🔔 HIRING: Supervisor, Feed Production at Babban Gona – NG

Key Responsibilities

• ​Budget and manage manufacturing cost structures by developing and maintaining operational expenses within budget allowance, and investigate cost-reduction measures.
• Collect and analyze data to reduce inefficiencies and waste.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
• Direct and coordinate daily operations of feed production and develop plans that help operations run smoothly.
• Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
• Ensure company policies and procedures are followed at all times.
• Directs operations in ingredient receiving, grain drying, feed batching, feed pelleting, grinding, quality testing, sample gathering, mill sanitation and following/implementing all safety protocol and processes.​
• Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts.
• Check the bio security and cleaning, housekeeping inside and outside feed mill.
• Monitors feed and ingredient inventories.
• Collect and check the feed indent and arrange the feed as per requirement.
• Promotes a safe workplace; follow all safety procedures and protocols and ensure staff adheres to each accordingly
• Reviewing market conditions to determine whether prices for feed should be adjusted.
• Assessing the quality of incoming ingredients and outgoing products for compliance with industry standards.
• Managing daily operations at the feed mill.
• Developing long-term plans for business growth and profitability.
• Ensure feed production adheres strictly to feed formulation from time to time

Requirements

• 3-5 years and above work experience as a junior plant manager or feed production
• BSC in Agriculture, Operations, Manufacturing, or related field preferred
• Proven experience working in plant operations especially livestock feed mill, wheat/grain milling factory, food processing or similar manufacturing process.
• Excellent track record of building a team to run the best in class preventive maintenance system.
• Good understanding of regulatory requirements for operating plants.
• Strong aptitude for root cause analysis and troubleshooting operational issues.
• Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills.
• Knowledgeable of safety, quality, productivity, inventory and stewardship processes.
• Proven managerial experience and ability to be accountable and lead by example.

Start Up Environment

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Work Location

• This role would be based in Kaduna.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance