Section Manager (Specialty Ingredients)

Oleo-Fats Inc. (OFI); Quezon City; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Oleo-Fats Inc. (OFI) in Metro Manila leads precision manufacturing of specialty ingredients. The Section Manager oversees daily operations of an assigned production section to ensure efficient, safe, and timely production of high-quality products.

You will develop weekly production plans, ensure staffing levels, uphold 5S, GMP, HACCP, and TPM standards, and drive continuous improvements while controlling waste and costs.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten (10) years of managerial experience in manufacturing.
• Demonstrated effective leadership at the extended leadership team level with a represented workforce.
• Strong health and safety focus, systems thinking, and effective communication skills.
• Experience operating at site leadership level including handling on- and off-site emergency situations, and crisis response.
• Lead or play major role in change management including implementation of organizational and work processes in a 24/7 environment.
• Experience with Lean 6 Sigma, OEE, efficiency computations and related metrics.
• Experience with meat processing or vegetable oil processing preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and experience with external stakeholder relations.
• Ability to work effectively across businesses and functions upwards, laterally and downwards.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Strong communication and listening skills.
• Proactive at managing relationships.

Responsibilities

• Oversees daily activities in all Specialty Ingredients lines.
• Formulate weekly production plans and implement established system and procedures.
• Ensure that the different SI Lines are staffed with the right number of skilled workers.
• Maintain optimum production process conditions.
• Increase and maintain quality consciousness of staff and workers.
• Evaluate the disposition of non-conforming products.
• Make performance reports and related paperwork for production.
• Initiate improvements in systems and procedures affecting SI lines.
• Prevent and control waste in raw materials, supplies, energy, manpower and overhead cost.
• Analyze variances of actual versus standard cost and lead corrective actions.
• Carry out personnel policies and enforce rules and regulations.
• Ensure staff are properly trained.
• Assess staff performance and take corrective action as required.
• Implement safety policies and formulate specific safety standards and practices in the work center.
• Identify safety and fire hazards and housekeeping problems and take corrective actions.
• Investigate causes of accidents and take recurrence-prevention actions.
• Represent the production section in 5S, GMP, HACCP, TPM, SAFETY and shop floor safety teams as assigned.
• Perform other duties that may be assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Health and safety

Communication

Coaching & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Safety management

Tools

Lean 6 Sigma

OEE

Job description

Job Summary

Section Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of an assigned production section to ensure the effficient, safe, and timely manufacturing of high-quality food products. This role ensures production targets are achieved while maintaining compliance with food safety standards, quality requirements, company policies and regulatory guidelines.

Job Description

• Oversees the daily activities in all Specialty Ingredients lines.

• Formulate weekly production plans and implement/established system and procedures.

• Ensure that the different SI Line are manned with the right number of skilled workers.

• Maintain optimum production processes conditions

• Increase and maintain quality consciousness of staffs and workers.

• Evaluate the disposition of non-conforming products

• Make performance report and other paper work related to production.

• Initiate improvements in the system and procedures affecting the different SI lines.

• To prevent and control his work centre's waste in raw materials, supplies, energy, manpower and overhead cost

• Analyze variances of actual versus standard cost and lead the formulation of corrective actions.

• Carry out personnel policies and enforce rules and regulation

• Ensures that staffs and workers are properly trained.

• To access the performance of staff in his unit and take corrective action as required.

• To implement safety policy and formulate specific safety standards and practices in his work center

• To identify safety and fire hazards and housekeeping problems and take corrective actions.

• Investigate causes of accidents and take action to prevent recurrence.

• Representative of his production section in 5S, GMP, HACCP, TPM, SAFETY and shop floor safety team as assigned

• Perform other duties that maybe assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum ten (10) years of Managerial experience in Manufacturing with significant exposure to refining or chemical operations, including technical, operations and/or maintenance assignments.

• Demonstrated effective leadership experience at the extended leadership team level and with a represented workforce

• Demonstrated strong health and safety focus, systems thinking skills, management systems skills and effective communication skills

• Experience operating at site leadership team level including handling on and off-site emergency situations, and crisis response.

• Lead or play major role in significant change management including implementation of organizational, and work process changes in a 24/7 environment.

• Experience with Line Standards, OEE, efficiency computations and the like.

• Experience with Manning standards, utilization computations and the like.

• Experience with Lean 6 Sigma preferred.

• Experience with Meat processing or Vegetable Oil processing preferred.

• Excellent communication skills and experience of external stakeholder relations.

• Ability to work effectively across businesses and functions upwards, laterally and downwards.

• Strong Coaching and Mentoring Skills

• Strong Communication and Listening Skills

• Proactive at Managing Relationships