Company Info
Large organization
200 + Employees
Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.
Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.
1). Packing Plant Technician
Requisition ID: 7581
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full Time
About the Role
- Role holder is responsible for coordinating and supervise activities in the Packing Plant for the purpose of loading and dispatching Cement in accordance with loading procedures and according to raised invoices.
- Contribute to the best level of performance of plant’s equipment.
Responsibilities
- Implement Lafarge Safety Rules and Regulation in accordance with the Group HSE Standards and Advisories.
- Carry out equipment energy isolation according to LOTOTO procedures
- Monitors the operations and optimizes all aspects of Rotary packer in compliance with the Company Quality Standards and Requirements.
- Supervise the activities of the Contractors and Lafarge Third Party Operators through proper implementation of Lafarge Contractor Safety Management Standards (CSM)
- Monitor Production activities to comply with Group Environmental Standards and maintain good housekeeping at all time
- Supervises and coordinate packing & loading activities in a safe manner- by ensuring proper packing and loading of cement into trucks, bulk tankers and Jumbo bags by following the SOP to ensure that trucks weight is within the tolerance level on shift basis.
- Identify all faults that occur in the cause of operation in their respective shift, reported to services department concern for necessary action, and followed up for quick intervention
- Carry out daily stock count of cement bagged and empty cement bags on shift basis by generating a report for distribution to Production manager, Inventory Manager, Shift Leader, statistics office and other stakeholders for planning.
- Liaises with Shift Coordinator and other Supervisors on the status of different Cement stocks and the need to accelerate production to meet targets and demands.
- Ensure safe working condition of plant and personnel with implementation of Lafarge safety rules and regulation in accordance with the Group HSE standards and advisories.
Qualification & Experience
- OND/HND in Sciences or Engineering or Numerate Sciences.
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in a process industry.
Technical Competencies:
- Understand the process involved and effects at each stage in Cement production from the raw material to finished production.
- Ability to interpret and understand laboratory Cement analysis.
- Ability to operate equipment in the section
- Compiles all Packing Plant reports and handles consignment forms plus other related documents.
- High degree of numeric for maintaining Cement packing statistics as well as stocks
- Ability to motivate and maintain
- Good planning skills
Behavioural Competencies:
- Tack and diplomacy when dealing with customers
- Ability to motivate subordinates in order to achieve required results while maintaining good supervisor-subordinate relationship
- Easy to adopt to new job demands and environment requirements
- Able to work under pressure where necessary in order to produce required results with maximum efficiency
Managerial Competencies:
- Team leadership skill
- Good aptitude for organization and communication
- Result oriented with high decision making capacity/ self confidence
- High level of initiative
- Ability to multitask effectively
- Good aptitude for field work
- Anticipative.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Electrical Planner
Requisition ID: 9159
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full Time
About the Job
- The Electrical Planner is responsible for assisting with the development of reliability-based maintenance strategy, based on preventive and predictive maintenance, to improve the efficiency and productivity of the Plant workforce, service companies and contractors.
- This will be accomplished by providing detailed job plans, including technical specifications, machinery history, parts and tools lists, and safety procedures in a very organized fashion.
- The Planner is also responsible to provide all the necessary information to ensure that all work is completed in a safe, efficient and timely manner and in compliance with environmental requirements.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:
- Electrical Planner is responsible to prepare all planned maintenance that have to be carried out by the Electrical Execution team, service companies or contractors.
- In that role, the Electrical Planner will work closely with the inspectors and the execution team on the following tasks and responsibilities in order to reinforce the day-to-day job preparation & planning:
- Gather pertinent information needed to plan the work orders in the planning stage of the Lotus Notes Work Order System, improve the content and quality of information on the work orders and eventually put them in progress after Methods Engineer validates them.
- Add relevant information to the work orders, as required, to facilitate the comprehension of the execution team.
- Define clearly the scope of work to be performed.
- Develop a detailed job plan with all the work sequences involved to adequately complete the repairs, as well as equipment downtime and man-hours required.
- Develop a tool list specific to the job to be performed.
- Provide a parts list with reference numbers and exact location for every work order and ensure that all required parts are in stock before job scheduling.
- Ensure all technical specifications and special instructions are provided on paper to the Supervisor and craftsmen.
- Determine the cost involved for parts and supplies for each work order.
- Inform the section supervisor/engineer when a job is ready for scheduling.
- Establish and maintain with the supervisors and the stores department, a system for proper storage of pre-works and parts for pending work.
- The incumbent will work with the Storeroom supervisor to update and maintain the equipment parts catalogue, and develop parts catalogues for existing equipment that have none as well as develop, equipment tool list for jobs that require such.
- The Electrical Planner will work with the Storeroom Supervisor to review and update parts min-max.
- The Electrical Planner will be responsible to improve and maintain the equipment files and history (paper and electronic) in conjunction with the draughtsman.
- The Electrical Planner will ensure timely delivery of spare parts that are placed on order by working with the Purchasing officers and making use of the WAPCO tracker database program.
- In collaboration with the Purchasing officers & Storeroom Supervisor, the Electrical Planner will ensure that the inventory and sources of spare parts are consistent with the Lafarge standards, plant equipment reliability and economic constraints. He will also ensure materials and parts conformity upon receipt.
