🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ Lafarge Africa Plc – 4 Positions

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.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Inventory Coordinator
2.) Finance Transformation and Investor Relations Manager
3.) Maintenance Coordinator
4.) Mechanical Inspector

Job Title: Inventory Coordinator

Location: Opebi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary

• Day to day management of Engineering stores stock levels, along with monthly / quarterly/annually stock taking and analysis of the same along with Raw materials.
• Assist local teams in management of Satellite stores, to minimize downtime and create value for the company.
• Work in conjunction with the maintenance & procurement teams to ensure all incoming requisitions are processed and filled within agreed timetables and provide feedback to the same on vendor’s performance and quality of materials supplied.
• Ensure adequate stock Levels for items with longer replenishment cycle with coordinated engagements with production and procurement teams. Also using Economic Order Quantity models to demonstrate accuracy of stock levels.
• Avoid excessive stock of items with low utilization rates. Raise early warning alarms for Potential risk on SLOB items and take preventive steps to mitigate.
• Complete and analyze Engineering stores / Raw materials stock reviews on a quarterly & Annual basis and close out with local teams.

Responsibilities
Safety:

• Ensure full compliance of the stores with Lafarge HSE standards.
• Carry out regular Boots on Ground inspections and ensure all issues are closed out in a timely manner.
• Act as a role model to peers and subordinates with regards to safety management and behaviours.

Administration and Inventory management:

• Ensure changes in lead times for critical spares, are investigated and where necessary stock levels are modified to prevent exposure.
• Ensure all reconditioned / repaired items are put back into stock at repair value.
• Identification and management of Redundant / Obsolete items held and working with stakeholders to sell on, repurpose and or dispose of the same.
• Ensure compliance at all stages with the companies purchasing procedures.

Stock Management:

• Monitor Weekly / Monthly stock usage levels and act to preserve minimum levels, as required, identify areas of concern to management.
• In cases where stock requirements change either on a companywide, Hub or plant basis work with teams to redistribute existing spares before reordering.
• Ensure all stock items have a relevant MDM number and assigned storage location in the stores.
• Ensure all stock is appropriately rotated, to reduce loss.
• Manage Inventory accuracy through monitoring of daily warehouse activities, cycle counts, stock-takes and audit of same to verify results.
• Manage Stock Control: the self-assured receipt, storage, retrieval, transferring; document recording and data entry into the system
• Monitor Intercompany transaction (Cement) and ensure stock invoiced against the business aligns with the right consumption. Reports for management decision where there are anomaly.
• Documented monthly monitoring of critical spares and modifications of the same based on actual use at site level, upcoming projects and major maintenance works, availability in the market place and current status of imports to Nigeria.

Purchase requisitions:

• Carry out random checks on the PR’s and set up / manage a KPI identifying supplier performance against target dates. Act on non-compliances to improve performance / raise performance issues further up the management chain.
• Work with the Project & Maintenance coordinators to balance requirements for Central and Hub stocks

Stock taking:

• Support the A&C controller in stock taking activities across the business
• Ensure that templates are supplied to all locations identifying the requirements of the periodic stock check and that all team members are aware of the requirements.
• Act upon findings of the stock take and presents a summary of any financial impacts and any planned improvements to management within 3 working days.
• Ensure there are robust systems to cover management of waste materials in the plants and hubs, covering those items with a resale value (Tyres, Oil. Batteries etc).

Reporting and analysis:

• Prepare periodic reports to assess the effectiveness of stock management levels and actions taken to improve performance
• Prepare KPI’s based on Critical spares, Supplier performance and Waste management, any other item that the business requires.
• EOQ and Re-order level reports for critical spares This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive and the job holder may be required to perform duties outside of this as operationally required

Who you'll be working with
List of direct reports:

• Stores Officer
• Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:
• The incumbent interacts regularly with Operations Coordinators, Maintenance Coordinator, Procurement and Projects & PMR Coordinator and Production & Inventory Officer

Key Performance Indicators:

• Working capital tied up in stores
• Obsolete stock removal
• Age profile of spares in the stores not exceeding 2 years
• Management of waste products in the stores
• PR to LPO timescale
• LPO – to In Hand timescale

Responsibilities

• Degree in Engineering or Social Sciences
• Certification in supply chain management will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience running commercial / Industrial stores
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Strong computer Skills especially Excel, word, powerpoint and IT tools such as SAP
• Ability to prioritize with excellent time management skills
• Good attention to detail
• Good interpersonal skills
• Strong team player
• Adaptable
• Tact and tolerant
• Ability to work well under pressure and adhere to set deadlines
• Resilient and Motivated
• Excellent management skills and ability to organize and plan effectively to meet both short and long range goals and objectives.
• Ability to manage multiple project plans successfully and simultaneously.
• Ability to motivate individuals and teams

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Finance Transformation and Investor Relations Manager

Location: Opebi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary

• The job holder is responsible for driving the development, implementation, and tracking of strategic initiatives at Lafarge Africa Plc as agreed with EXCOM. This includes annual strategy presentations, defining key performance indicators (KPIs), market research, and translating strategy into Medium-Term Plans (MTP).
• The role involves working with the Functional Directors and/or their representatives to drive their respective transformation agendas and provide updates to the Operations Finance Director/ExCom.
• The job holder is also responsible for managing investor relations activities to ensure Investors; current and potential; have an accurate account of company affair while overseeing special projects as required.

