JAGGERY SUPERVISOR

  • Bura Tana, Kenya
  • Full-Time
  • On-Site

Job Description:

1. Production Operations Management: Supervise and coordinate daily jaggery production activities from sugarcane crushing, juice extraction, clarification, boiling, concentration, moulding, cooling, packaging, and storage to ensure production targets, product quality, and operational efficiency are consistently achieved.

2. Production Planning & Performance Monitoring: Implement daily production plans, allocate manpower, monitor production schedules, and track key operational indicators including juice extraction efficiency, product yield, equipment utilization, fuel consumption, downtime, and production losses while initiating corrective actions to improve productivity.

3. Equipment Operation & Maintenance Coordination: Monitor the safe operation of cane crushers, furnaces, boiling pans, moulding equipment, and ancillary machinery. Coordinate routine inspections, preventive maintenance, breakdown repairs, and equipment cleaning to minimize downtime and maintain operational reliability.

4. Quality Assurance & Food Safety Compliance: Ensure all production activities comply with approved quality standards, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), sanitation procedures, and food safety requirements. Work closely with the Quality Assurance Officer to address quality deviations and implement corrective actions.

5. Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Compliance: Promote a safe working environment by enforcing occupational health and safety procedures, ensuring proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE), conducting toolbox talks, reporting incidents and near misses, and ensuring safe operation of processing equipment while supporting environmentally responsible waste management practices.

6. Resource Utilization & Cost Control: Optimize the utilization of sugarcane, bagasse, water, labour, consumables, and processing materials to minimize waste, improve energy efficiency, reduce production costs, and maximize product recovery.

7. Team Leadership & Staff Development: Supervise, train, mentor, and motivate production operators and processing staff on standard operating procedures, equipment operation, food safety, workplace hygiene, quality standards, and emergency response procedures to enhance individual performance and team productivity.

8. Documentation & Reporting: Maintain accurate production records, shift reports, equipment inspection logs, maintenance requests, production losses, quality observations, and HSE documentation. Prepare daily and weekly operational reports and submit timely recommendations for process improvement.