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Production Lead

Job Purpose

Production Lead is responsible for oversee the production process, ensuring that safety requirement in place and operations are carried out in a timely and cost-effective manner, while maintaining quality standards, develop and implement production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and optimize production capacity.

Key Responsibilities

  1-Health & Safety:

• Adhere to and enforce relevant legislation and policies and ensure that highest degree of safety and safe working practices are maintained.
• Ensure full compliance with Lafarge safety standards and promote safety culture and safe practices among the entire work
• force.
• Ensure all BP employees are operating in a safe working environment.
• Provide monthly reporting and statistics regarding safety performance and incidents.
• Ensure that all employees and contractors following Health Safety Rules.
• Conduct VPC and direct other key members in the company to do the same.
• Identify people with potential to assume broader safety responsibility.
• Submit the safety figures on monthly basis to the company and discuss areas of improvement.
• Lead investigations in major safety incidents.
• Review investigation reports on safety violation incidents and decide on additional actions to be taken.
• Assume key responsibility for developing H&S improvement plan and relevant action plans.
• Follow HSIP of the plant and follow the progress.
• Stopping Unsafe act.
• Ensure that all employees trained.
• Attending all safety Meeting
• Ensure that all employees follow SWI.
• Achieve Annual Health and safety personal objective.

2-Functional:

• Accountable for developing and executing the overall operations plan and master production schedule to support the organization's strategic objectives and business requirements.
• Lead the planning and coordination of internal and external material supply, ensuring the development of short, medium, and long-term production plans through effective resource allocation, forecasting, estimation, and capacity planning.
• Monitor, analyze, and report operational performance, productivity levels, material supply status, and production progress, proactively identifying and resolving potential issues.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including LCE, Purchasing, Sourcing, Production, Laboratory, and Commercial functions, to align production plans.
• Develop and continuously improve operational procedures and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to enhance efficiency, consistency, and operational excellence.
• Ensure timely and accurate communication of operational plans to support monthly financial closing activities and business reporting requirements.
• Prepare and report End of Month operations and planning reports, operational challenges, improvement initiatives, and KPI achievements.
• Facilitate and lead commercial and operational planning meetings to review forecasts, evaluate performance, and update production schedules as required.
• Ensure Alternative Fuel (AF) materials comply with established quality standards and specifications.
• Monitor stockpiles in accordance with safety requirements, including temperature monitoring, aeration practices, and safe-distance controls.
• Monitor industrial waste acceptance and rejection criteria while ensuring compliance with safe material handling procedures.
• Review system availability through the verification and completion of daily operational checklists.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for deviations in operational KPIs and implement corrective actions as required.
• Report and maintain records of safety, production, and operational KPIs, while auditing traffic management activities on a daily basis.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain and Procurement teams to ensure the timely availability of raw materials and other required inputs, while monitoring inventory levels on a daily basis.
• Lead, manage, and develop the operations team, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting talent development initiatives.
• Optimize the utilization of mobile equipment to support operational efficiency and productivity.
• Manage Alternative Fuel (AF) blending and mixing activities prior to kiln feeding to ensure compliance with approved mix standards.

Education

Qualifications & Experience

     Education:

• Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering / Science

Technical Skills:

• Sap user
• Microsoft Office Applications
• Analytical Skills
• Familiar with RDF & Biomass Shredders
• Heavy Mobile Equipment background
• Extensive knowledge of effective health and safety
• Strategy planning experience
• Budget management

Experience: 

• 5 – 7 years of operational experience with minimum 4 years in Kiln Area AF.
• Cement Background or waste management companies
• Industrial experience in waste treatment operations or equivalent.