Plant Manager – Beverages/Bottling Job in a leading soft drinks bottling Group

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Job Title: Plant Manager – Beverages/Bottling
Hays Specialist Recruitment – Nigeria

Job description
Our client is a leading soft drinks bottling Group in Sub Sahara Africa with plants and distribution centres situated in Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana and Kenya. In Nigeria there largest operation where they currently operate (9) manufacturing plants they have a requirement for a Manufacturing Manager to be based at there major plant in Lagos. The plant is the biggest in Sub Sahara Africa with (10) bottling lines.

Reporting to the National Manufacturing Manager your role will be the responsibility for all site operations to maximise efficiency and supply logistics achieving delivery on time targets. Drive a production plant and material yield with set framework of quality standards at optimal manpower and material cost and meet the production volume targets at all times at the correct cost budgeted

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Plan, organise, direct, controls and evaluate the bottling operations of the plant to produce the products needed by sales. Ensure the daily targets are met by production

Prepare the production schedules to ensure optimised production cost and reduced downtimes.

With the production Manager meet the daily requirements of sales

Plan and implement the maintenance management system of the plant that will provide high reliability of operations of the machines

Plan and manage the plants operational budget. This includes the variable cost budget, fixed controllable costs.

Plan and implement action plans designed to achieve the set goals for the following year as of the plants annual manufacturing plan

Job Specifications

You will have a HND/BSc Physical science or Mechanical/Electrical/Production engineering with a minimum of (5) years in performing production/engineering management in a food/beverage company and at least (3) years experience in a beverage bottling company in a managerial capacity

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