Production Assistant - Kenyan Originals

At Savannah Brands we want to use the awesome produce in Africa to create authentic beverage products through our brand‘Kenyan Originals’.
Based in Kenya, Kenyan Originals is a variety of African craft beverages that include alcoholic fruit ciders, tonics and ice teas.
We are looking for entrepreneurs in the making. Specifically we need a resilient and enthusiastic production assistant to support the production manager in making our delicious craft products
General Job Information
Job Title: Production Assistant for Savannah Brands Company
Company: Savannah Brands Company KE
Reports to: Production Manager for Savannah Brands
Purpose of the Job
The production assistants role will be focused on supporting the production manager on the efficient management of the production schedule, process flows and implementing quality standards. The production assistant is often rolling up their sleeves and getting involved in a large part of the process flow as well.

Responsibilities

Job Content
Planning
Executing on the production schedules shared by the production manager aligned to sales forecast requirements

selecting, ordering and purchasing materials within required lead times

Quality
ensuring that health and safety regulations are met

work with lab expert and production manager to help deliver HAAP

Logging of all key compliance metrics

Production In Action
Getting involved in all parts of the process – fruit chopping, packaging,
labelling
be able to overseeing production processes if production manager offsite

re-negotiating timescales or schedules as necessary

supervising the work of casuals

liaising with maintenance resource to repair production equipment swiftly and avoid downtime.

Work with production manager to ensure maximum consistency across all batches

Reporting
Report on inventory and quality control on a weekly and monthly basis to production manager and head of operations

Competencies
Reliable, Results-Driven, Independent, Ambitious, Detail Orientated, Organised
Qualifications & Requirements:
Ideally 2 years production experience, food science background, English and Kiswahili

Job Requirements
Required education
: Bachelor's degree

Required relevant work experience
: 2 years

Required languages:
Swahili (Spoken: fluent | Written: fluent)English (Spoken: fluent | Written: fluent),
Mandatory attachments
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