Seed Production Coordinator at Balteum Consultants

Job Purpose

To support and manage the seed market customers by providing best in class service through leading a dynamic team and overseeing the seed production process on a day to day basis to ensure production targets are met.

Responsibilities

Kra 1: Operational Excellence

• Supervises daily operations of the seed process to achieve production targets.
• Identifies risks and bottlenecks and recommends areas of improvement and innovation in the seed production process.
• Supports and provides input to best in class seed production practices. Utilizes technical skills and experience to solve problems and recommend operating efficiencies.
• Supports and administers production budget for the seed process, ensuring cost improvements.
• Ensures all production activities are documented and all revenue captured.
• Ensures that seed stock is accounted for and shrink minimized.
• Supports common reliability processes and ensures the reliability culture is foundational to operations (i.e. deploys common reliability processes and metrics; focus on eliminating the root-cause of reliability problems, etc).

Kra 2: Customer Focus & Quality Management

• Liaising with seed customers and making production schedules
• Monitors production outcomes, quantity, and quality to ensure customer specifications and timelines are met.
• Documents quality issues that occur and reviews with the seed production teams to ensure they are addressed; and any complaints are recorded and reported.
• Measures quality performance in areas that impact the customers.

Kra 3: Safety & Risk Management

• Supports Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory (FSQR) experts to implement the most effective approach for complying with corporate safety policies and procedures.
• Implementing controls to mitigate risks (security, financial, safety, etc).

Kra 4: People Management

• Provides coaching to production workers and contractors, including coaching on the organisation’s core values and best practices.
• Supports implementation of department operational/reliability/safety training programs and controls/monitors employee performance records on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Assists on training and on boarding new/transferred employees as well as workforce engagement, recognition, development and coaching. Accountable for training seed production workers.

Qualifications

• University degree (Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Agribusiness, Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding, or related fields).
• 2 years’ experience is seed processing
• ISTA seed analysis certification (an added advantage)