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Assistant Production Manager

Closing: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 

Location: Ruiru

About the role

 BURN is looking for a shift assistant production manager, who will be responsible for overseeing the shift operations, he/she will be responsible for shift deliverables, and training of production operators in the factory. The successful candidate will work closely with the production manager and planning department to raise work orders.

Duties and responsibilities.

• Oversee the Shift Operations.
• Overall responsibility for reporting on shift deliverables and training of production operators in the factory.
• Ensure that stoves are produced in a timely manner and are produced within quality guidelines.
• Support the Production Manager in ensuring that planned quantity of stoves is produced each Shift.
• Raise issues, problems, and breakdowns with the Engineering team as soon as possible and support in timely resolution.
• Work closely with the Production Manager and planning department to raise Work Orders.
• Work closely with other departments to help in quick resolution of matters affecting production.
• Supervise and motivate factory workers.
• Ensure that all factory operators record of daily reporting, trainings and capabilities are up to date.
• Work with HR in dealing with factory workers requests for leave an any other HR related issues
• A large part of an assistant production manager’s job is dealing with people. It is important to treat people with respect and treat others how you would like to be treated yourself.
• Work with department heads to uphold and implement Burn policies and goals.
• Ensure all the safety protocols are adhered to on the factory floor.
• Focus on continuous improvement for safety in the workplace.

Essential

• Similar position in a sheet metal or a busy manufacturing company
• Great people’s skill
• A good communicator
• Problem solver.
• Hands-On.
• Conversant with EHS code and regulation.

Skills desirable

• Sheet metal background.
• Experienced in Microsoft NAV and Microsoft Office.
• Industrial/Mechanical Engineering Degree.

Production Planning Assistant

Job Description

BURN is seeking to hire an assistant production manager to join our organization. The ideal person will are looking for someone who is interested in working in a dynamic, challenging environment, for a company that recognizes and rewards creativity, initiative, and contributions.

• Create production work orders in ERP in line with the weekly & daily production plans.
• Generate respective material requisitions & liaise with inventory for timely raw material issuance to production.
• Countercheck the entries made in production logbooks & confirm they correctly represent what is done on the production floor.
• Ensure all outputs for the respective work orders are transacted in ERP and all material consumptions done as soon as the jobs are completed.
• Update various production planning sheets with the correct daily outputs & consumptions & ensure these always reflect the correct position of what is done on the production floor.
• Do regular appraisals of the numbers in ERP & production planning sheets to ensure they correspond with the parts available on the production floor.
• Any other work assigne

Responsibilities

• Create production work orders in ERP in line with the weekly & daily production plans.
• Generate respective material requisitions & liaise with inventory for timely raw material issuance to production.
• Countercheck the entries made in production logbooks & confirm they correctly represent what is done on the production floor.
• Ensure all outputs for the respective work orders are transacted in ERP and all material consumptions done as soon as the jobs are completed.
• Update various production planning sheets with the correct daily outputs & consumptions & ensure these always reflect the correct position of what is done on the production floor. Do regular appraisals of the numbers in ERP & production planning sheets to ensure they correspond with the parts available on the production floor.
• Any other work assignment.

Head Of Research & Development

Job Description

About the Role

BURN is looking for a Head of Research & Development whose overall responsibility will be to lead BURN’s long-term research department. The successful candidate will lead a team that will pursue, write and administrate grants (mostly responding to RFPs/solicitations), to support 3 key areas:

1. R&D for new technologies.

2. Pilots / field studies to test innovative new products and services.

3. Continuous improvement of products.

Skills and Experience

• 5 – 7 years’ experience in managing grant-funded or leading similar consumer product development programs in African Markets is highly desired.
• Research management.
• Grant writing.
• Grant administration.
• Project management.
• Thrive in a fast-paced creative environment with a culture of experimentation yet value the need to organize and plan.
• Excellent communication skills – unafraid to speak up or take issues head on.
• A technical background is preferred.
• Experience managing a technical team.
• You are a strong communicator, have always the overview over all moving pieces in your team.
• You perceive fast moving targets and changing priorities as a fun exercise, as your proactivity usually makes you faster than them.
• You build strong, fact driven decision making materials with your teams.
• You have tremendous experience in managing diverse teams that might span different time zones.
• You are a product person; a people’s person and you know how to set priorities and coordinate with all stakeholders within and outside of the company. 
• You are not shy to ask questions and are always striving to deliver the best results, considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.

We offer a role with significant responsibility, compensation including benefits matching the level of the candidate and an opportunity to have a needle moving impact on human lives and the environment across Africa.

BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees).

Degree qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for identifying and writing grants that are well aligned with BURN’s mission, vision and capacity.
• Responsible for building and managing their team.
• Ensure that all projects are sufficiently and appropriately resourced and that our recommended project management and analysis approaches are being adhered to.
• To monitor on a day-to-day basis, resources for live projects, supplementing/modifying teams as required, and generally acting in the role of troubleshooter to ensure smooth progress of all projects.
• To take an overview of the management of all live projects, ensuring that relevant meetings take place – initiation, mid-project update, product handling, field, data processing, and data analysis briefings, debrief planning and postmortems. This will involve direct liaison with each department and key personnel across the relevant departments.
• To scrutinize proposed timings for projects and discuss them with the key departments to ensure that projects’ needs are met.
• To keep abreast of outstanding proposals to foresee and plan workload levels.
• Manage the new product development pipeline, including conceiving of new products and improvements of existing products, from discovery of new concepts until handed over to the production team.
• Coordinate and deliver key information into the product development process and manage the boundary conditions according to the agreed strategies. This includes manufacturing requirements, financial analysis, customer needs and product parameters.
• Manage and lead the detailed design of new and existing products, including process development, equipment selection, design for manufacturability, prototyping, lab and durability testing, material selection, etc.

Customer Care Representative – Casual

Job Description

BURN is looking for an exceptional, efficient customer care representative – casual, to fill a parttime role. The successful candidate must have experience in customer-facing tasks such as customer care, direct sales and or client relation management. You will be responsible for conducting customer surveys’, data entry and analysis using Excel, maintaining customer database, identifying areas of improvement, and finding solutions.

Requirements (E – essential, D – desirable):

· E- Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills

. E- Highly organized, punctual, and professional

· E- Proactive attitude and takes initiative to problem solve

· E- Experience in customer-facing tasks (customer care, direct sales, relation management, etc.)

· E- Working knowledge & experience in using Ms. Excel for data analysis and reporting.

· D- Experience in leadership role and/or organizing events

· D- Knowledge of BURN products

Responsibilities

Attend to Customer Service Cases using an SMS-based platform and/or customer care phone line:

· Help customers register product.

· Conduct customer surveys via phone or SMS.

·  Help customers with warranty returns and repairs- sending repair information and directions, liaising with service stations to ensure proper repair.

·Answer customer queries and directing them to proper channels.

·Follow-up with customers to ensure product satisfaction and address any confusion with use.

·Attend to customer messages & calls and respond accordingly.

Maintain Customer Database & SMS platform.

 ·Data entry and organization/cleaning.

·Conduct basic analysis using Ms. Excel on customer care statistics and create simple reports.

· Translate messaging and responses.

·Set-up and modify automated messaging of SMS platform.

Support & System Improvements.

·Support other departments in regard to customers info and service.

·Identify area for improvement and bring issues to the team’s attention as well as helping to

follow-through with solution implementation.

·Help set up new functionality in SMS platform.

BURN Ambassador.

·Always maintain integrity and be a positive ambassador for BURN

·Strive for continuous improvement for our services that we offer our customers

· Maintain an open and receptive attitude when receiving feedback and suggestions

·Continuous improvement for our services and the experience that we offer our customers.

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