Bottled Water Production Manager at Softnet Limited

Job Brief

• Responsible for plant production goals, including putting in place and implementing systems and procedures to ensure operations of the plant meet production plans, product quality, health/safety/environment, and cost standards.
• Responsible for quality and sales orientation, including identifying quality and sales improvement programs to improve the cost-effectiveness of the production process for the plant, as well as business development to improve market share.
• Direct and coordinate plant operations within company policy and guidelines, including purchase, materials deployment, production, and shipping/delivery.
• Work with company management to recruit and manage adequate, well-trained, and motivated staff through excellent leadership and communication skills, including staff recruitment, appraisal, and commendation/discipline/promotion.
• Ensure appropriate maintenance of the clean and safe plant (as per NAFDAC requirements), including setting up and ensuring execution of maintenance plans/strategies, maintenance job routines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), management of change process, etc.
• Ensure all necessary records are maintained to ensure effective monitoring of the production process in the plant, including monitoring of working conditions to ensure the continued provision of a safe and healthy working environment for the personnel and plant as well as safe end-products for consumers.

Requirements

• Required: Graduate of Biochemistry with at least 5 years +experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Experience may include a combination of work experience and education
• Preferred: Food/Beverage/Plastics manufacturing experience preferred, with at least 3 years experience in a similar role.
• Experience may include a combination of work experience and education

Competencies:

• Strong planning and organization skills, ability to work in teams and cross-functional integration, ability to multi-task and carry out effective stakeholder engagement (regulatory authorities, customers, host communities, etc)
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, employees, clients, customers, and the general public.
• High sense of urgency, visible and felt leadership, and safety champion.
• Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment, and seamless adaptation to change.
• Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, and Access.