Palm Oil Mill Manager at Plantations SOCFINAF Ghana Ltd

PSG is an Oil Palm and Rubber Plantations company located at Daboase in the Wassa East District of the Western Region.  It is a wholly owned subsidiary of SOCFINAF SA  of Luxembourg and has over 2,000 employees.

Job Description

A Job opportunity exists within the SOCFIN GROUP for an Expatriate position of PALM OIL MILL MANAGER.

REPORTS TO:
The position reports to the GENERAL MANAGER ON SITE and HEAD OF INDUSTRY WITHIN THE GROUP’S HEADQUARTERS IN EUROPE.

JOB PURPOSE:
ENSURING THAT HARVESTED PALM FRUITS ARE PROCESSED IN AN EFFICIENT, DYNAMIC AND COST-EFFECTIVE MANNER.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As the Head of the Palm Oil Mill section within the entire Plantations, the main accountabilities of the Palm Oil Mill Manager include but are not limited to the following:

• Technical Management of the mill and its units, including the Laboratory and Workshop.
• Managing and Supervising the Mill Personnel to deliver optimum productivity.
• Managing the acquisition of inputs/spare parts to ensure the required spares and quantities are always available for use.
• Ensuring that the costs of mill operations are always within budget.
• Ensuring that mill personnel at all times are well-trained.
• Carrying out administrative duties and ensuring that reports covering the operations of the mill are accurate and timely.
• Executing any other tasks that may be assigned from time to time by the General Manager on site or the Group’s Head of Industry.

Required Skills or Experience

• Very knowledgeable in modern agro-processing technology.
• Very versatile with mechanics, electricals, hydraulics, pneumatics, boilers, turbines, etc, that are associated with agro-processing plants.
• Minimum 5 – 10 years hands-on working experience in palm oil milling.
• Very good speaker and writer of the English language.
• Fluency in any other foreign language like French and or Portuguese is a plus.
• Easier integration with personnel from other nationalities and or cultural orientation.
• Approachable, Team Player and easy to interact with by all levels of employees.
• A practical person with excellent communication skills.
• Competent, dynamic, efficient and result-oriented.
• Very well organized and a good planner.
• Computer literate.
• Willingness to work for longer hours and under pressure
• Willingness to live and work within the Plantations, which are mostly located in remote/rural areas.
• Minimum educational attainment of a Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or any qualification relevant to the job requirements stated above.
• Applicants should have completed their mandatoryNational Service work.