Head, Chicken Processing Plant at Eastern Plains Integrated Farms Limited

JOB SUMMARY

• We are seeking an experienced Head, Chicken Processing Plant to provide strategic and operational leadership across the plant. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving production performance, profitability, food safety, quality, maintenance effectiveness, workforce productivity, and continuous improvement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead end-to-end plant operations covering slaughtering, defeathering, evisceration, chilling, cut-up, packaging, storage, and dispatch.
• Develop and execute operational plans while ensuring production schedules and customer requirements are consistently achieved.
• Drive yield improvement, waste reduction, productivity, throughput, and cost optimisation across processing operations.
• Lead Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering amp; Maintenance, Cold Chain, Warehouse, and Dispatch functions.
• Ensure compliance with HACCP, GMP, ISO 22000, biosecurity standards and other regulatory requirements.
• Oversee preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment reliability, plant improvement, and capital projects.
• Manage cold-chain operations, inventory accuracy, product integrity, and distribution activities.
• Develop and manage plant budgets, monitor operating costs, and implement profitability and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Analyse plant performance and prepare reports covering production, yield, quality, maintenance, safety, costs, and financial performance for management.

QUALIFICATION & REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in animal science, Food Technology, Poultry Science, Agriculture, Food Science amp; Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in poultry processing or food manufacturing, including at least 5 years in a senior plant/processing leadership role.
• Proven experience managing large-scale chicken processing operations, budgets, large workforces, and multiple departments.
• Strong knowledge of food safety, quality management, poultry processing, HACCP, and GMP.
• HACCP, GMP, Food Safety Management, or Poultry Meat Processing certification is an advantage.
• Strong leadership, business acumen, decision-making, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement skills.