About the Company
Regen Organics is an industry leader in regenerating agriculture, cities and communities. We implement a circular economy model to sustainably manufacture regenerative insect feed for animals, various organic fertilizers and ecofuels for use in fast growing emerging markets. Our technologies and professional logistics network are developed in-house to safely collect and transport residual organics generated in cities and their environs for upcycling into various regenerative products. We operate the largest organics recycling plant in East Africa.
Operational since 2011, Regen Organics collects and treats over 50,000T of residual organics per year, and successfully sells its agri-inputs to farmers in over 40 counties in Kenya, who see improved yields and increased incomes. To date, nearly 6,000 farms have adopted regenerative farming. Our work is also pioneering climate action in Africa – we offset nearly 50,000T of carbon per year and we have big expansion plans to scale this impact. Our goal is to expand across Africa and Asia, safely processing 1,000,000T a year of waste and more than 1,000,000T of carbon emissions offsets per year in the next decade.
For our work, we have been recognized by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative companies in the world doing social good and one of the 10 best companies in Africa, by Earthshot Prize as a Finalist building a waste free world, and by the Food Planet Prize for our innovative circular economy approach.
About the Role
Regen Organics seeks an accomplished, driven Factory Manager to lead the production teams in our recycling facility in Kisumu.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead development of leader standard work for all leaders (crew leads & asst. mgrs) across the factory.
- Lead development of systems to facilitate daily accountability across all sections in the factory
- Lead execution and adherence evaluation of Leader Standard Work.
- Lead execution of the daily and weekly production schedules
- Lead the production team to execute the production plan for all end products using planned resources and budget
- Lead the Assistant Managers in using the problem-solving toolkit to identify, develop hypotheses and propose solutions to deviations from schedule and from the resource plan. From this exercise, lead the team to develop corrective and preventive actions.
- Lead the implementation of corrective and preventive actions assigned to you, and ensure that those assigned to your team are resolved on time, and effectively.
- Develop systems/models and metrics to track, monitor and control resource consumption and production schedules
- Lead CAPA to resolve variances from target resource consumption metrics.
- Collaborate with Quality, Maintenance, HSE and support departments to ensure that production is executed on time, in full and to the required level quality, cost, speed, productivity, health, safety and regard for the environment.
- Expected to collaborate effectively with all vendors providing goods and services to the factory with the aim of extracting as much value for the company
- Expected to work closely with the government relations team to manage relationships with govt authorities
- Expected to lead authorized site visits as needed
- Lead production scheduling and resource planning by day, by week, by month and for the rest of the year to match the production plan.
- Lead the production team to execute the plan for all end products as per schedule.
- In case there are variations to plan, identify, develop hypotheses and propose solutions to deviations from schedule and from the resource plan. From this exercise, lead the team to develop corrective and preventive actions.
- Lead analysis, hypothesis and development of innovative initiatives to achieve cost reduction targets, targets on plan adherence and targets around process capability, health, safety and adherence to environmental considerations Lead execution of the production plan with budgeted resources.
- Lead execution of plans to achieve cost targets
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (chemical, mechanical, industrial) or relevant fields
- Minimum of 4 years experience working in a factory setting within either of these roles:
– Quality management
– Factory management
- Proficiency in MS Office (word, excel) or Google suite (docs, sheets)
- Able to handle coordination and execution of multiple projects
- Great collaboration, communication and people skills
Job Location
KisumuApplication Deadline
Regen Organics/FreshLife is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply.
NOTE TO APPLICANTSREGEN ORGANICS AND FRESH LIFE DO NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). REGEN ORGANICS AND FRESH LIFE DO NOT ASK FOR INFORMATION PERTAINING TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS AND ANY OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION OUTSIDE THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS.
