IWS Manager - BAT Kenya – Agri Business - Nairobi, Kenya
(2023-11)
- Leading Strategy Development and Deployment: Growing, Supply Chain and Processing/Production.
- Ensuring department objectives/KPIs are met by providing Daily, Weekly, Monthly accurate performance analysis and reviews for Continuous Improvements.
- Leading in RCAs on existing losses (people, systems, processes, equipment and product), by applying relevant problem-solving tools.
- Validation effectiveness of corrective, preventive and countermeasures actions to sustain results and improvements.
- Leading Annual Loss analysis sessions using VSMs & LDMs to drive productivity savings
- Ensuring integration of all Pillars and Departments through gives and gets.
- Workforce capability building and qualifications to drive continuous improvements.
- Responsible for Factory IWS/TPM/Lean Manufacturing Phase progression.
- Site Standards (EHS, Quality, Production, Engineering & Maintenance) SOPS compliance and reviews.
- Identifying training needs and developing training programs to build capabilities to drive loss elimination.
- Servant leadership through coaching and developing others.
- 3rd party performance management and reviews.
- Budgeting and reviews – Zero Based Budgeting concept adherence.
- Visual and virtual Factory Scope
- Ensured E2E integration and use of Problem Solving Tools. 100% use of Problem Solving Tools to address end to end supply chain losses.
- Loss analysis in Agri Business Department Yielding 2.0mn GBP, 1.1mn GBP and LE 1.5mn GBP Productivity savings in 2024, 2025 and 2026 respectively.
- IWS Phase 2: Successful Pre-assessment making Ke Agri Business main assessment ready.
- Benchmark OEE >95%
- Zero serious consumer/customer complaints for past 5 years
- Year on year Zero serious factory incidents and accidents for through entrenched Incident Elimination DMS on the shop floor
Leaf Planner - BAT Kenya and BAT South Africa - Kenya and South Africa
(2022-08 - 2023-02)
- Ensured that Leaf and CRT requirement/Supplies necessary to meet approved stock durations and production for BAT Kenya and South Africa factories are achieved.
- New Sourcing Model taking consideration of COMESA trading block saving +3mn GBP in 2023 for Kenya through in-depth analysis
- Leaf re-deployment releasing +2mn GBP in working capital for Kenya
Warehouse Management - BAT Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya
(2021-09 - 2021-12)
- Acceleration of Logistics 3PL transition and onboarding.
- Standardized Training evaluation matrix and step-up card for all warehouse operatives creating one central document for 3PL evaluation on training effectiveness and capability building.
- Champion in BAT Global audit Covering warehouse inbound and outbound processes, GRN completeness and POD standards.
Production Services and Process Lead - BAT Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya
(2021-01 - 2023-11)
- Responsible for Factory Production Planning to deliver OTIF.
- Ensured Materials and Inventory Management Accuracy with zero stock outs.
- Performance Monitoring and accurate Reporting.
- Leading Loss Elimination and Continuous Improvements.
- In charge of Low Spend/Value Sourcing to optimize costs.
- Supplier reviews and management.
- Leading business reviews.
- Ensuring 100% compliance EHS & Security Control environment.
- Capability building within teams to identify and address losses.
- Support Maintenance planning, execution and evaluation.
- Simplifying Factory Reports through use of Power-BI, enhancing accuracy and timeliness.
- Napster project champion improving output by >1% with a benefit of >Kes Mn 100.
- Local fabrication of Critical Spares saving >Kes Mn 10
- AM deployment achieving Zero Stop Shifts >78% through Equipment Ownership Model and Self-Sufficient Teams
Production Shift Manager - BAT Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya
(2017-01 - 2020-12)
- Planning, Coordinating and managing all Production and Engineering/Maintenance, related activities and resources to deliver expected demand in time in full in right quality and in a safe manner through astute leadership.
- Analyzing, Documenting and presenting shift and factory production results to senior management and other stakeholders.
- Scheduling and performing regular training and coaching teams on safety, quality, and process improvements to drive productivity.
- Leading annual maintenance and Engineering projects, both Capex and Opex.
- Stakeholder Relationship Management (both internal and external).
- Department SOPs (EHS, Quality, Production, Engineering & Maintenance) reviews and compliance adherence enforcement.
- Team member ISO 9001, 2015 Certification.
- Led Yield improvement initiatives, improving lamina (tobacco) yield from 62.4% to 66%.
- Initiated Weekly customer feedback at the floor, improving customer relationship and reducing customer complaints by 90%.
Production Coordinator - BAT Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya
(2015 - 2017)
- Provided departments' leadership teams through provision of timely, concise reports and analyses of factory performance to enable strategic planning, decision making and general management.
- Preparing and maintaining production plans.
- Identifying factory KPI performance gaps and leading RCAs for countermeasure.
- Packing materials management and planning
- Processes Mapping, SOPs development and reviews and enforcement.
- Overall Factory Production plans development and execution.
- Working with a supplier to customize and supply materials hence exhausting obsoletes and eliminating over specifications, savings >Kes Mn 10
Production Supervisor - BAT Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya
(2008 - 2016)
- Operated and maintained processing equipment to meet customer production, processing, and quality targets in a safe manner by optimizing the provided resources.
- Self-Directed Work Team Leader Responsible for team members crewing.
- Scheduling and maintenance of production machines.
- Supervision of contractors to ensure OTIF factory delivery service in compliance with safety and quality standards.
- Team leader/project leader during Feed control upgrade, Fishburne press upgrade, new proctor installation projects seeing improvements in throughput from average 6t/h to 7.5t/h, packed moisture standard deviation from 0.4 to 0.2 and ability to pack consistently average of 25cases/hour up from 16cases/hour.
Trainee Technical Operator - BAT Kenya and BAT Zimbabwe - Kenya and Zimbabwe
(2006 - 2007)
- Trained in operating, planning, and performing maintenance on tobacco processing equipment.
- Experienced in working principles of tobacco processing and related or similar equipment.
- Familiarization in key quality, safety, costs and labor aspects of production and engineering in tobacco.
- Developing critical parameters of equipment leading to standardized settings.
