Kentegra Biotech
Position Title: Shift Manager
Location: EPZ Athi River
Work Schedule:
Will be required to work on shifts
Qualifications & Skills
- Degree in Chemical Engineering or a suitable equivalent from an accredited university
- Supervisory work experience of at least 4 years in a manufacturing or production set-up
- Demonstrable ability to lead a team and provide adequate guidance
- Decisive, Excellent communicator
- Good working knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation
- Team player with a positive attitude towards work and colleagues
- Positive Attitude and ability to work in fluid and dynamic environments
Duties & Responsibilities
- Training and motivation of staff in the Factory
- Coordinates production activities by ensuring the shift set targets are met
- Play an active part in plant continuous improvement plans
- Organizes machine cleaning and maintenance of highest level of housekeeping standards putting in place KAIZEN concepts and principles
- Ensure shift production records are properly maintained and preparation of production reports
- Does shift production planning and ensures proper execution of the same
- Enforces health, safety and environmental rules and regulations in line with the company policy and ensure employees work safely and prevention of damage to property and equipment
- Maintenance of discipline and order as per laid down Disciplinary procedure
- Manages production performance by checking the overall equipment efficiency against the production output
- Works closely with shift operation
- Plans for machine maintenance and takes active part in autonomous and preventive maintenance
- Research, development and trials for new products
- Ensures product quality as per the laid down quality standards
- Data capturing, and entry into the system for the generation of various production reports for
management information system - Conduct data analysis to come up with trends of performance in production and material usage
Please apply only if you fulfill the above criteria.
Email your application as one word/pdf document with the title Shift Manager, EPZ to
info@kentegrabiotech.com by 3rd February 2023.
Female applicants are especially encouraged to apply and only successful applicants will be contacted.