Production Shift Lead
Kenafric Industries Limited July 2022-date
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensuring a safe working environment and use of personal protective equipment by all employees/service providers working or visiting the plant
- Ensuring production of high-quality products by emphasizing on the use of SOPs and enforcing in-process quality checks by machine operators
- Consulting with Quality Assurance and technical team to look into root causes of non-conformances and coming up with effective actions; implementing those actions and following up to ensure non-recurrence of the same incident
- Ensuring proper production planning product-wise and following up weekly, monthly and daily production planning as per demand from the market and forecasted quantities to meet and exceed customer expectations.
- Establishing Service Level Agreement (SLA) check list and audit, tracking all remarks for improvements
- Setting, monitoring, and following up production output to ensure maximum production efficiency
- Collecting and analyzing various data from production floor in regard to process quality parameters to give guidance in improvement
- Monitoring floor activities and achievements to reward staff as per performance management system
- Motivating staff and contributing to work environment that fosters pride in being part of a winning a team to promote personal growth.
- Monitoring and analyzing RM/PMreservations and stock variances weekly,monthly and escalatethe action.
- Accurate requisitioning of ingredients and packaging and setting up systems to eliminate or minimize wastagesor losses along the manufacturing process.
- Conducting and authorizing various trainings in relation to production.
- Training of shop floor teams on SOPs, machine safety instructions, GMP, HACCP, and enforcing use of these procedures.
- Conducting staff appraisalto determine trainingneeds, transfer and or promotions as per companypolicy.
- Maintain good housekeeping by ensuring clean floors, clean machines, and other equipment
- Conducting stock counts and following up on stock variances with a view to minimize them
- Consulting with the Engineering team to minimize machine down time and planning for their maintenance.
- Reporting/escalating problems with safety, environment, quality, and food safety management system to Plant Manager and stopping the line if necessary.
- Ensuring proper documentation of all production activities, documenting the same in the SAP/google drive in real- time and producing relevant reports as may be required by management.
Production Operator
Cosmos Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers Limited April 2020 – July 2022
Duties and Responsibilities
- Setting up machines as per standard operating procedures (SOPs), ensuring they are working properly and producing quality product in accordance with the specifications in the batch manufacturing record (BMR).
- Ensuring assigned machines work at full capacity, stocked with the needed materials, and performing in-process periodic checks during manufacturing for output (quality and quantity).
- Logging/recording all data required during the manufacturing process in line with SOPs, batch records, and participating in effective and detailed handover with incoming shift.
- Troubleshooting in case of equipment failure and escalating to production supervisor and maintenance engineers to minimize equipment downtime.
- Performing autonomous maintenance of equipment to prevent machine downtime.
- Identifying and assisting in the Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) plans for process related deviations.
- Conducting all in-process quality checks and collaborating with the in-process quality assurance (IPQA) assistants.
- Documenting all process readings in the batch manufacturing record (BMR).
- Facilitating and cooperating with any Continuous Improvement Program in line with Lean Manufacturing.
- Performing other related duties as assigned to meet departmental and Company objectives.
Field Service Engineer-Air Conditioning Systems
Hotpoint Appliances Limited February 2017-December 2017
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conducting surveys at various sites prior to installation of air conditioning units.
- Servicing and repairing air conditioning units.
- Attending to breakdowns in various sites promptly.
- Installing and commissioning air conditioning units for various clients.
- Advising clients on the best units to purchase in terms of capacity of refrigeration (Btu/hr.)
- Ensuring effective record keeping of all the completed tasks.
Industrial Attachment Del Monte Kenya Limited January 2015-April 2015
Duties and Responsibilities
- Repairing and maintaining tractors and harvesting machines to ensure field operations were conducted as planned.
- Repairing heavy plant engines.
- Repairing and maintaining irrigation pumps.
- Welding and fabricating various machine parts.
- Performing general field service of agricultural machines.
- Participating in the design and fabrication of safety platform for boom sprayer to reduce accidents during chemical addition to the tank.
- Ensuring health and safety procedures were followed by machine operators while using various tools.
Industrial Attachment
New Kenya Cooperative Creameries January 2014 – April 2014
Duties and Responsibilities
- Repairing and maintaining compressors, motors, refrigerators, and air conditioning units.
- Maintaining and operating the fire tube boiler to allow for continuous steam generation.
- Repairing cheese packaging equipment,
- Operating labeling machines, packaging machines and fire tube boiler.
- Maintaining and repairing labeling machines.
