Position is based in Kinshasa, DRC

Salary : 4,000 USD - 5,000 USD Per month Tax free + fully furnished accommodation, food, transportation, medicals, tickets, visa, 30 days paid leave once in a year, performance bonus etc

- Conduct studies to discover ways to improve the efficiency of production processes

- Monitor every aspect of production to ensure compliance with established procedures and standards

- Oversee the maintenance, repair, and replacement of production equipment to ensure smooth work operations

- Develop and promote new food products to boost sales and increase generated returns

- Set production objectives and implement action plans for achieving set targets

- Conduct forecast to identify potential risks and contingencies in a proposed project

- Prepare periodic reports to update upper management on food production activities

- Create work shifts to ensure round-the-clock food production operations

- Maintain accurate inventory of raw materials and processed food products

- Ensure products and raw materials are stored properly at optimum conditions

- Carry out surveys to identify customer requirements and adjust to meet such needs

- Ensure all company regulations and government legislations are adhered to

- Works closely with quality control personnel to review product consistency and appearance to produce products that meet or exceed company standards and consumer expectations.

- Monitor and improve production yields to determine trends and areas of improvement.

- Meet or exceed production variance goal of production

- Monitor operation and maintenance expenses and research ways to reduce cost while maintaining product quality and prevent downtime

- Develop preventive maintenance program and spare parts program with Maintenance Manager that minimizes downtime to 5% of scheduled production

- Write and review established production schedules for all departments to insure established inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency as possible. Achieve labor variance goal of 0% of production.

- Implement inventory cycle count program that identifies real and potential inventory issues in finished goods, raw materials, packaging and containers.

- Meet or exceed inventory adjustment and product scrap budget of 0.25% of production

- Maintain appropriate inventory levels to meet fill rate of 99% and on time shipment of 100%.

- Control and improve the flow of production while maintaining product quality.

- Work with Quality Assurance Manager to schedule human and equipment resources to achieve 99% compliance on sanitation logs and environmental testing program.

- Remove production constraints; allocate human and equipment resources and direct production employees to attain all established goals.

- Remove waste and constraints from the production process to improve efficiencies and enhance productivity.

- Coordinate the hiring and the training of all manufacturing personnel both permanent and temporary.

- Analyze workforce requirements.

- Conduct performance appraisals and provide coaching and guidance to all operations employees

- Work closely with production team to ensure all members of the manufacturing team are aware of safety policies to provide a safe workplace.

- Maintain and support a superior safety and housekeeping program, including all timely communication initiatives.

- Work with production/purchasing manager to develop and improve supplier relationships and purchase price variance.

- Maintain physical security and access points to maintain a safe and secure work environment.

- The ability to perform other job-related duties as assigned or as needed.

- Proven leadership and management skills with the ability to optimize team performance and development

- Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key stakeholders and suppliers

- Strong and confident negotiator with the ability to negotiate at all levels

- Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills

- Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities

- Results orientated with ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines

- Commercially and financially astute with experience of managing budgets