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Ref: OP065-144
Job description / Role
Pack House Manager - Vegetables - Kenya
Millar Cameron is an international recruitment agency focusing on placing excellent professionals in mid- to senior level positions in the agricultural and forestry sectors. We are currently representing a leading vegetable production company in Kenya and have been provided with an opportunity for an outstanding professional to join this fantastic company.
Our client is looking for a pack house / production manager to be based in the northern region of Kenya. This position is with a fantastic company that is experiencing a huge amount of growth and who predominantly provide fresh vegetables to the European market. As such, knowledge of vegetable handling practices are beneficial to your application!
Responsibilities
- Management of the pack house operations including all pack house staff and operations.
- Provide weekly/monthly and annual reports to the General Manager and Logistics Director.
- Building and implementing best practice policies and principles.
- Develop and train a team of pack house staff.
- Assist in the expansion of the operations.
If this opportunity is of interest to you, please send apply now.
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Requirements
- Must have 10 years experience in fresh or perishable pack houses.
- Must have excellent management experience
- Preferably have experience in the in the region or similar locations.
- Must have must have excellent communication skill and speak fluent English.
About the Company
Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.
Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.
Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.