- In order to accomplish the prime objective of the position the Electrical Planner must be versed with the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). The incumbent must have knowledge of the work order tracking system, spare parts catalogue, requisitioning and inventory systems as well as knowledge of the modern software packages available such as Word, Excel, Microsoft Project Scheduler, etc.
- The Electrical Planner will be utilized to supervise some jobs and contractors during annual plant shutdowns.
- Ensure involvement in the implementation and maintenance of integrated management system in the plant.
Requirements
What we are looking for:
- Candidates should possess a University Degree in Electrical Engineering
- 5 years of fieldwork experience in cement industry.
- Computer literacy is essential.
- Good communication skills, ability to work with minimal supervision, resistance to stress and ability to lead employees is required.
- Computer literacy and od working knowledge on use of Microsoft Office Applications is necessary.
Technical Competencies:
- Very conversant with cement plant equipment.
- Good definition of technical standards and applications.
- Correct equipment and corresponding spares specification
Behavioural Competencies:
- Energetic and flare to work unexpected long hours.
- Accurate in specifications.
- Inquisitive and curious.
- Good aptitude for paper and computer work
- Affinity to conclude everydays business
Managerial Competencies:
- Must be able to lead a small group of 10 Staff.
- Coordinate about three activities simultaneously.
- Good estimation of activity duration and execution
- Application of safety regulations to all maintenance.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Process Engineer
Requisition ID: 7578
Location: Mfamosing Plant, Cross River
About the Role
- The Process Engineer leads plant discussions and investigations to improve throughput, efficiency, quality, and environmental performance.
- Through data analysis, field measurements, and conversations with employees are able to diagnose issues and develop solutions to move the plant towards greater performance.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:
- Makes positive contributions to the plant safety activities and initiatives.
- Provides technical support to the plant’s production, quality, and environmental functions. Understands strategies, priorities, and optimization techniques that assist the plant in attainment of plant and company objectives.
- Conduct inspections, measurements and operational assessment for shop assigned to you.
- Follow-up actions / recommendations from findings with the responsible
- Daily evaluates operations, processes, and trends through the use of audits and systematic approach, for example RCAs, Incidence assessment & reporting etc.
- Provides technical support on implementation of new equipment and/or new procedures including training of plant personnel as required. Serves as mentor to CCR Operators in production and other departments.
- Primary to the Process Engineer position is the coordination and participation in improvement of the Plant’s technical capabilities. The Process Engineer’s objectives are to initiate process optimization in collaboration with Quality, Production and Maintenance to ensure maximum and efficient utilization of the plant’s equipment. This position has a requirement of elevating the technical knowledge and practices of all facets of the operation.
- Ensure compliance with internal control procedures – communicating problems in operations, unwarranted deviations from established standards, and violations of policy or law.
- Initiate actions for de-bottlenecking equipment and Processes and engage with stakeholders to close the actions.
- Design and contribute development of new systems, equipment and procedures and propose modifications of existing ones for continuous process improvement. Include economic and operational feasibility studies. Support commissioning and de-bottleneck new installations
- Promote the increased use of AFR (if applicable): provide comprehensive technical expertise to evaluate AFR with respect to its impact on the process; develop and implement solutions to eliminate / reduce impact of AFR on the process operation
- Ensure involvement in the implementation and maintenance of an Integrated management system (IMS) in the plant.
Who You’ll be Working With
Internal:
- Kiln coach, control room supervisors, production supervisor, coordinators, shift chemist and managers, corporate engineers.
- Quality, Production, Maintenance, Environment Departments
External:
List of Direct Reports:
- Process technicians, Industrial trainees/interns
Requirements
What we are looking for:
- Degree in Chemical / Process Engineering
- 5 years’ working experience with at least 3 years in cement Industry.
- Good knowledge of cement manufacturing Process
- Perform the measurements of a basic process: gas flow measurement, false air mapping etc.
- Organize and perform an audit to any one area of a plant: Equipment/gas / thermal/ material balance of a kiln or a mill based on a pre-established model.
- Audit reporting
- Tune a control loop.
- Understand the strategy of an expert system. (HLC)
- Good knowledge of statistical process control methods.
- Good knowledge of project management methods.
- Strong computer expertise in but not limited to: Excel,
- Good knowledge of SAP, TIS, and PACT.
OH&S Competencies:
- Implements OH&S Mission: Ensures alignment of OH&S activities arising from the country OH&S mission.
- Ensures adequate OH&S organization: Ensures relevant actions are taken so that OH&S requirements are met
- Identifies Hazards & Control Risks: Actively manages risks by ensuring that all related control activities are implemented thoroughly
Behavioral competence:
- Ability to work effectively under time pressure, in a demanding environment, while maintaining the highest professional standards. Ability to self-organize, prioritize tasks, take initiatives, and make recommendations while engaging with Senior Leaders.
- Intellectual curiosity and strategic thinking; eagerness to learn, excellent analytical skills, Objective focus, Courage and integrity Intellectual humility, Honesty, Respect.
Leadership and managerial abilities:
- Communication skills (verbally /on paper), teaching ability, listening skills, team spirit,
- Adapting to change and creativity.
Mobility requirements:
- Ability to work in multi-national environment, Readiness to travel, Flexibility.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: