Chief Engineer at Olam Nigeria Limited

Function: MATS
Sub-Function:  Engineering

Job Description

• The role requires an individual with excellent leadership abilities to oversee multiple company projects.
• The responsibilities include managing everyday maintenance requirements, guiding and managing the field engineering teams and setting long and short-term project goals.
• You will be required to negotiating with vendors and clients, ensure that projects stay within time and budgetary restraints, and compile required reports for defining action items.
• You are a person who regularly upgrades yourself and keeps abreast of cutting-edge advancements in your field and is dedicated to excellence. Great people skills are always a plus point.
• The incumbent would be responsible for plant maintenance of Ghana, Cameron & Senegal mills.

Strategic Effectiveness:

• Overall management of all processes that pertain to breakdown, maintenance and performance of the plants.
• Exceeding prescribed standards on hygiene, establishing new benchmarks when it comes to this aspect of maintenance.
• Deep understanding of the regulatory framework and organizational guidelines for the health and safety of all employees of the plants.
• Ensure all functional management are aware of the correct codes of practice, both statutory and advisory.
• Exceed advisory and not just regulatory guidelines on the green initiatives. Ensure production plants produce minimal dust and noise both internally and externally.

Operational Effectiveness:

• Effective resource management to maximise capacity utilization and to deploy processing and quality resources accordingly.
• Process monitoring and optimization to move towards elimination of controllable losses and minimizing the impact of non-controllable losses.
• A hands-on approach for regular site inspection and a flair for training and keeping the team engaged.

Organizational Effectiveness:

• Sensitizing and training the entire workforce on matters of safe working practices and their role in maintaining the highest standards of safety.
• Work with the team to identify personnel training needs.
• Actively promote training and personal development on-site (Costs to be controlled within agreed budgets).
• Best in class vendor management practices to be central for cost-effective management of external contractors - seek to challenge their costs and performance to ensure quality service at approved costs.
• Coordinate with managers to maintain and administer all personnel records and systems relating to employees (excluding records of sickness, absenteeism and holidays, recorded in the General Office).
• Robust systems to be deployed along with respective managers to ensure the safekeeping of all company agreements and financial instruments.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, QEHS, HACCP related certification.
• Relevant certifications for current practices in plant management/maintenance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work with a diverse workforce.
• 15+ years of experience in handling maintenance, utilities and projects in several jobs as mechanical/electrical engineer and project-related management