Responsibilities
Strategy & Research Development:

• Lead the efforts for development of the annual strategy presentation of Lafarge Africa Plc reflective of the current business direction, across the 5 pillars of Growth, Decarbonization, Products & Solution, Operational Efficiency and People. Coordinating across all business functions to develop and consolidate the business strategy while ensuring timely submission to the Group.
• Defining and working with stakeholders across functions to establish meaningful metrics that align with the strategic plans, and. ensuring Lafarge Africa preserves its deserved market share, healthy net sales, profitability, strengthened Logistics capability, stable production and improved sustainability.
• Conducting extensive market research to gather critical insights about the industry, competition, consumer behaviors, emerging trends and operating environment to steer and guide key business decisions.
• Provide relevant industry research news, related events, and publication summaries to Executive Management.
• Translate the Strategy into Medium-Term Plan (MTP); Financials and non-financial KPIs; while ensuring this is submitted on time and accurately.
• Maintaining a valuation model for the business to ensure there are no impairment risks in view.
• Execution
• Maintain a tracker of the separate strategic imperatives and identified KPIs and reporting on it monthly across different levels of the organization.
• Collaborating with Functional Leadership teams to ensure delivery and execution of the strategic initiatives through continuous engagement and dedicated sessions to discuss progress and align next steps.
• Hold a quarterly companywide review session on Strategy Implementation progress with EXCOM and Functional Leaders across the business.
• Assessing key business decisions, projects and transactions to check alignment with Strategic plan.
• Working with the Functional Directors and/or their representatives to drive their respective transformation as aligned to achieve the delivery of the Strategy

Special Project:

• Collaborate across all business functions to ensure prompt execution and delivery of “Special Projects” as defined by the Operations Finance Director.

Digital Finance Transformation:

• Creating a digital transformation map across the finance functions by working with all Finance Heads of Department and IT to define scope and evaluate types of solutions required.
• Drive implementation of the agreed transformation map across all functions, amending the map as required and reporting on the progress monthly. Hands-on implementation of the solution and localizing solution to ensure agile and continuous implementation process.
• Drive the digital transformation of the Finance function in conjunction with the Finance Leadership Team as the requirement for Finance has radically evolved over the last years. With the trend moving away from daily operations and repetitive functions to value management and strategic steering of the business which is made only possible through digital transformation of repetitive processes and report generation. iv. Build a density of skilled Finance professional across all functions to ensure continued success of the digital transformation project.

Investors Relations:

• Prepare presentations ahead of earnings releases, of Analyst calls, communications for Investment Analysts, Investors and regulators.
• Developing and maintaining annual Company Investor relations plan.
• Act as point person for credit proposals and deals in market, including responding effectively to questions from Investors and analysts.
• Quarterly, Half-year and Yearly Benchmark review of Lafarge versus competition (Financial & Non-Financial) to identify areas where Lafarge is doing better than competition as well as key improvement areas. Developing action plans for validation/implementation
•  Support the production of annual reports to ensure it accurately communicates the company affairs to the Investing Public.
• Provide regular feedback to the CFO/CEO on Investor perception of the organization

Who you'll be working with
Internal:

• EXCOM, Finance Leadership, Finance Business partners, Functional Leads across other functions and other internal stakeholders

External:

• Investment analysts, Creditors and Service Providers.

Key Performance Indicators 

• Timely development and submission of Strategy and MTP document.
• Execution of Strategic initiatives
• Delivery on “Special Projects”
• Achievement of agreed Finance Transformation map
• Improvement in quality and speed of Finance reports and business
• Improved stakeholder confidence reflected in Analysts’ consensus expectation of company

Requirements

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or related field with a Finance Post graduate qualification being an added advantage
• Minimum of 10 years experience with at least 3 years driving Strategy development and implementation. Experience in multi-national companies is an added advantage.
• English as a working Language
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI, SQL and other Digital skills. Good knowledge SAP and SAP FC is a plus.
• Experience in multinational and multi-cultural environments
• Self-driven and motivated to go the extra mile
• Effective time management, planning and organization skills
• Passion for people development
• Distinctive analytical skills
• Project management skills
• Leadership and managerial abilities
• Mobility requirements: Office environment with occasional travels

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Maintenance Coordinator

Requisition ID: 6118
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun

About the Job

• The role holder is requred to ensure effective Preventive Maintenance Management program is established and sustained in order to ensure availability and reliability of the equipment, promote the Lafarge (Holcim) maintenance processes, ensuring application of maintenance procedures, methods and best practices.

