Production Supervisor at Glacier Products Ltd Kikuyu Chocolate Plant

Job Summary: The main role is to support business strategy by ensuring efficiency in planning, co-ordination and control of manufacturing processes from receiving of raw materials to dispatch of final products according to the company policy.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Interpreting the production schedule and assign specific production duties.
• Addressing special order needs in liaison with the Production Manager.
• Scheduling production as per plan and reporting deviations and reasons thereof
• Responsible for the day to day running of the plant by establishing priorities to ensure that operations run efficiently
• Filling and packaging Warehouse Management – Daily posting of production into the warehouse. Receiving and accounting for the WIP, Inclusions & Packaging materials from the store.
• Ensuring proper housekeeping and ensuring that all machinery are well maintained and there is no tampering of the machine settings by unauthorized staff.
• Personnel Management- Identifying staff issues within the team and channeling them as appropriate. Training of staffs and duty allocation to staff following production schedule.
• Doing daily variance analysis between actual consumption and planned consumption for WIP and inclusions and reporting it to Production Manager.
• Report Management – Daily production plan, Daily Variance report & Daily Material consumption report

Formal Education and Professional Qualifications:

• University degree: Preferably BSc. in Food Science and Technology or related discipline
• Computer literate-working knowledge of MS-Office applications
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing System (Kaizen) an added advantage
• Knowledge of HACCP, GMP ,ISO 22000 – 2005, ISO 9001 and other food management systems.
• Experience in a food production or related FMCG manufacturing facility a MUST.
• Experience in a leadership position with proven team management and leadership.
• Accounting proficiency is desired.