Company Description

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

Job Description

Assist the Deputy Asset Manager in the operation of an assigned area in terms of production, quality, cost, delivery, technical, safety, and human resources, whilst respecting the defined goals. Responsible for the day-to-day management of people within production, to ensure company’s targets and objectives are met to meet customer requirements, ensuring that staff comply with health, safety and standard operating procedures. Strive to continually improve using Lean tools to reduce costs, improve production and quality. Act with minimum supervision. To propose improvements and innovations, inspiring others leading with a good model.

Main accountabilities:

Production:

• Ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) are monitored and targets achieved i.e. Plan Vs Actual
• Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient Workplace is always maintained.
• Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of clean grades to schedule within all relevant quality specifications.
• Communicate with the teams by utilizing the visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement.
• Drive performance of team members, giving direction and feedback to aid good performance.
• Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to.
• Through the utilization of lean manufacturing techniques, strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis.
• Support the implementation of engineering changes, production trials and model change.
• Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians.
• Promote Total Productive Maintenance procedures to further improve the availability of the line.
• Ensure all external and internal auditory standards and improvement requirements are met
• Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records/reports and data, and answering questions and responding to requests.
• Research and negotiate with vendors and suppliers to improve efficiency of processes and reduce unnecessary costs
• Supervises staff to produce manufactured products, organizes and monitors workflow
• Perform regular XBS system Updates.
• Processing batch reporting and accountability
• Safety, Health and Environment compliance
• Food safety and sustainability program participation
• Budget planning and execution
• Stock take participation.
• Mandatory time management of 60% on the ground, 40% office work.
• To keep active supervision in SHE and productivity especially in night shifts

Food Safety responsibilities:

• Planning and setting up and implementing the food safety system in your area of responsibility including collecting information of PRP’s and HACCP; Sanitation and Personnel Hygiene
• Ensure that the coffee is traceable.
• Communicate food safety according to communication matrix
• Responsibility for internal audits

People Management

• Responsible for training operators about the clean grades and processes within the operations.
• Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviors expected of them.
• Ensure KPIs are met by working to the plan, including management of, and reporting
• Provide product expertise within team, and respond to operator queries
• Work proactively with support functions to fully define the processes/procedures/controls relevant to team activities. Provide support and input to continuous improvement activities within the team

Relationship Management

• Liaise and communicate with other departments and ensure an effective interface with is maintained
• Feedback to the Management team to share ideas and improve operation, recommending, supporting and implementing continuous improvement activities and process and procedure improvements to optimize results and improve quality of delivery, in line with quality standards requirements delivery in line with Company and Customer requirements

Self Management

• Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures.
• Embraces personal challenge
• Confident, rounded thinking
• Is resilient, assertive, optimistic and open to change
• Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working together
• Actively Committed to team development
• High levels of motivation and action orientated

Qualifications

Experience:

• Min. 2 years as production supervisor or similar
• Experience working in warehouses and factories
• Experience in processing machinery
• Experience working in Industrial environment
• Day shift and night shift rotation
• Safety, Health and Environmental good practices
• Personnel supervision
• Quality controls implementation
• Budget and costing execution

Knowledge:

• Personnel management skills
• Team schedules matrix planning
• Overtime and employment act knowledge
• Excellent relationship skills
• Weighing equipment usage
• Database and records generation

Education:

Industry, Food, Mechanical or Other Engineering related education

Languages:

• English – exellent written and spoken
• Luganda

Systems:

Computer, email and office desk control, databases systems updating

Dimension and context:

Financial:

Take care and control of every resource from the company, must meet the efficiency of KPI’s and production plans. Planning and supervision required, control and accountability for volumes IN/OUT and out-turns analysis.

Staff:

Supervision of machinery and auxiliary operators, who shall coordinate and plan the work schedules and shifts that production plan requires. To plan and report schedules, work timing, attendance and work performance.

Others:

Responsibility for inventories of coffee in process (wet coffee, dried coffee, clean grades), coffee batch closing. Quality control in processing and machinery calibrations.

Periodically plan machinery services, shutdowns reporting, housekeeping, safety and operations standards according to company policies.

Decisions & Recommendations

• Decision taken, to coordinate productivity and high efficiency
• Open mind and commitment to new changes, continuous improvement, and innovations

Additional Information:

• Time availability required; shall meet 12-hours schedule in season in Day or Night shift, workdays: from Monday to Sunday when required.

• Assist the Deputy Asset Manager in the operation of an assigned area in terms of production, quality, cost, delivery, technical, safety, and human resources, whilst respecting the defined goals.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of people within production, to ensure company’s targets and objectives are met to meet customer requirements, ensuring that staff comply with health, safety and standard operating procedures.
• Ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) are monitored and targets achieved i.e. Plan Vs Actual
• Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient Workplace is always maintained.
• Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of clean grades to schedule within all relevant quality specifications.
• Communicate with the teams by utilizing the visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement.
• Drive performance of team members, giving direction and feedback to aid good performance.
• Through the utilization of lean manufacturing techniques, strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis.
• Support the implementation of engineering changes, production trials and model change.
• Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians.
• Promote Total Productive Maintenance procedures to further improve the availability of the line.
• Food safety and sustainability program participation
• Budget planning and execution
• Planning and setting up and implementing the food safety system in your area of responsibility including collecting information of PRP’s and HACCP; Sanitation and Personnel Hygiene
• Ensure that the coffee is traceable.
• Responsibility for internal audits
• Responsible for training operators about the clean grades and processes within the operations.
• Supervises staff to produce manufactured products, organizes and monitors workflow
• Take care and control of every resource from the company, must meet the efficiency of KPI’s and production plans.

• Personnel management skills
• Team schedules matrix planning
• Overtime and employment act knowledge
• Excellent relationship skills
• Weighing equipment usage
• Database and records generation
• Safety, Health and Environmental good practices
• Personnel supervision
• Quality controls implementation
• Budget and costing execution
• Computer, email and office desk control, databases systems updating
• Lean manufacturing techniques
• Food safety, PRP’s and HACCP
• Team development and communication

• Min. 2 years as production supervisor or similar
• Experience working in warehouses and factories
• Experience in processing machinery
• Experience working in Industrial environment
• Day shift and night shift rotation
• Industry, Food, Mechanical or Other Engineering related education
• English – exellent written and spoken
• Luganda