Job Description
Assistant Field
Manager-1
Job ID: R-41165
Category: Supply
Chain
Location: Mufindi,
Iringa
Main Purpose of The Job
The Assistant Field Manager supports leadership with the
management of staff and day‐to‐day operations for the assigned area of
responsibility. In this role, the individual is accountable to deliver
established goals, utilizes good judgment to assess and escalate situations
when warranted and utilizes knowledge and skills in the area of expertise while
maintaining expected green leaf quality standards. The Assistant Manager must
act as a leader by building constructive relationships and by supporting agriculture
department leadership in developing, setting, and executing department goals
and the strategic plan in accordance with UTT mission statement. Also, he/she
is responsible on people’s safety, wellbeing, and security.
Accountabilities
HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
- Implementation
of Company defined policies allowing the Unit/Department to meet
Occupational Health, Safety, Environmental care and Consumer safety
requirement
- Proactive
identifications of hazards or environmental aspects and putting in place
effective safeguards aiming at eliminating/reduction of accidents
- Check
and Approve SHE returns to include OHS & EPR
- Hold
factory SHE site meetings on monthly basis
- Implement
all aspect of legal and statutory requirement touching OHS and E
- Take
fully responsibilities in ensuring that all third party/contractors are
aware and that they follow the given guard line.
- Plan
for the emergency drill and draw learning and actions out of it
- Overall
responsibility of the management of change MOC (New equipment, new
employee, process change, new product/formulation)
- Draw
up objectives and target, management programmes review, and document.
ESTATE MANAGEMENT
- Manage
Estate Division to the highest agricultural standards and improve productivity
through expansion and sustenance of mechanical harvesting operations by
having best practices of harvesting and post-harvest handling.
- Plan
and oversee day to day operations by supervising hand plucking, harvesting
personnel to ensure acceptable standards of green leaf quality is
harvested and well-handled to the factory.
- Plan
and execute the estate division annual agricultural practice, pruning and
fertilizer application.
- Ensure
the division administration is managed by providing periodical crop forecast,
validation of payroll input/output, payments of employees and the entire
financial expenditure is within the budget.
- Manage
the estate division industrial/employee relations, conduct disciplinary
cases as per the CBA /employment act and company disciplinary procedure.
Enhance good co-existence amongst workers and the neighboring community.
- Manage
the division infrastructure and conservancy to the required standards;
fully embed best practices in Rainforest alliance.
- Ensure
safety policy is implemented and all safety training is conducted to all
sub- staffs and general labor.
- Ensure
all workers are wearing the requires PPEs for the job.
- Deliver
the business targets aligned to Business strategy, jobs to be done (JTBD)
and enhance performance culture through business transformation.
- Interfaces
with many roles e.g., Factories, Finance, HRBP, Unions, Legal, etc.
- Operating
and maintaining the site as a fully functioning and productive all year
round by wise planning of irrigation time, pruning, fertilizing, weeding
practices etc.
- Ensure
that the division is always maintained to the highest possible standards
and that the company infrastructure and associated accessories are
robustly protected and cared for.
- Provide
effective management of staff operating within the division function,
consisting of headmen/women.
- Managing,
distributing, and maintaining the plucking equipment within the division
and reordering new ones from the central store whenever necessary.
- Monitor
the progression of all tasks within the division ensuring all
specifications are met within an agreed time, budget, and quality
requirements
- Comply
with and help enforce standard policies and procedures within the
department relating to sustainability and related tasks
- Review
future new tea development field space requirements, develop and implement
a management plan
- To
carry out any other duty as directed by the line manager in accordance
with the level of the post.
FINANCE AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
·Responsibility for controlling and managing the production
costs, field costs, overhead costs, and total budget; and working with the
estate manager in budget setting in future years
·Ensure that cost effective support and maintenance
arrangements are put in place and regularly reviewed, using internal resources
and external/outsourced contractors where appropriate
·Working with the estate manager and fellow assistants to
implement best value utility arrangements and to reduce costs wherever
possible.
· Anticipate future
developments with the fields, estate infrastructure, plucking accessories in
advance, ensuring that adequate planning and budgetary provision is made for
maintenance and repair works and that continuity of service is optimized
Key Skills
- Crop
Production and Field Operations
- Sourcing
– raw materials of agricultural origin
- Plant
Breeding – tea nurseries
- Infrastructure
Management
- Project
Management/Information Technology
- Industrial
Relations/Employee Relations
Abilities/Qualities
- Being
well-organized and systematic
- Careful,
accountable, responsible and punctual
- A team
player – personable, caring, helpful, reliable and diplomatic
- Honest
and approachable
- Good
personal grooming & personal presentation
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in agriculture general, horticulture,
agronomy, or any equivalent bachelor’s degree in science
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