Plant Manager at UNILEVER Tanzania

Main Accountabilities
PRODUCTION

• Planning and enforcing factory production schedules.
• Constantly
  check that all sections of manufacture are operated in line with best
  quality practice and are in line with the Good Manufacturing Practice.
• Review labour productivity, shift cover and contracting opportunity to achieve cost effectiveness.
• Check,
  authorize and ensure dispatch of production reports on a regular basis.
  The reports include weekly and monthly tea returns, firewood issues and
  stocks.
• Maintain comprehensive and accurate records and apply
  them to measure performance and identify trends in key performance
  indicators e.g. water, energy consumption, solid waste, employee roll
  call records for improvement)
• Carry out specific projects and tasks.

SAFETY HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT (SHE)

• Implement
  of company defined policies allowing the unit /Department to meet
  Occupational Health, Safety environment care and consumer safety
  requirements
• Proactive identification of hazards or environment
  aspects and putting in place effective safeguards aiming at eliminating
  /reduction of accidents or incidents.
• Draw up objectives and targets, management programmes, reviews, and document.
• Check
  and approve SHE returns to include OHS &EPR, accidents return and
  personnel numbers for the calculation of accident frequency rates.
• Lead the factory accident investigation team to carry out investigations of all accidents in the factory.
• Hold factory SHE committee meetings on quarterly basis and action on the recommendations.
• Implement all aspects of the legal and statutory requirements touching on OHS and E.
• Plan for emergency drills (e.g., fire drills, alarm tests, water pollution).
• Carry out training on SHE for all the unit employees and third parties.
• Take full responsibilities in ensuring that Third party/contractors are aware and that they follow provided Safety guidelines.
• Overall responsibility for the Management of Change (new equipment, new employees, process change, new products/formulation).

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PERSONNEL: (INDUSTRIAL/EMPLOYEE RELATIONS)

• To
  develop and achieve the synergy between technical and human
  capabilities to maximize manufacturing performance by maintaining
  discipline, welfare and morale of workers, issuing instructions and
  training of staff
• Implement the Company personnel policies, CBA
  and labour laws at all times. The New labour laws and the employment act
  to ensure full compliance.
• In consultation with HR department,
  plan and fulfil the training needs for all direct reports, graded staff,
  and unit employees to develop them to meet the present and future needs
  of the business (SHE, FQA, SOP etc).
• Attend court proceedings on behalf of the company on matters relating to the unit.
• Build and maintain good industrial relations with all stakeholders.

MAINTENANCE AND ENGINEERING

• Develop a factory machinery maintenance plan/schedule and ensure provision of sufficient resources for full implementation.
• Ensure critical machinery spares are stocked at the factory or ordered from Logistics Department.
• Responsibility
  for implementation of unit engineering projects (timing, Safety, MOC,
  Contractor Management, Commissioning, validation).
• Food Quality Assurance (FQA)
• Formulate action points for full implementation of the ekaterra/eTT Quality

CONSUMER SAFETY POLICY

• Facilitate
  Implementation of the ekaterra Food quality and consumer safety
  framework standards by conducting food quality and safety risk
  assessments, hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP),
  inspections, drawing up quality assurance objectives and targets,
  management programme and reviews including documentation.
• Carry out a food quality and safety made tea traceability as required.

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ACCOUNTING, CASH, PAYROLL & STOCK CONTROLS

• Ensure that unit accounts returns are checked and approved for submission to Finance Department as per Returns checklist.
• Responsible
  for ensuring that unit accounts discussions are done monthly as per
  agreed timetable with Finance partner. Ensure accounts discussion points
  are actioned accordingly.
• Budget forecasting in line with the factories operation requirements and manage expenditure accordingly.
• Carry
  out variance analysis of unit budgets versus actual expenditure and
  investigate adverse variances and take corrective action.
• Responsible
  for the unit payroll system. Ensuring that access to the system is well
  controlled through restricted access rights to various users.
• Check
  and approve payroll source documents (Daily attendance, muster sheet,
  labour distribution sheet, overtime sheets) for payment.
• Carry out appropriate verifications of the same documents/inputs with the payroll outputs summaries.
• Ensure unit cash receipts are posted into unit cash book and safely kept in unit cash safe.
• Ensure Petty cash vouchers must be approved in line with the authority given as per the Authority Limits schedule.
• Ensure the unit cashbook is always kept up to date and entries must be made as and when they occur.
• Carry out daily & weekly cash count and ensure that the cash in hand always agree with the balance shown in the cash book
• Ensure security of unit cash at all times and that cash hand overs are properly documented.
• Be in-charge of the factory cash and all related documents (receipts, cash book, Petty cash voucher and cash requisition).
• Ensure
  that the monthly unit stores journal is verified and approved before
  sending Responsible for ensuring that all unit stocks are properly
  accounted for. All stock receipts should be posted into bin card and
  stock issues are approved and updated promptly
• Ensure weekly
  & monthly management checks on the unit stocks at the stores i.e.,
  carry out physical count and tie with bin card.
• Ensure an up-to-date record of all non-stock items maintained in the unit stores to Finance for interface.
• Notify finance of any stock losses, damages, obsolescence etc.

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Qualifications

• A
  degree in food Science and Technology or degree in Engineering
  (Mechanical or Production). Food processing experience will be an added
  advantage
• 3-4 Years’ experience, intensive knowledge of food processing – preferably Tea processing.

Abilities/Qualities

• Product and Process Expertise
• Manufacturing Performance control
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Asset Care and Management
• Supply Chain process and management
• Finance Management
• HR Management and industrial relation

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