Functions and Duties

Directly reporting to the COO

• Directly Managing Food hygiene, OSH and Compliance to the law (Food Act 254, OSHA 2007).
• In conjunction with training department ensure new staff are trained on level 1 and level 2 hygiene
• and food safety
• Ensure that all food and beverage team members have an adequate knowledge of food hygiene
• through continuous training and monitoring
• Organise food hygiene meetings and trainings and keep accurate records of all trainings and
• meetings held
• Follow up with all related teams that trainings are understood and actions implemented
• Development of classroom trainings for all kitchen and service stewards
• Conducting monthly internal audits to ensure conformity to set hygiene and food safety
• procedures and create action plans for non-conformances
• Contribute to sourcing new suppliers and ensure all suppliers are visited regularly to evaluate
• their production in terms of hygiene
• Designing process flow charts and SOPs
• Implementing product traceability from suppliers and the central kitchen
• Setting up a HACCP system and highlight quality control points and setting quality performance
• Focal person with external service providers in sanitation, and pest control at the chain, and
• external consultants on hygiene and food safety
• Shift Production Manager-Production| Manufacturing Department| Highlands Mineral Water Company Ltd |Nyeri, Kenya |January 2018- September 2018
• Functions and Duties
• Directly Managing a team of 66 crew in a shift
• Ensuring swift and smooth plant start-ups and shutdowns through effective operator
• handovers at the start/end of every shift
• In consultation with senior syrup room blender; ensure production plans are prepared and met
• In consultation with production clerks, review production special orders and schedule production for earliest delivery
• Initiate and give direction on any process changes to ensure product specifications are achieved and maintained by controlling and stopping non-conforming products from further processing
• Facilitating accurate completion of the Batch Manufacturing Record (BMR) and focus on plant operational efficiencies, including measuring processes and process inputs and outputs (OEE,
• Availability, Performance and Quality)
• Keeping records of workers attendance, identifying reasons for staff non-conformance (e.g.
• skills upgrade, managing poor performance, refusal to obey lawful instruction, absenteeism)
• and initiate disciplinary action where applicable;
• Ensuring quality standards are implemented and adhered to, diagnosing plant problems
• (process troubleshooting in liaison with Shift technical operators and Shift Technical Maintenance staff) for interpretation of process troubleshooting findings to optimize production output;
• Developing initiatives in improvement of production standards and reduction of costs, communicate and enforce KPIs to measure efficiency of all production process;
• Conducting daily production meetings with different production disciplines, including Process controllers, and maintenance technicians to analyze previous shift results and implement any necessary changes to meet demand;
• In consultation with Shift maintenance, make timely requisitions for machine maintenance during breakdowns, generate maintenance job cards and ‘permit to work’ for hazardous job;
• As a Shift Manager, allocate and reallocate manpower on the production line and revise production schedules and prioritize as needed in order to maximize productivity;
• Constantly undertaking plant inspection and reporting all unsafe conditions and risks/hazards in line with company Safety and Health Policy

Requirements:

• HACCP and food safety training and certification is critical.
• Professional certification
• 2 – 3 years’ proven experience in a compliance officer role.
• Experience in risk management
• Knowledge of legal requirements and controls
• Familiarity with industry practices and professional standards
• Good knowledge of legal requirements and procedures.
• Brilliant oral and written communication skills.
• Highly-analytical with strong attention to detail.