Company’s Background & Details:
Grounded is both a women- and family-run business. Our goal is to create healthy, sustainable homes through safer, eco-friendly products. Made in Kenya.Serve as team leader and people manager, with ~10 direct reports in the roles.
Production Operators and Associates.
- Recruit and onboard new production team members as per agreement with management.
- Conduct regular training, task rotations, and performance reviews to support the development of the team.
- Ensure sufficient supply of product
- Collaborate with the demand planner to ensure proper scheduling of procurement and production to meet market demand. Set daily and weekly plans.
- Ensure there is enough product in the pipeline (WIP and F/G) to sustain demand.
- Support the team KPI: no partial fulfillments.
- Support procurement in ensuring a sufficient supply of inputs in the factory at all times KPI: no line-down.
- Ensure production inputs are taken care of, accounted for suitably, and used appropriately in production.
- Daily, Weekly, and Monthly meetings, involving multiple stakeholders
Employee's Key Responsibilities:
- Produce and maintain production documentation, such as master recipes, work instructions, process flow charts, batch sheets, and change management records.
- Supervise all technical work in production. Ensure adherence to recipes, controls, and quality standards.
- Identify and present process bottlenecks. Evaluate the impact of process improvements, using cycle time analysis.
- Ensure accurate and detailed reporting on production, with a focus on targets vs actuals, recipe adherence, quality adherence, and finished good presentation
- Responsible for compliance of the facility and equipment — OSH, NEMA, KEPRO, calibration, etc.
Drive Continuous Improvement
- Identify needs and present solutions for growth and efficiency improvements.
- Actively participate in increasing Gross Margin through cost-down and yield improvement projects.
- Improve efficiency and safety in the factory.
- Prepare for all aspects of Production for growth – team, equipment, raw material storage, and utilities.
- Understand the capacity of the production floor and initiate projects to unlock more capacity.
What You’ll Need:
- BSc. in Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, or a related subject. Equivalent experience is also accepted.
- Experience: 4-+ years cleaning-focused companies with a track record in manufacturing success.
- Strong understanding of quality and safety certifications (including KEBS) and corresponding formulation requirements.
- Strong knowledge of ingredient efficacy; formulation of liquid and solid products; analytical chemistry; user-centered design; and consumer insights.
- Excellent communication skills, discussing and describing data-related analysis, and ability to work with team members across different departments
- Experience and high capacity in managing multiple assignments at the same time and delivering high-quality outputs.
Conclusion:
- Ensuring the production team follows the plan and produces high-quality products.
- Ensuring there are no partial fulfillments by having enough products in the pipeline.
- Promptly communicating low stock of production inputs to the procurement team.
- Leading the team in doing an accurate stock count of production inputs, with the goal of zero
- discrepancies. If discrepancy, promptly support the Production Manager and Accountant in resolving the issue.
- Aware of COGS and thinking through how to reduce the cost of production.
- Supporting Production Manager in thinking through capacity building.