Head of Production Department Job Vacancy in Rwanda

Head
of Production Department – Rwanda

Background

Our
client is a manufacturing a company involved in the following:

Paper
milling :
Tissue
products (toilet paper, serviette, facial tissues, medical towel, kitchen
towel and pocket tissues.)
Detergent
Products: (liquid soap, hand wash, glass cleaner and dish wash etc
Bar
soap

Our
client will be able to produce and sell locally but also regionally for about
USD 25 million (60% locally and 40% as exports, respectively.

It
is from this background that we are looking for dynamic and highly motivated
person to Head our commercial department to give it direction towards
excellence.

The
commercial department is composed of units of: Marketing, Sales and
Distribution and export.

Job
Purpose: The
purpose of the job is to coordinate and manage production activities at TIL in
accordance with set strategies, guidelines, rules, regulations; and guide the
Institution on all matters concerning production of products.

Key
Duties and Responsibilities:

Reporting
to the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, the Head of Production Department will
be expected to perform the following duties and responsibilities:

Leading
the company’s technical and production strategy;
Providing
vision and leadership to the entire technical and production team;
Plan,
organize and supervise all production and manufacturing operations to meet
the company’s production objectives;
Developing
the Trust Industries Research and Development (R&D) strategy;
Designing,
implementing and continually improving systems to achieve and maintain
efficiency in all production and manufacturing operations;
Developing
and implementing the company’s quality management systems;
Leading
the company to achieve and maintain ISO Certification;
Developing
and implementing the company’s SOP’s and ensuring these consistently
adhered;
Contribute
to the recruitment, training and developing of the production and
technical team;
Develop
and implement, in collaboration the the HR department, the Performance
management system across the production and technical department;
Coordinating
the preparation of Production budgets and Strategic Action Plans for the
TIL.
Coordinating
the implementation of TIL production policies, programmes, projects and
regulations and budgets and Strategic Action Plans;
Providing
technical guidance and advice to the management of TIL on production
issues, programmes and projects.
Monitoring
the use and management of production facilities in TIL;.
Promoting
appropriate production technologies and best practices;
Supervise,
coach and mentor staff in production department;
Prepare
and submit daily, weeely monthly and annual reports as required by the
supervisor;
Any
other duties required by the line manager and / or CEO;

Minimum
Job Requirements

Bachelor’s
Degree in Engineering, A master’s Degree in Engineering
At
least 6 year of relevant experience 3 of which should have been at a
senior level
MUST
have a back ground in detergents or Recycling (Priority)
Managing
production vendors. Client is using a Chinese firm to construct. This
person oversees the activities of this firm.
Prior
experience in managing a team of over 100.
Minimum
of 35 years. Maturity is important
Should
be willing to relocate to Rwanda.