Summary
Date Posted: Monday, July 01, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Position: Production Executive
Duma Works is recruiting a Production Executive – Paints for our client in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Our client is a leading provider of a product range that covers high quality, specialty and eco-friendly: paints, coatings and surface treatments.
CONTEXT AND PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
In the context of the company’s vision of being a leading East Africa paint producer, maximizing shareholder value through growth, innovation and efficient, low-cost operations; The primary accountability of this role is to manage the paints production unity and development support to ensure smooth realization of company strategic goals in East Africa. To plan, organize, lead, control and implement paint production to an ideal standard. The role holder has to ensure that standard paints production are achieved in a cost effective and at the right time. .

ACCOUNTABILITIES & AUTHORITIES OF THE ROLE
The Production Executive is accountable for:
Safety:
• Manage and Support SHEQ initiatives to achieve company SHEQ objectives. Build commitment to sustain improvements in safety.
• Demonstrate behavior that is consistent with the company’s Safety Vision and Values;
• Accountable for the zero incident and accident requirements in all areas of your accountability;
• Ensuring that health and safety policy and guidelines are followed and that Safety targets are set up annually, measured and improved continuously, thus creating a safe environments where employees can work safely in all areas.
Production:
• Production Planning – Define, propose and implement the annual production plan for the Plant, according to communicated needs and Sales Forecasts.
• In-process Quality Management.
• Preventative Plan Management – To define together with the maintenance the preventive plan, including timings to stop and start the production.
• Coordinate all activities developed in the production areas in Plant, namely manufacturing process, stocks, joint activities with maintenance and human resources
• Organise Production activities to:
• Control operational performance to achieve production targets and associated plant objectives.
• Ensure continuous improvement/WCM methodology is embedded and used as the key process in identifying and prioritising plant losses.
Budget:
• Profitability Management – Analyse performance continuously, permanently controlling all the production costs identifying the deviations causes and proposing corrective measures.
People:
• People Management and Development; Manage the performance of production teams and developing them through regular reviews.
• Through appropriate management style, foster a culture of engagement, commitment and continuous improvement within the plant, coaching and developing a leadership style amongst the management population that will support this culture.
• Manage employee relations issues for your team to promote harmonious and healthful working environment.
General Management and Supports:
• Support Production/ Operations Manager in the formation of the plant business strategy and play a key role in delivering against the strategy.
• Manage Production KPI’s on a daily basis.
GENERIC ACCOUNTABILITIES & AUTHORITIES
PART A – ALL EMPLOYEES
As an employee, you are accountable for the following:
• Committing your best endeavours and full capability to the work assigned to you by your manager (Doing your best);
• Advising your manager if you do not understand the work that he/she has assigned to you, or if the assignment does not fit with your knowledge of the circumstances, current skills or available time and resources;
• Advising your manager of any situations or conditions that could create obstacles to, or opportunities for, the work of the managerial team or company;
• Demonstrating work behaviours consistent with the company Values and work within prescribed boundaries, including required behaviours, company policies, standards, procedures and legislation requirements;
• Disclosing timely information to manager when accountability cannot be met within limits or can be met with less time or resources than planned.
PART B – MANAGERIAL ROLES
• As a managerial role holder, you are accountable for the following:
• Your own personal effectiveness as an employee of the company in accordance with Part A above;
• The outputs and working behaviours of your subordinates;
• Building and sustaining a team of subordinates capable of producing those outputs;
• Continuously improving the processes used by the team in delivering outputs;
• Modeling work behaviours for your subordinates, consistent with the company Values;
• Exercising effective managerial leadership (including exercising the Managerial Leadership Practices outlined below) in relation to your subordinates. Selection and Induction: Managers are accountable for selecting subordinates capable of performing the work required of them and for ensuring that they are inducted. The manager must personally provide the newcomer with details of the specific role, how it fits into the company’s organization structure, and the context of work encompassed by the role, and role accountabilities, authorities, limits, relationships and available resources;
• Continuous Improvement: Managers are held to account by their managers for continually improving the processes that they control and delegate to their subordinates to use within the areas of their accountabilities;
• De-selection and Termination: De-selection is the authority to decide to remove a subordinate from a role after following due process; and termination with due cause is the authority managers have to instantly terminate subordinates for grossly and blatantly breaking company policies and regulations, or when dangerous situations occur because of their negligence by following due process.
PART C – MANAGER-ONCE-REMOVED (MoR) ROLES
• As a MoR role holder, you are accountable for the following:
• Your own personal effectiveness as an employee of the company in accordance with Part A above;
• Your effectiveness as a manager in accordance with Part B above;
• Ensuring the quality of leadership being exercised by immediate subordinate managers;
• Establishing and sustaining Subordinate once Removed (SoR), cross functional working relationships between specific roles;
• Assessing the Current Potential Capability of SoRs and maintaining a talent pool;
• Mentoring SoRs regarding career development;
• Determining successors for immediate subordinate roles;
• Recruitment of SoRs by selecting a list of candidates from which an immediate subordinate manager may make a choice for filling a specific role.
• As a MoR role holder, you have authority for the following:
• Vetoing the appointment of a proposed new SoR;
• Deciding SoR appeals regarding unfair treatment;
• Deciding on transfers, promotions, demotions and de-selection by following a due process of SoRs;

Qualification
• BSC chemical Engineering Degree/ Diploma (Engineering – Production) or similar
• 5 years’ practical experience in the Paint and Coatings industry or related field.

Job Education Requirements: BSC chemical Engineering Degree

Job Experience Requirements: 5 years

Job Skills: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
To apply online click here or send your Cover Letter and detailed CV to apply@jobs.dumaworks.com marking the subject as “3619”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 3619 Barack Obama, +2547xxxxxxxx. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.
Deadline for receiving applications: Saturday, 13 July 2019
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