Position title
Supervisor, Feed Production
Hiring organization
Employment Type
Full-time
Industry
Agriculture
Job Location
Kaduna, Nigeria
Valid through
January 30, 2023
Responsibilities
- 3-5 years and above work experience as a junior plant manager or feed production
- Sc in Agriculture, Operations, Manufacturing, or related field preferred
- Proven experience working in plant operations especially livestock feed mill, wheat/grain milling factory, food processing or similar manufacturing process.
- Excellent track record of building a team to run the best in class preventive maintenance system.
- Good understanding of regulatory requirements for operating plants.
- Strong aptitude for root cause analysis and troubleshooting operational issues.
- Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills.
- Knowledgeable of safety, quality, productivity, inventory and stewardship processes.
- Proven managerial experience and ability to be accountable and lead by example.
Start Up Environment:
- Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.
Qualifications
- Budget and manage manufacturing cost structures by developing and maintaining operational expenses within budget allowance, and investigate cost-reduction measures.
- Collect and analyze data to reduce inefficiencies and waste.
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
- Direct and coordinate daily operations of feed production and develop plans that help operations run smoothly.
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
- Ensure company policies and procedures are followed at all times.
- Directs operations in ingredient receiving, grain drying, feed batching, feed pelleting, grinding, quality testing, sample gathering, mill sanitation and following/implementing all safety protocol and processes.
- Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts.
- Check the bio security and cleaning, housekeeping inside and outside feed mill.
- Monitors feed and ingredient inventories.
- Collect and check the feed indent and arrange the feed as per requirement.
- Promotes a safe workplace; follow all safety procedures and protocols and ensure staff adheres to each accordingly
- Reviewing market conditions to determine whether prices for feed should be adjusted.
- Assessing the quality of incoming ingredients and outgoing products for compliance with industry standards.
- Managing daily operations at the feed mill.
- Developing long-term plans for business growth and profitability.
- Ensure feed production adheres strictly to feed formulation from time to time
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