Production Manager Job in Kenya

Job Title: Production Manager

Job Purpose: The Production Manager will be incharge of coordinating the company technical systems and processing of high-quality standard goods, which meet the customers’ market specifications and quality standards
Production Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, review and implement company policies, procedures and practices that support attainment of company goals and objectives in respect of production of products;
• Utilization of the company’s available resources to follow-up and achieve targets in respect to the overall targets of the day;
• Ensuring that cleaning, sanitary, hygiene, systems are maintained within the processing line in liaising with the quality controller;
• Records maintenance / updating systems to facilitate corrective action to be taken to ensure food safety;
• To research and develop new products in relation to the company’s capacity and available resources;
• Developing an action plan to make the targets viable;
• Evaluating / adjusting on products formulations to make them cost effective and compete well at the same time maintain the required quality;
• Educating the other staff members on good manufacturing practices;
• Ensuring workforce discipline is maintained within the set working hours and regulations by liaising with the production supervisors;
• Evaluation on the cost of production both direct and indirect on frequent basis to enable running at minimum cost levels and still producing quality goods;
• Presentation and preparation of reports which are submitted to the Board of Directors for further action plan;
• To seek assistance from the Board of Directors or immediate boss in terms of administrative or management problems;
• To control and reduce on the rejection sale at all levels of operations and to be responsible for accountability (liaising with the Quality controller);
• Reporting all sales issues to the MD on behalf of the sales team.
• Carry out any other duties at the request of the Managing Director as may be assigned from time to time.

Key Result Areas

• Improvement of production efficiency and yields per batch per day;
• Reduction of production costs and utilization of raw materials;
• Development of new products ranges;
• Maintain and sustain product quality within acceptable market standards;
• Maintain and optimize staff levels within acceptable labour cost levels.

Job Specifications

Qualification: Minimum Diploma in Food Technology;

Experience: At least 4 years relevant experience in a busy Food processingDepartment.

Key skills and qualities: Good communication and reporting skills, good analytical skills, self-driven and result oriented.

How to Apply

If you meet the requirements, kindly send your CV to vacancies@jantakenya.com with the subject line as “Production Manager”