What you'll be doing

• Train and coach his team on preventive maintenance and maintenance routines.
• Manage preventive maintenance team, define the missions and objectives, carry out their performance reviews, promote the quality of the work, motivate his personnel, and facilitate communication and relationships (regular department meetings, reports to the hierarchy).
• Ensure the permanent update of the personal skills, develop and implement a training plan for his team.
• Provide daily added value execution ‘job plans’ to boost the effectiveness of execution crew.
• Prepares the plant maintenance budgets ensuring technical justification of maintenance operations; based on inspection and equipment history; including elaboration and control of the maintenance budget, ensuring planning and follow-up of costs; perform monthly gap analysis (actual vs. budget) and ensure technical justification for maintenance major operations.
• Participate in the 5-year plant development (investment) plan; prepare maintenance CAPEX, where necessary and follow up on approvals.
• Contribute to sourcing and purchasing of CAPEX and third party services: identify needs, provide technical requirements, support tendering, follow up service execution and commissioning, provide input for supplier qualification and evaluation.
• Contribute to NWC optimization by identifying critical parts (based on risk assessment and implementation of preventive maintenance routines on critical equipment’s) and establishing optimal stock levels of spare parts (through FMEA)
• Define equipment and component replacement strategy based on systematic risk evaluation.
• Promote the maintenance management system, ensuring application of maintenance practices; through the Reliability Committee, drive cross functional analysis of incidents and maintenance performance, implementing the action plans to improve both reliability and maintenance practices.
• Ensure planning and scheduling of maintenance operations, looking for the optimum use of resources, equipment availability and maintenance cost; coordinate with Head of Mechanical / Electrical departments, schedule and prepare weekly mechanical and electrical maintenance programs.
• Maintains and updates the preventive maintenance program and its master plan (especially inspection and lubrication programs), ensuring quality and relevance as well as its implementation.
• Schedule and prepare major shutdowns, inspection and lubrication programs; ensuring effective co-ordination with other departments.
• Monitors the implementation and execution of the preventive maintenance tasks and procedures.
• Ensure good working conditions and safety for maintenance operations; perform monthly plant risk analysis to determine the potential operational risk that can affect performance.
• Investigates repetitive problems and initiates preventive or predictive maintenance procedures. Support in coordinating reliability committee meetings for all plant sections.
• In collaboration with the production, inspectors, execution and planning engineer, prepare the plant weekly mechanical and electrical maintenance programs.
• Interface with other support function e.g. procurement, inventory, and Finance to achieve the plant target’s.
• Control lubrication and condition monitoring tasks of equipment and installations to identify needs of maintenance actions and reduce risks of unplanned downtime.
• Maintains equipment history and documentation; keep library updated and ensure equipment documentation is permanently updated “as built
• Ensures the utilization of feedback from inspection as the driver for maintenance operations.
• Ensure the utilization of feedback from inspection as the driver for maintenance operations.
• Collect and handle all the work requests and check for accuracy of technical information.
• Manage maintenance work order backlog.
• Ensure quality of technical specifications for spares and sub-contracted work
• Coordinates and supports OEM technical team during shutdowns and other specific installation activities.
• Liaise with OEM for technical support when required.
• Respect MAC-SAP standard; follow up weekly MAC-SAP targets (KPIs).
• Tracks maintenance KPI and compliance.
• Tracks plant TIS weekly/ month reports, compliance and efficiency.
• Tracks Production Patroller’s daily WBI reports, compliance and efficiency.

Who You'll be Working With
Key interfaces, Stakeholders and Relationships:

• Maintenance Inspector, Maintenance Planner, Execution Engineers (Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Automation), Production Coordinator, Patrollers, Lubrication, Workshop, Utility, Procurement, Inventory, Finance.

Key Performance Indicators

• Zero accident for staff and contractors within Preventive Maintenance department.
• Achieve and maintain 90% availability of the main equipment (Cement Mills and Packers).
• 100% Compliance to Inspection Program.
• OCR of 0.85 for Lubrication Activities.
• 100% Achievement of Inventory value target as set by Industrial/Finance.
• The completeness and accuracy of the equipment files and history. And to keep current the Equipment Parts Catalogue on each piece of existing equipment and develop parts lists for new equipment installations.

