Senior Miller

Job Description

Responsible for efficient daily milling activities to assure operations are optimized. The primary activities of this position include the operation of the milling process, prioritizing and assigning proactive and reactive milling maintenance, troubleshooting milling issues and maintaining quality product output. The role also includes activities like repairing day planning, procuring needed milling materials, controlling spare parts inventory for rolls, sifters, purifiers, and other milling equipment. This is a people management position and requires managing hands-on training for new and existing millers, ensuring best practice execution and performing work quality checks. A keen understanding of costs and a business acumen to ensure profitability is critical for the position.

Key Deliverables

Manufacturing

• Maximize milling efficiency in the plant daily by focusing on adjustment and operation of the mill.
• Execute production planning which is given by Head/Chief miller.
• Maintain extraction as given by the management.
• Maintain quality as per parameter.
• Troubleshoot equipment, optimize the mill and solve flow problems.
• Document production reports and shift reports including process and maintenance issues.
• Report all operational downtimes to the Head/Chief Miller.

Strategic Effectiveness

Hygiene and Improvement

• • Perform and monitor all sanitations duties as assigned and ensure hygiene personnel on shift perform assigned cleaning duties.
  • Ensure full compliance with all organization, regulatory, statutory, safety rules, GMP, QMS, FSMS, 5S requirement.
  • Ensure shop floor area is free of weevils and monitor frequent cleaning of workstations and eliminate all dark spots in the system.
  • Ensures all cleaning schedules and compliance records, 100%.
  • Compliance ratings of all Hygiene, GMP, OHS, EMS, and 5S audits and requirements.

Operational Effectiveness

Safety

• ZERO Accidents (LTA)
• 250mg max particulate discharge to atmosphere
• Compliance to Daily Pep talk, workplace inspection and Gemba work.
• Minimum of 20 safety reports monthly.

Key Deliverables

Cost

• • Reduce PM waste to a minimum of 0.5% monthly
  • Control and minimize operational and overhead cost within the section.
  • Departmental budgeting and accountability by identifying, managing and prioritizing mill operations capital project portfolio.

Organizational Effectiveness

• Vendor management, contracts and cost control for routine services like cleaning, refuse disposal, gardening, and other routine services
• Discuss the costs and performance with external contractors to ensure cheap yet quality service, explore innovative approaches to improve delivery.
• Ensure perimeter and yard areas are well maintained, build an aesthetically pleasing workplace
• Maintain and administer all personnel records and systems relating to employees (excluding records of sickness, absenteeism and holidays, recorded in the general office)
• Coordinate with managers to ensure the safekeeping of all company agreements and financial instruments
• Encourage excellent communication across plant workplace through team briefing, formal and informal discussions. Use multi-channel communication for better outcomes.
• Coordinate with managers to identify personnel training needs. Actively promote training and personal development on site
• Exhibit a flexible approach to working, explore new possibilities.
• Performance of other management tasks may be required for the wellbeing and advancement of the business.

Requirements

• B.Sc. Engineering/Food Science.
• Minimum of 4 years’ hands-on experience in wheat milling.
• The candidate should have proven experience in production, milling operations role in flour/feed products, and managed large independent operations 
• Excellent people management skills and should be able to lead a diversified team of different nationalities and skillsets.
• Communicate and interface with all levels of the organization and external agencies/contacts including statutory bodies
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple activities concurrently (Multitasking)
• Creativity/ Self Initiative, Teamwork, Communications Skills and Leadership.
• NABIMS, Diploma in Milling from a recognized Milling School.