Expires soon UNION BANANIERE AFRICAINE

PLANTATION QUALITY

  • V.I.E.
  • Accra (Accra Metropolis)
  • Master, Bac +5
  • Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering

Job description

A well-established international fruit company is looking to offer the chance to undertake a work-placement to join the team in a position based in Africa, with the Quality Department. Compagnie Fruitiere, a company established in 1939, is the leading grower of fruit in the Africa-Caribbean-Pacific region which has developed into a vertically integrated tropical fruit company, with plantations across West Africa, a fleet of specialised ships, as well as ripening and distribution centres across Europe. A dynamic and growing company with further expansion plans.
Compagnie Fruitiere in Ghana is large grower of tropical fruits and a leading supplier of quality bananas to British supermarkets. Shipping bananas weekly to Britain and the European Market. Compagnie Fruitiere in Ghana specialises in Fairtrade and organic bananas and aims to become a major supplier of organic bananas to the European Market. The Banana plantation, where this placement will be located is 1,200 ha, with 2200 workers, producing just under 50,000 tonnes per year, making it the largest in Ghana and one of the larger banana plantations in Africa.
After an agriculture or food science degree you are looking for a 12 to 24 months first experience and you are open to start your career in Ghana just after. VIE are strategic for us. It is the main source of pre-recruitment of our management talent pool.
The opportunity exists to forge a career in Compagnie Fruitiere in the quality department and beyond. The career could take you in the future in Africa, France or across Europe.
The position will be report directly to the Quality Manager. He/she will support the Quality Manager on:
Tasks and responsibilities for this role would include the following:
Contributing to the enhancement of the quality control function :
- Updating specification notebooks and standardized working methods (pack house workstations) for obtaining a product according to market standards
- Training the teams on these methods
- Monitoring station activities (training and controls)
- Improving information collection tools
- Control of logistics operations
Monitor and improve the system of instrument control / calibration to ensure accuracy of quality checks
Develop tools to analyse the consolidated data from field and packhouse operations, and drive performance
Produce and communicate indicators to other departments to continuously improve quality
Ensure compliance with food standards in pack house
Restructuring the quality department of the pineapple plantation and development of databases and reporting, along the lines of what is done in banana farm
The quality department is responsible for:
Organising, supervising and training a team of quality controllers
Monitoring the quality level of fruits, both from the field and after processing
Communicate to Quality and Sales team in Europe about the expected quality and potential issues
Use the feedback from customers and quality checks on arrival in Europe to implement corrective actions on the plantation
Requirements and qualifications:
Person specification:
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to develop leadership and management skills
- Interpersonal and management skills, ready to cope with responsibilities
- Ability to work as part of a team with colleagues across professional, operational and cultural boundaries
- Ability to identify needs and issues and recommend suitable and pragmatic courses of action and solutions, adopting a risk aware approach
- Good time management and organisational skills with the ability to handle a number of tasks at once and meeting deadlines as required
- Ability to deal with diverse sources of information and form a coherent plan
- Good IT skills including experience of Word, Excel and to interpret databases, and relate daily generated figures with the problems created on the ground.
- Be confident giving Presentations and training sessions to address groups of various sizes, education and linguistic ability.
- French language is a definite advantage
- Please note that this is a field position based on the farm.

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