About the Role

The company is looking to engage the services of a young, energetic, passionate, creative and hardworking individual looking to join the Business Risk Management team as a Legal Assistant. The position will afford successful individuals a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience supporting a busy legal department at the heart of a growing organization. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Preparing documents for Signature on Docusign and responding to queries on the status of approvals on DocuSign
• Managing the administrator account on DocuSign and related activities including adding new templates under instruction by the senior associate
• Updating and maintaining the trackers managed by the Department to ensure timely renewal and termination of third-party contracts among other things
• Filling and organization of the Department’s in-house registry (mostly electronic filing on Dropbox)
• Under the supervision of the senior associate, assist in keeping records of all pending employee and labor relations matters and updating on their status weekly
• Under the supervision of the senior associate, drafting simple contracts and leases to facilitate smooth running of company business in the communities it serves
• Research on legal issues as may be from time to time requested by the senior associate
• Keeping minutes of Departmental meetings and following up with concerned team members of agreed action plans
• Performing any other general office and administrative duties as may be assigned from time to time by the senior associate

Qualifications

• Diploma or Certificate in Law/ Paralegal Studies from a reputable institution
• 1- 2 year experience in similar or related role; in a law firm or a busy legal office.
• Knowledge, relevant practice and understanding of paralegal, administrative and general office experience is desirable
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills is critical
• Must demonstrate a good grip of Microsoft Office applications, Google-Suite, and Dropbox (experience with other remote working tools)
• Previous use of DocuSign will be an added advantage
• Attention to detail
• Must be proactive in their role to foresee needs and challenges and address them or consult
• Supplementary training in legal and/or paralegal work will be an added advantage
• A team player willing to learn, adapt and work with minimum supervision
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• High levels of energy and enthusiasm and ability to work long hours and under pressure
• High level of analytical skills
• High integrity

Application Deadline: 2022-12-02

About the Role

We are looking for an exceptional individual with strong drive and initiative-taking, who’s able to relate to managers at all levels in the organization and coach them in the way they lead their projects and project teams. The Project Management Change Agent should have a strong project management background and be able to implement project management tools and processes. Furthermore, we want her/him to be able to identify opportunities to improve project team collaboration and performance and identify gaps in the existing business processes that could hinder project success.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement & adapt basic project management tools within functional and project teams, with the necessary alignment and buy-in of the department heads and end users
• Developing and implementing processes to improve project delivery 
• Coaching project managers in team leadership (e.g. running meetings, tracking progress, managing conflict)
• Working with project managers to deliver projects 
• Codifying approaches developed to be available for deployment
• Working within a team of change agents across the organization
• Running training sessions on specific topics

Qualifications

• Project management skills and experience as a project manager
• Experience developing/improving business processes
• Coaching and people management skills
• Analytical skills
• Communication skills
• Working knowledge of Project Management tools
• Experience in FMCG would be a plus.

Application Deadline: 2023-1-31

About the Role

The Chief Business Officer is responsible for the financial and operations management of the organization, combining parts of the roles of Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Chief Operating Officer (COO), and Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). Reporting to the CEO, the Chief Business Officer is responsible for successfully executing our strategic plan by ensuring each business unit achieves its goals and objectives and support our expansion into multiple countries. The CBO will manage a diverse set of teams including Finance, Talent, IT, Procurement, Accounting, Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Quality Control, Health & Safety, and Business Risk Management and fosters a customer-focused, success-oriented, accountable environment throughout the entire organization.

Duties and Responsibilities

• As a true business partner to the CEO and Country Leadership Teams, develop and utilize forward-looking, predictive models and activity-based financial analyses to provide timely, accurate, and relevant insight into the organization’s operations & business plans
• Develop tools and systems to provide critical financial and operational information to the CEO and Board of Directors and make actionable recommendations on both strategy and operations.
• Ensure adequate financing to accommodate growth plans by overseeing cash flow and planning and executing future financing rounds.
• Ensuring the company has proper operational systems and financial controls in place for measuring, monitoring, improving the efficiency & effectiveness of all internal processes, including through structured continuous improvement approaches like Six Sigma.
• Lead corporate policy development, implementation, and improvement across all operations as a member of the senior management team.
• Represent the company with financial partners, including financial institutions, funders, auditors, public officials, etc.
• Lead and implement the strategy for talent acquisition, retention, engagement, and organizational culture. 
• Mentor and develop all of the country-level managers reporting to you; managing work allocation, training, problem resolution, performance evaluation, and the building of an effective team dynamic.
• Build teams and infrastructure for efficient and effective operations in other locations within Kenya and other countries as we expand.

Qualifications

The CBO will be a seasoned and mature leader with 10 years of broad finance, operations, and people development experience, with a strong foundation in accounting, talent development, data and technology, and experience gathering and analyzing financial information and making actionable recommendations to senior leadership.The CBO will have the following experience and attributes:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree; MBA preferred. 
• Six Sigma certification or similar experience in operational excellence.
• CPA or similar designation or experience.
• Demonstrable passion for Regen Organics’ mission; a hands-on manager with integrity and a desire to work in a dynamic environment.
• Mature and proactive, with evidence of having worked as a true business partner to the CEO of a multi-divisional organization. 
• Strong analytical skills and experience interpreting a strategic vision into an operational model.
• An effective communicator at all levels in the organization, with strong oral and written skills and a willingness to share information.
• A collaborative and flexible style, with a strong service mentality.

