- Company: Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc
- Location: Nigeria
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc is looking for a Senior Manager to lead plant operations at its Premier Feed Mills facility. This position focuses on optimizing end-to-end milling operations for a high-capacity plant (1000TPD). You will be responsible for ensuring production efficiency, cost control, and compliance with safety and quality standards in a humid, coastal environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage full-scale operations of the high-capacity single plant.
- Drive throughput optimization and minimize downtime.
- Ensure alignment with corporate production and cost targets.
- Implement robust preventive and predictive maintenance systems.
- Address corrosion risks due to coastal humidity.
- Ensure availability of critical spare parts despite supply chain delays.
- Ensure strict compliance with HSE regulations.
- Manage dust, heat, and high humidity conditions impacting machinery and product quality.
- Drive a zero harm culture (0 fatalities, 0 LTI).
- Manage challenges of raw material sourcing and logistics into Calabar.
- Ensure uninterrupted production despite port and transport variability.
- Build strong leadership bench within a large centralized team.
- Drive capability in automation, engineering, and plant optimization.
- Champion lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Track OEE, cost/ton, and efficiency metrics.
Requirements
- HND / B.Sc. In Milling Operations, Agricultural Engineering or any other related discipline.
- MBA in Operations Management is an added advantage.
- Minimum of twelve (12) years’ cognate experience.
- Membership in Feed Industry Practitioners Association (FIPAN).
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt is a requirement.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to make data-driven decisions.
- Strong crisis management capability.
- High level of analytical thinking to optimize large-scale operations.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should click here to apply online.
