Plant Manager at Adexen

Introduction

Adexen is mandated by an international manfucaturing company to recruit a Plant Manager to manage the operations of their plant in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Company

Our client is a multinational food-products manufacturing company that produces dairy products, bottled water, cereals, baby foods and yogurts.

Job description

• Environmental Health and Safety
• Ensuring Product Quality
• Maintenance planning (preventive and curative) of plant machines and instruments
• Optimisation of production and the production process to attain production goals
• Collaborate with and assist all supervisors to lead people and ensure all production goals are met.
• Prepare and establish all required improvement changes for various operations.
• Ensure compliance to all company policies and regulations and direct everyday activities of all plant personnel.
• Maintain policies and programs, implement same and maintain environmental health and safety for all production activities.
• Manage daily production activities in support of overall Strategic Plans.
• Deliver internal and external customers with the quality product that meet or exceed standards by properly scheduling people, equipment and other resources as needed.
• Will set goals and budgets and will monitor performance against targeted objectives.

Requirements

• 10 years of experience in manufacturing in food manufacturing or similar
• Engineering degree
• Solid knowledge of manufacturing best practices.
• Knowledgeable in Food Production Quality & Safety. 
• Solid knowledge of OSHA compliant workplace safety practices.
• Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to interact with workers from other cultures in a sensitive and harmonious manner. Able to work well with all levels of employees and managers. 
• Fully conversant English
• Competent in use of Excel, Word and Outlook