Senior General Maintenance Officer at Uzima Chicken: (Deadline 27 December 2023)

Senior General Maintenance Officer at Uzima Chicken: (Deadline 27 December 2023)

Job title: – Senior General Maintenance Officer

Reports to: – Production Manager

Location: Kigali/Rubirizi, and possible relocation to Uzima production sites

Department: – Production

About the organization

Uzima Chicken Rwanda is a social enterprise focused on making smallholder farmers healthier and wealthier. Uzima Chicken distributes an improved breed chicken that is 4x more productive than local breeds in terms of egg and meat production, while requiring the same level of management and care as the local chicken. With Uzima’s bird, rural households in Rwanda can build income resilience, confidently pay for their children’s school fees, and introduce larger volumes of animal protein into their daily diets.

Uzima Chicken seeks to reach every rural household by 2025 and aims to be the leading smallholder-focused poultry enterprise in East Africa.

Uzima mission: to make smallholder farmers healthier and wealthier

Uzima vision: to reach every farmer; to ensure every child gets an egg per day

Uzima values: these are the core principles that guide how we conduct ourselves to achieve our goals. We must live and breathe them every day.

• Our purpose drives us. All of us at Uzima are bonded by our common purpose – to develop farmers, to reduce child malnutrition, to ensure we leave the world in a better place than we found it.
• Accountability & discipline. We do what we say we’re going to do. If you agree on a deadline with your team, you meet it, or you communicate what challenges you’re facing so we can find a solution.
• Think like an owner. We run the business like we own it. We act in the best interest of the company, because when Uzima is successful, we are all successful.
• Strive for excellence, reject ‘good enough.‘ We strive to deliver the highest quality products. We should be proud of our work.
• Best ideas win. We are all open to debate and discussion, so we can agree on what’s best for the business.
• Customers come first.Without customers, there is no Uzima. To ensure we can serve customers, we have to listen, help and deliver quality products

Job summary

The Senior General Maintenance position is responsible for all maintenance works in the Hatchery and Breeder farm and supervises installations and assembly work done by other technicians and external vendors. The main objective of the position is to ensure effective and efficient work of all Electrical, plumbing, sanitary, machines (Generators, setters, Hatcheries, feed mill, compressors, AC, Chiller, Injector machines, water pumps and Air conditioners), repair of building parts (doors & windows), and wood works in the farm by coordinating of the team and his involvement. The maintenance activity performed with the procedures, schedules and guides given by the manager. He/she communicate with the production in order to make smooth the operation. Then by doing this he/she assure to fulfill the operation requirements to maximize production. These all are done based on maintenance procedures and company policy.

Areas of Responsibility to include (But not Limited)

• Prepare maintenance and repair SOP, procedure, Schedule and adhere for it.
• Follow all rules, procedures and policies of the company for maintenance operation.
• Use all rules and procedures given by the maintenance operation, as long as required.
• Ensure compliances of all work related activities in a fair, ethical, and consistent manner.
• Make effective maintenance of Building Electrical installation, machine maintenance, and equipment maintenance.
• Make effective plumbing work, sanitary work, building parts repair and wood works.
• Coordinates renovation of existing facilities and construction of new facilities as requests raised and order and by self-starter
• Make the down time of machine, equipment, utilities and facilities in an optimum working condition.
• Execute the preventive maintenance and other maintenance activities according the given scheduled.
• Conduct general repairs such as painting, patching walls, security hard wares, hanging shelves and etc….
• Forecasting proper and timely supply of spare parts, components, accessories, materials, consumables and tools with proper inventory control.
• Keep records for utilization of spare parts, material consumed and maintenance records.
• Follow up and supervise daily maintenance works
• Follow up enough water is available at the tankers/ water reservoirs and pump when accordingly,
• Ensure all maintenance activity maintains health and safety, biosecurity, residue and animal welfare programs
• Manage the hatchery maintenance function maximizing throughput of all products
• Maintain hatchery facility, plant and equipment
• Maximize labour utilization and cost control
• Supervising, instructing, training and evaluating of maintenance team
• Responsible for completing all data where applicable for closing work orders daily after delivery to production and their sign for acceptance.
• Implementing weekly preventive maintenance of machines and sending reports to direct supervisor
• Controlling and reporting spare inventory on a weekly basis
• Willing to be on-call and open his phone cell all time including night time in case of Emergency.
• Execute related duties as given by the manager.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrates functional knowledge of Electrical installation system, machine maintenance (Setter and Hatcher machines, Generator, Electrical pumps, Compressors, Injector machines, Cooling systems and Equipment), and repair of plumbing system.
• Demonstrates functional knowledge of the safety precautions of the maintenance works.
• Has skill of Coaching and coordinating maintenance team.
• Ability to meet and deal with team employee, and Internal/External customers.
• Ability to read and understand drawings of Electrical, plumbing and sanitary systems.
• Ability to install, inspect, repair and maintain the electrical installation, plumbing, sanitary works and other related systems of the farm.
• Ability to inspect, operate and maintain the heating, cooling and ventilation system and Generator follow up.
• Has knowledge of tools and material handling properly, and lead the team to follow.
• Ability to understand and carry out instructions.
• Has skill to services Generator, feed mill, Ac/cooler machine and electrical machines.
• Through knowledge of the hazards and corresponding safety precautions necessary for the safe performance of assigned duties.
• Ability to follow maintenance procurers work orders and made records after maintenance executions.
• Physical ability and flexibility to perform duties and responsibilities of the job.
• The candidate must have the flexibility to work weekend, night and holiday shifts

Requirements

1. Academic/Education status

• Bachelor’s Degree

2. Professional/Area of study/

• Electrical Technology
• Electrical Industrial control drive, and in other related fields
• Electrical engineering

3. Experience

• 4 years and above

HOW TO APPLY

Interested candidates should address their applications enclosed with a cover letter, Curriculum vitae, academic documents and other relevant certificates to the Managing Director of UZIMA CHICKEN LTD and delivered in a single PDF document to e-mail: “[email protected]” not later than 27th December, 2023 at 5:00 pm. UZIMA CHICKEN Ltd is an equal opportunity employer, and for the position female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Note:

• The subject of the e-mail should be mentioned “Senior Maintenance officer”
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview

Done at Kigali on 08^th December 2023

The Management of UZIMA CHICKEN LTD