Production Manager at Tomi’s Treats Limited

Tomi’s Treats Limited – A Pioneer in the Afro-Caribbean Organic Baby Food Market. Tomis Treats is a 100% organic baby food company providing fruit purees to children. Our products are packaged in colorful squeezy pouches with child safety baby caps and are sold in leading supermarkets in Nigeria and Ghana.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Production Manager

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Monitoring factory sanitation and hygiene in accordance with SOPs for cleaning and sanitation. Also ensuring that First – Expire – First – Out (FEFO) is practiced at all times for waste reduction and effective cost management.
• Production, Planning, Supervision and coordination of processes from raw materials, handling to packaging with closest attention to critical control points (CCP) to ensure good quality products.
• Managing, supervision and monitoring of processes from coding, printing, capping, mixing, filling and packaging by ensuring good manufacturing practice at all times.
• Relate, coordinate and liaise with regulatory bodies such as NAFDAC, SON, government ministries etc. as regards product registration, importation of raw materials, sanitation, hygiene, production process and quality control.
• Oversee the production processes, drawing up a production schedule and ensuring production is cost effective.
• Stock monitoring, stock reconciliation and reorder level to avoid stock out as per production.
• Working knowledge of food safety tools such as lean manufacturing, 5’S of production, six – sigma, 5’P of production.
• Relate and work with relevant regulatory bodies such as NAFDAC, SON, Government ministries/agencies etc. as regards effective good manufacturing practices.
• Responsible for the selection of raw materials and maintenance of machine and equipment to avoid break down and downtime as per OEE and KPIs.
• Training of production personnel on how to achieve broad quality standard and regulation.
• Monitoring of products’ standards, implementation of quality standards, and also liaise with sales department to ensure total quality management system.
• Application of food safety plans and quality management system such as ISO, HACCP, GMP, SOP etc. and also ensure that health, safety and environment guidelines are followed.
• Documentation and daily preparation of production reports to the MD.
• Holding periodic meetings with the sales team and working on market feedback.

Qualifications and Experience

• B.Sc or equivalent in Industrial Chemistry, Chemistry, Food Technology or related disciplines
• Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience as a Production Manager in a food production or similar regulatory industry
• Must be a Male.

Key Competencies Required:

• High Attention to Detail Pro-active approach to Work
• High level of Numeracy Highly Computer Literate.

Application Closing Date
8th June, 2020.