eTalent is recruiting a Technical Manager for one of its clients Job purpose :The Technical Manager:- Guarantees the manufacturing of bread improvers and packing of dry yeasts, in accordance with customer requirements (quality, food safety, lead time).- Optimizes production costs and industrial equipment while complying with safety regulations, staff working conditions and environmental standards.Key area of responsibilities :Production Management : - Establishes daily production forecasts based on quantitative production targets.- Organizes production orders.- Guarantees the availability, conformity and safety of manufactured products.- Ensures and controls the monitoring of external services, including the providers of maintenance, metrological services for scales and pest control.- Ensures the traceability of the entire chain, from raw materials to the final product.- Guarantees compliance with Good Hygiene Practices and the cleaning plan.- Develops dashboards for monitoring production, finished products and raw materials and analyses them regularly,- Ensures the monitoring of the consumption of ingredients in compliance with the technical ratios established in the budget and investigates the causes of any discrepancies. Implements corrective actions.Maintenance : - Ensures that industrial equipment and buildings remain in good working conditions.- Validates the maintenance intervention plans carried out through an external company.- Monitors cost of maintenance.Management :- Supervises and animates production, maintenance team (briefing meetings, validate production planning...).- Participates in recruitment, support and training, conducts annual interviews of the production team.- Validates the production team organization (daily, weekly, monthly) propose by team leaders.- Releases information on the field and in meetings with operators in terms of quality, safety and results.- Makes a feedback of team wishes concerning internal mobility, professional development, training and professional project.- Reports to the General Manager the team functioning (in reference to the internal regulations, calling into question the company reputation or the achievement of the fixed objectives).- Manages the process engineer, maintenance responsible, production team leaders (Annual interview, feed backs, salary review,….).Investment/Budget : - Proposes and presents to the General Manager technical investment projects for the improvement of production processes and organization.- Proposes the operating budget (production, maintenance) and monitors it within the limit of the allocated amount.- Implements the selected projects, in liaison with the MEA Industrial Department.Reporting :- Ensures the feedback of data and comments for the month-end closing (production, safety, quality, purchase etc.) and upon request of its hierarchy.- Set-up a weekly reporting to the General Manager including Production Plan, RM Stocks, Team planning, etc.Lean : - Proposes and studies improvement actions (quality, food safety, productivity, reliability, health and safety on site).Quality, Health, and Safety :- Implement safety culture within the production team and workshop in direct collaboration with the QHSE manager.- Ensuring required standards of health and safety are always maintained in the production area.- Following up a Health & Safety Reporting with KPI’s.- Following up the Site security with the external company.- Guarantying the availability of the results of controls, measurements and tests.- Being involved in the choice of raw materials suppliers.- Ensuring that product recipes are in accordance with the formulas.- Ensuring that non-conformities and customer complaints are dealt with.Knowledge & Education levelEducation :- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in food processing/ agro-industrial technology or a similar field.- Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in management or business administration or similar field is a bonus.- Knowledge on bakery products and competitorsRequired level of experience :- Minimum 5-7 years’ experience in production or industry.- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in management.Competences : Soft skills:- Professional leadership.- Problem analysis and problem solver.- Teambuilder, team worker.- Time-management ability, result oriented.- Communication and interpersonal skills.- Attention to detail.- Flexible and willing to learn.- Autonomous, can work under low supervision.Competences :- Good computer skills: Office 365, ERP of the company.- Know how to develop monitoring dashboards and KPIs.- Familiar with project management.- Knowldege in quality culture, safety culture, lean culture.- Team management (recruitment, AI, labour law, planning, etc...).- Using the equipment and tools in your workshop, applying the rules of food safety and hygiene.- Fluent in Arabic, French and English.