About this role
Senior Manager - Plant Operations (Premier Feed Mills)
To lead and optimize end-to-end milling operations at the site (1000TPD), ensuring high-volume production efficiency, cost control, and compliance with environmental, safety, and quality standards in a humid, coastal, high-corrosion environment.
The Job
- Manage full-scale operations of a high-capacity single plant
- Drive throughput optimization and minimize downtime
- Ensure alignment with corporate production and cost targets
- Implement robust preventive and predictive maintenance systems
- Address corrosion risks due to coastal humidity
- Ensure availability of critical spare parts despite supply chain delays
- Ensure strict compliance with HSE regulations
- Manage dust, heat, and high humidity conditions impacting machinery and product quality
- Drive zero harm culture (0 fatalities, 0 LTI)
- Manage challenges of raw material sourcing and logistics into Calabar
- Ensure uninterrupted production despite port and transport variability
- Build strong leadership bench within a large centralized team
- Drive capability in automation, engineering, and plant optimization
- Champion lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives
- Track OEE, cost/ton, and efficiency metrics.
Qualifications
- HND / B.Sc. In Milling Operations, Agricultural Engineering or any other related discipline
- MBA in Operations Management is an added advantage.
Experience
- Minimum of twelve (12) years' cognate experience
- Membership in Feed Industry Practitioners Association (FIPAN), Certified Six Sigma Green Belt is a requirement.
The Person Must Have
- Have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Possess strong leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Have the ability to make data-driven decisions
- Demonstrate strong crisis management capability.
- Have high level of analytical thinking to optimize large-scale operations
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.