Job Title: Engineering Specialist
Location: Lagos
Job Description:
- Reporting to Technical Support Lead, the Engineering Specialist will provide engineering (maintenance and projects) support to processors (with a minimum annual installed capacity of 5,000 MT) with an objective to assist them to achieve improved effective machine availability, spare parts and consumables inventory planning, preventive maintenance implementation and local workshop development to achieve higher productivity, capacity utilization and efficiency.
- S/he will identify the gaps in existing engineering systems of partner processors and suggest an improvement plan which will ultimately lead to better efficiency, productivity, and cost optimization.
- S/he will support implementation of a tailored action plan with each processing unit to address those gaps as per agreed goals and milestones.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide engineering support to a portfolio of five processors to build robust engineering systems to address specific constraints related to particular sections of cashew processing (warehousing, calibration, steam cooking, shelling, oven drying, peeling, grading, fumigation, packing, and storage)
- Assist processors to optimize the effective machine availability, including advising on spares and consumables inventory
- Compile, analyze, and report data on progress of processing units with key internal and external stakeholders
- Lead the training and development programs of processors’ staff as well as key participants of the broader cashew processing ecosystem
- Ensure that women and other disadvantaged groups are sustainably integrated into processing activities
- Support processors to implement improved environmental practices, including effective waste management
- Support the establishment of processing units for cashew byproducts
- Oversight of processing equipment and machine productivity improvements and inventory management.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical / Electro-Mechanical/ Instrumentation / Electrical
- A minimum of 5 – 7 years’ experience in food processing
- Experience in cashew processing in Nigeria is required
- A minimum of 3 years’ engineering/ maintenance manager experience
- Experience training and building the capacity of people with diverse backgrounds and levels of education for performance improvement.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in large cashew processing unit (10,000-15,000 MT capacity).
Languages:
- Proficiency in spoken and written English is required
- Knowledge of local languages is a plus.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet demanding deadlines
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Strong interpersonal and team-building skills
- Thorough knowledge of cashew kernel grades and its various optimization
- Proficiency in MS Office & presentation skills are required
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Deadline: September 7, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering / Technical |