Application Deadline: 2022-12-18

About the Role

Regen Organics is looking for a Process Engineering Intern who will work under a Mechanical Engineer and will be responsible for applying engineering principles and techniques to optimize the production processes in the manufacturing environment to meet organisational objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform hydraulic calculations to determine line sizes, pump specifications, and control valve sizing.
• Perform heat transfer calculations to determine heat exchanger duty requirements and sizing.
• Develop piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) for different processing units, including details such as line sizes, control valves, isolation valves and control logic.
• Participate in and lead a P & ID review session.
• Participate in Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies.
• Create close-out reports for P&ID review sessions and HAZOP sessions.
• Contribute to reviews of vendor documentation and other discipline documents.
• Develop linelists and set hydrotest boundary limits.
• Create operating guidelines and start-up/commissioning procedures.
• Interact with other disciplines and vendors to ensure design accuracy.
• Lead Equipment installation, commissioning, operator training and handover.
• Audit site operations to ensure equipment work instructions have been fully adopted

Qualifications

• An Engineering degree in either Process/Chemical/Mechanicaln or Civil.
• Good understanding of chemical engineering concepts specifically fluid dynamics and heat transfer models
• Experience developing or contributing to control philosophies and operating guidelines
• Experience developing or contributing to the sizing of processing equipment such as pumps, blowers, heat exchangers, piping systems, and control valves
• Detail-oriented with demonstrated capability to analyze processing systems efficiently and rapidly
• Ability to look beyond the most obvious solution to provide engineering designs that are safe, practical, reliable, and cost effective
• A learning mindset and interest in taking on board constructive feedback from senior engineers in order to develop their process engineering expertise while delivering solutions that meet design requirements and stakeholder expectations
• A proactive attitude, with a willingness to get involved and learn by doing
• Ability to communicate clearly in both verbal and written form

Application Deadline: 2022-11-30

About the Role

We are an increasingly sophisticated, highly intricate organization with many moving parts. Sanergy seeks accomplished, driven individuals who will make substantive contributions to the organization.  We currently seek a Mechanical Design Engineer Fellow who will work in our New Technology Commercialization department in our facilities in Kilifi & Kinanie,Athi River

Duties and Responsibilities

• Designing, prototyping, and procuring new equipment 
• Designing and implementing new operational process flows
• Supporting the setup, execution, analysis and design of trials in colony maintenance processes
• Requirements assessment, design, vendor assessment and design refinement of a solids separation unit
• Review of the mechanical works of an existing separator prototype to recommended design improvements
• Process optimisation of solid separation processes with goal of reducing design costs and operational costs
• Interact with other disciplines and vendors to ensure design accuracy
• Contribute to reviews of vendor documentation and other discipline documents
• Development of equipment specification sheets for internal review and vendor engagement
• Create operating guidelines and start-up/commissioning procedure

Qualifications

• Degree qualification in Mechanical engineering, Industrial engineering or related discipline
• Good understanding of mechanical principles relevant to design, fabrication and commissioning of  mechanical equipment 
• Understanding of mechanical vibration principles would be highly beneficial
• Detail-oriented with demonstrated ability to incorporate mechanical requirements into equipment designs
• Ability to look beyond the most obvious solution to provide engineering designs that are safe, practical, reliable, and cost effective
• A learning mindset and interest in working under senior engineers to develop your engineering expertise, all while delivering solutions that meet design requirements and stakeholder expectations
• Ability to communicate clearly in both verbal and written form
• Ability to translate learnings from field work into actionable design and process changes
• Basic knowledge of electrical systems

Application Deadline: 2022-11-30

About the Role

We are an increasingly sophisticated, highly intricate organization with many moving parts. Regen Organics seeks accomplished, driven individuals who will make substantive contributions to the organization. We currently seek an Automotive Maintenance Engineering Associate to join our team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Hands-on maintenance of machinery 
• Provide support in the resolution of breakdowns 
• Develop and update Standard Maintenance Procedures 
• Liaise with the supervisor in the implementation of the problem-solving tools 
• Implement corrective and preventive actions within the allocated timelines 
• Conduct RCA on all breakdowns" 
• Share daily reports on maintenance activities for all assets 
• Ensure all maintenance issues are logged 
• Propose improvements to the manager 
• Calculate and track MTBF and MTTR for all equipment 
• Refine AM and PM schedules to improve equipment reliability" 
• Coordinate with the requesting teams in conducting Preventive Maintenance and resolving Breakdowns ● Coordinate with the requesting teams in conducting operator assessments and training ● Proactively contributing to conflict resolution through open and honest discussions, reporting unresolved conflict to your Supervisor or Talent Partner 
• Maintain a cordial working relationship with teammates" 
• Work with existing vendors within the established relationship 
• Suggest new vendors to the manager or supervisor" 
• Develop a monthly and weekly schedule for operator and technician assessments and training. ● Refine AM and PM schedules to improve equipment reliability 
• Share ideas on how to standardize and improve maintenance data 
• Share ideas on how to improve maintenance processes 
• Implement improvement ideas and share feedback. 
• Escalate in advance when facing blocks. " 
• Keeping track of the maintenance expenses for all assets 
• Ask questions and listen to items escalated by the operators in order to understand issues with the assets
• Provide feedback to operators on usage of assets 
•  Ask for feedback from stakeholders (operators and managers) to improve the maintenance performance"
• Execute tasks within the existing processes and policies 
• Share a report of team failures and learning derived from them

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in Automotive Engineering (or related fields) 
• Minimum 5 years working with tractors, forklifts and heavy commercial vehicles 
• Experience maintaining the following; SAME tractors, Toyota forklifts, Hino trucks, Mitsubishi trucks, Isuzu trucks and Generators (Perkins)

Application Deadline: 2022-12-02