Recent Vacancies In A Renowned Agro-Allied Company, 3rd July, 2018

Adexen Recruitment Agency - Our client, a key player in the Agro-Allied industry, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:     Job Title: Technical Director Job Reference: 1434 Location: Ondo Industry: Industry & Manufacturing Function: Operations & Production Job Description

• Coordinate activities of all sections under his supervision and provide strategic vision to management in order to achieve company’s operational objectives.

• Implement an efficient preventive maintenance schedule for all generating sets.
• Plan the ordering of spare parts to enable timely repairs and overhauling of the generating set.
• Ensure the update of the generating set intervention log book is correctly done.
• Analyse the efficiency of our electricity production, both in term of energy produced and Diesel consumptions.

• Minimize down time of equipment through efficient preventive maintenance and timely intervention on all reported breakdowns.
• Develop efficient working relations with other departments in order to propose and implement timely solutions to identified problems.
• Implement an efficient management and control of workshop equipment and tools.

• Define and sustain a technical standard for all construction activities, including renovations.
• Establish a yearly pacification schedule for all construction, renovation and maintenance works.
• Approve all Bill of Quantity established by the civil department.

• Maintain, repair and upgrade the distribution network for water and electricity.
• Analyse the efficiency of water distribution network and the consumption of water.
• Analyse the efficiency of electricity distribution, both in term of energy produced and liter of diesel consumed.

• Establish the yearly budget (both in terms of capital expenditures and operational expenses) of all sections under his perimeter.
• Implement budget guidelines and analyze monthly actual results against budget.
• Implement and sustain an efficient management of procedures, data collection and reporting activities.
• Guarantee that all requirements for ISO 14001 are fully respected.
• Develop and maintain all Group standards within his perimeter.
• Guarantee that all requirements for Safety at Work are fully respected.
• Build a team of competent and dedicated technicians and operators, with a special emphasis on the Plant section.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years cognate experience.
• Excellent presentation and communication skill.
• Problem analysis, evaluation and presentation of recommended options/solutions.
• Ability to set and meet targets.
• Leadership Skills.
• Membership of Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) or related bodies.

• Provide reliable financial, non- financial information with respect to operations execution. Develop key measures that will improve the performance of respective activities within the company. Give advice to Management with respect to investments and putting in place the necessary strategies and tools to minimize the operational costs of the company.

• Define key performance indicators of the company activities (nursery, land preparation, immature, mature, factory and general overheads).
• Implement company activities scorecard base on the key performance indicators and physical data actual against the budget.
• Implement corrective action plan to anticipate or correct drifts with Head of Department.
• Implement cost reduction plan with Head of Department.

• Collect and analyze departmental budgets.
• Meet departmental budget owners for the defense of their budgets.
• Ensure the departmental budgets are consistent with budget objectives and business plan.
• Check all the variances with the history and value their impact on the budget.

• Organize monthly budgetary control meeting with the departments and the budget control department.
• Study monthly the variances of the budgetary control to find out the causes.
• Value the variances cause impact on the business.
• Implement action plan to correct the variances.

• Submit monthly reports to Group HQ.
• Submit local monthly reports.
• Perform any study as required by management.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance/Management
• Minimum of 5 years cognate experience in similar organization.
• Training in Sun System and Management control.
• Advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Intermediate user of French language.
• Strong analytical skill.
• Good presentation and communication skill.
• Mastery of budgetary procedures.
• Membership of Institute of Chartered Accountant (ICAN).