering team in cost reduction efforts.

Degree qualifications

• Engineer’s Degree

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About the Role

The Product Manager Electric cooking, position presents an exciting opportunity to roll out an innovative new cooking product into the market. This role will work in collaboration with the Head of Product and play an active role in all product-related matters. This includes, but is not limited to product innovation, product design, product development, and project management.

BURN has been developing, testing, and bringing to market new cooking products for 10+ years in Kenya. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a growing organization and contribute to a fast-moving company committed to improving economic, environmental, and social outcomes in East Africa.

We offer a role with significant responsibility:

Specific roles and responsibilities may change as the position, and the company, and the product, evolve. This is a flexible and demanding post with numerous associated responsibilities. The key areas identified are:

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with market research department to understand user needs, define product vision, and advocate for the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle.
• Use information from customers provided by market research ensure products developed incorporate these ideas.
• Manage the product to achieve goals and achieve planned launch timelines.
• Work closely with the engineering team during the development cycle to make judgment calls as engineering constraints arise.
• Manage supplier communication contracting and integration of results into the existing system and team.
• Improve the currently available solutions from a UI/UX and technical perspective.

          Skills and Experience

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in EA, product management.
• You are an excellent communicator, a product person; a people’s person and you know how to set priorities and utilize your time in an effective manner.
• You are not shy to ask questions and are always striving to deliver the best results, considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.

Degree qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

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About the Role

The Head of Product Electric cooking, position presents an exciting opportunity to roll out an innovative new cooking product into the market. This role will be responsible for all product-related matters. This includes, but is not limited to product innovation, product design, product development, project management and hiring and managing the team, as well as managing the strategic evaluation of technical implementation directions. The roles and responsibilities are all in the pursuit of the overall goal: Design and develop a viable electric cooking product for the east African market.

The role has two specific core responsibilities, and several additional responsibilities that will evolve throughout the duration of the position in line with the company’s roll out strategy. Each of the core responsibilities will have an associated team with a manager that will report to the HOPEC.

BURN has been developing, testing, and bringing to market new cooking products for 10+ years in Kenya. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a growing organization and contribute to a fast-moving company committed to improving economic, environmental, and social outcomes in East Africa.

We offer a role with significant responsibility:

Specific roles and responsibilities may change as the position, and the company, and the product, evolve. This is a flexible and demanding post with numerous associated responsibilities. The key areas identified are:

Key responsibilities

• Develop the product: The role holder will manage the development of the technology, the cooking product and related software. S/he will focus on the customer throughout the entire customer journey, and take care of all the related internal stakeholders.
• Managing internal design and co-development of the product with external suppliers
• Manage the engineering team:
• Hard-ware development (PCB and integration in the cooking product)
• Firmware development for the PCB
• Software development of backend, frontend, data warehousing and app.

Additional responsibilities

• Technology Implementation: The role holder will be required partly in-house and partly outsourced and manage the implementation of any required third-party technology, to suit the local markets and fit the business model.
• Strategy: The role holder will work in collaboration with the senior team to ensure the product vision, business model and product are well aligned.
• Continuous product improvement: The role holder will innovate and improve the currently available solutions from a UI/UX and technical perspective. S/he will manage Product improvement with regards to user interface and functionality.
• Project Management: The role holder will be required to make detailed specifications/requirements and milestones for outsourced tasks and ensure that they are within set timelines, budget and costs. Manage supplier communication contracting and integration of results into the existing system and team.

Skills and Experience

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in EA, product management.
• You are a strong communicator, have always the overview over al moving pieces in your team.
• You have tremendous experience in managing divers’ teams that might span different time zones.
• You are a product person; a people’s person and you know how to set priorities and coordinate with all stakeholders within and outside of the company.
• You are not shy to ask questions and are always striving to deliver the best results, considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.

Degree qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Compensation including benefits matching the level of the candidate