Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Main Purpose of The Job
The Assistant Field Manager supports leadership with the management of
staff and day‐to‐day operations for the assigned area of responsibility.
In this role, the individual is accountable to deliver established
goals, utilizes good judgment to assess and escalate situations when
warranted and utilizes knowledge and skills in the area of expertise
while maintaining expected green leaf quality standards. The Assistant
Manager must act as a leader by building constructive relationships and
by supporting agriculture department leadership in developing, setting,
and executing department goals and the strategic plan in accordance with
UTT mission statement. Also, he/she is responsible on people’s safety,
wellbeing, and security.

Accountabilities
Health, safety & environment
• Implementation of Company defined policies allowing the
Unit/Department to meet Occupational Health, Safety, Environmental
care and Consumer safety requirement
• Proactive identifications of hazards or environmental aspects and
putting in place effective safeguards aiming at
eliminating/reduction of accidents
• Check and Approve SHE returns to include OHS & EPR
• Hold factory SHE site meetings on monthly basis
• Implement all aspect of legal and statutory requirement touching OHS
and E
• Take fully responsibilities in ensuring that all third
party/contractors are aware and that they follow the given guard line.
• Plan for the emergency drill and draw learning and actions out of it
• Overall responsibility of the management of change MOC (New
equipment, new employee, process change, new product/formulation)
• Draw up objectives and target, management programmes review, and
document.

Estate management
• Manage Estate Division to the highest agricultural standards and
improve productivity through expansion and sustenance of mechanical
harvesting operations by having best practices of harvesting and
post-harvest handling.
• Plan and oversee day to day operations by supervising hand plucking,
harvesting personnel to ensure acceptable standards of green leaf
quality is harvested and well-handled to the factory.
• Plan and execute the estate division annual agricultural practice,
pruning and fertilizer application.
• Ensure the division administration is managed by providing
periodical crop forecast, validation of payroll input/output,
payments of employees and the entire financial expenditure is within
the budget.
• Manage the estate division industrial/employee relations, conduct
disciplinary cases as per the CBA /employment act and company
disciplinary procedure. Enhance good co-existence amongst workers
and the neighboring community.
• Manage the division infrastructure and conservancy to the required
standards; fully embed best practices in Rainforest alliance.
• Ensure safety policy is implemented and all safety training is
conducted to all sub- staffs and general labor.
• Ensure all workers are wearing the requires PPEs for the job.
• Deliver the business targets aligned to Business strategy, jobs to
be done (JTBD) and enhance performance culture through business
transformation.
• Interfaces with many roles e.g., Factories, Finance, HRBP, Unions,
Legal, etc.
• Operating and maintaining the site as a fully functioning and
productive all year round by wise planning of irrigation time,
pruning, fertilizing, weeding practices etc.
• Ensure that the division is always maintained to the highest
possible standards and that the company infrastructure and
associated accessories are robustly protected and cared for.
• Provide effective management of staff operating within the division
function, consisting of headmen/women.
• Managing, distributing, and maintaining the plucking equipment
within the division and reordering new ones from the central store
whenever necessary.
• Monitor the progression of all tasks within the division ensuring
all specifications are met within an agreed time, budget, and
quality requirements
• Comply with and help enforce standard policies and procedures within
the department relating to sustainability and related tasks
• Review future new tea development field space requirements, develop
and implement a management plan
• To carry out any other duty as directed by the line manager in
accordance with the level of the post.

Finance and contract management
• ·Responsibility for controlling and managing the production costs, field
costs, overhead costs, and total budget; and working with the estate
manager in budget setting in future years
• ·Ensure that cost effective support and maintenance arrangements are put
in place and regularly reviewed, using internal resources and
external/outsourced contractors where appropriate
• ·Working with the estate manager and fellow assistants to implement best
value utility arrangements and to reduce costs wherever possible.
• Anticipate future developments with the fields, estate
infrastructure, plucking accessories in advance, ensuring that adequate
planning and budgetary provision is made for maintenance and repair
works and that continuity of service is optimized

Key Skills
• Crop Production and Field Operations
• Sourcing – raw materials of agricultural origin
• Plant Breeding – tea nurseries
• Infrastructure Management
• Project Management/Information Technology
• Industrial Relations/Employee Relations

Abilities/Qualities
• Being well-organized and systematic
• Careful, accountable, responsible and punctual
• A team player – personable, caring, helpful, reliable and diplomatic
• Honest and approachable
• Good personal grooming & personal presentation

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture general, horticulture, agronomy, or any
equivalent bachelor’s degree in science

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
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https://careers.unilever.com/job/mufindi/assistant-field-manager-1/34155/31714789744 

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