Requirements
Professional competencies:

• B.Eng in Mechanical, Electrical and any other Engineering related field plus 5-7 years of work experience in Cement manufacturing

Behavioural and/or managerial competencies:

• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent communications skills
• Computer literacy is essential
• Result driven (reliability, cost)
• Attention to detail, accuracy and precision
• Good aptitude/Field work
• Ability to prioritise actions
• Leadership capabilities (people management skills)
• Ability to work with a cross functional team
• Curious, inquisitive, attention to details
• Accurate, meticulous, attention to cleanliness
• Able to take initiative based on sound problem solving skills

Technical Competencies:

• Good knowledge of the technical details of cement plant.
• Good knowledge on the operating principles of the key plant equipment.
• Strong problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills
• In-depth knowledge of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Techniques
• Knowledge of safety laws and regulations
• Proficiency in use of computer and data processing packages (Ms Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and symbols
• Proficiency in the use of AutoCAD software, ability to produce engineering sketches and drawings.
• Ability to coordinate the preventive maintenance functions.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Mechanical Inspector

Requisition ID:  6119
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun

About the Job

• The primary objective of the Mechanical Inspector is to monitor equipment condition on a continuous basis and analyze trends in order to ascertain the required maintenance interventions (mechanical, electrical, mobile equipment) necessary to maximize equipment reliability, performance and life expectancy, at the lowest possible cost, while maintaining the production functions.

Responsibilities
What you'll be doing:

• Take a lead in the enforcement of Lafarge safety rules and guidelines through Visual Felt Leadership (VFL) while ensuring adherence by Maintenance teams.
• Ensure the planned inspection of all plant equipment and initiate work orders based on inspection results, including safety checks. In case of anomaly, performs first analysis and defines priorities for each action.
• Monitor and co-ordinate condition predictors, for all critical equipment.
• Coach and develop other maintenance practitioners involved in Inspection and Execution functions.
• Liaise with production personnel regarding operating procedures, which have an impact on equipment.
• Performs follow-up inspections of new installations or repaired equipment and verifies tolerances in critical issues to assure compliance to acceptance standards and the PPM Guidelines.
• Follow-up and update preventive maintenance schedule.
• Validate and update equipment specification files and history sheet
• Evaluate and improve the preventive maintenance job plans (from supplier’s recommendation if existing), create and update the corresponding inspection job plans, in coordination with the planner
• Ensure systematic review, application and optimization of lubrication program.
• Contribute to the analysis of failures and problems, recommending corrective actions.
• Participate actively in troubleshooting equipment chronic problems and come up with effective solutions
• Participate in the maintenance on-call program
• The Inspector communicates regularly with the operations personnel to gain information on any problem or concerns they may have about equipment and the way it is affecting the process
• The Inspector generates work requests for all tasks identified in the inspection route and brings to the attention of the planner those that are urgent.
• Analysis of data collected, completed work orders, and process data in order to initiate appropriate maintenance work orders, which include a detailed scope of work.
• Active role toward cost budgeting, cost forecasting and control of department expenditures.
• Comply with EMS Methods Instrumentation activities
• Ensure involvement in the implementation and maintenance of integrated management system in the plant

Resources:
Human Dimension:

• Lubrication Technicians Planners and Execution Engineers.

Organisation Dimension:

• Report to Methods Manager
• Interface with the following: Mechanical, Methods Electrical, Automation, Safety and Stores departments.
• The Methods Manager: To receive objectives & directives, analyze results and correct Possible anomalies.
• The Maintenance execution (Mechanical and Automation/Instrumentation): for equipment’s repairs and reception.
• Method: to request work and repairs to be done.
• Safety Officer: To liaise for accident prevention and inform about any problem that may occur on Clinker plant. Security: to inform and solve security problems.
• External bodies: PHCN, raw material, bricks and other production supplier

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Must be a Certified Mechanical Inspector.
• Ability to coordinate the inspection, preventive, breakdown maintenance.
• Good planning skills.
• Commitment to the highest standards of safe work habits
• Good knowledge of safety laws and regulations.
• Good Coaching Skill.
• Very good written and verbal communications skills –
• Level of education: Degree or equivalent in any engineering discipline (Mechanical Engineering as main subjects).
• 4/5 years postgraduate experience.

Technical Competencies:

• Good knowledge of Inspection and execution functions.
•  Proficient in PPM systems both in theory and in practice.
• Able to take initiative based on sound problem solving skills.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Good interpersonal relationship
• Demonstrated leadership skills via work ethics
• Ability to delegate and motivate, fairness, etc
• Result oriented

Managerial Competencies:

• Team leadership skill
• Good aptitude for organization and communication
• Result oriented with high decision making capacity/ self-confidence
• High level of initiative Anticipative

Application Closing Date
Not Specified

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online