Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 29 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose of Role
The purpose of this role is to is to ensure the effective management/performance of 300-400 Ha Tea growth and ensure the Division is managed to highest agriculture standards.

Accountabilities
• Responsible for Divisional workforce planning
• Daily allocation of duty to estate/division labour (both Upper Tier and Lower Tier) in appropriate manner and ensures that the correct tasks & quality of work are allocated to all employees daily.
• Responsible for developing standards nursery bets for future tea seedlings.
• Ensures that proper land preparation, planting, Infilling, plucking, tasking, and maintenance of tea are done as per set policy and budget provisions.
• Ensure proper establishment and maintenance of good tea development system.
• Ensure proper establishment and maintenance of good plucking table by plucking at correct times and heights (near future)
• Regularly checks the estate/division beacons and boundaries to maintain integrity of property ownership-in the division.
• Ensures that Tea bush productivity is increased without harming the health and long-term potential of the bush.
• Carries out the best agronomic practise in soil conservation, crop protection, Nutrition, and new planting.
• Maintain optimum plant population by ensuring successful infilling operation is done.
• Maintains a system of accounting and control of pests and diseases and reporting any new occurrences to the MD/Estate Manager.
• Ensures that soil sampling and analysis is carried out on tea development areas prior to planting.
• Daily management of 3P and contractors involved in tea development in his division.
• Maintains estate tea and indigenous tree nurseries to the required standards.
• Work in hand with Company Engineer to carry out road maintenance, drainage, and its proper use.
• Check the accuracy of payroll input documents from the Division.
• Work in hand with AHRBP to prepare job descriptions, appraisals for staff reporting directly as per agreed work plan/targets.
• Induct, train and ensure implementation of safety and statutory standards for all contractors in the division.
Administration
• Checks and verifies labor pay records regularly.
• Maintains and update the weeding book.
• Ensures that all office registers including the Overtime sheets, transport log sheets, history cards inventory cards are always all up to date (near future)
• Maintain detailed records of all in-filling, and field sanitation.
• Reconciles the muster sheet with the labor distribution sheet & payroll outputs.
• Issues register, and regularly check all tools and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) ensuring their proper maintenance. (Monthly-Tools check).
• Responsible that all reports are made accurately and submitted on time.
• Be responsible for the proper administration of the general stores (near future)
• In consultation with the AHRBP, ensure proper management of leave plans at the divisional level.
• Enforce all company policies including but not limited to, Safety, Environment, Welfare and
• Code of Business principles.
• Perform any other duty relevant for smooth operation of the division.
Industrial/Employee relations
• Manages industrial/employee relations at the Division and reports any incidences that may flout good relations.
• In consultation with the AHRBP, ensure discipline are to the required standards for all employees in the division.
• Participates in the counselling of employees.
• Oversea the implementation of ETRL Personnel related policies including but not limited to the Worker’s Council Agreement, HR Policy Manual, and ensure they are always adhered to.
Safety and Environment
• Implement health and safety policy and Safe operating procedures in the division.
• Work in hand with the Forestry Officer to maintains the riparian strip forest in accordance with the environmental policy.
• Ensures that all divisional employees are inducted on Health and Safety policies as soon as they are taken on employment.
• Ensures that Safety, Health and Environment policies and rules are adhered to in all operations.
• Attends Unit Health and Safety committee meetings and document agreed actions.

Qualifications & Experience Required
• Graduate in Agriculture, Horticulture, Agricultural Engineering or Bachelor of Science or any other relevant experience.
• Minimum 3-5 Years experience in Tea Industry
• Experience in team management.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership skills.
• Agronomic skills
• Sourcing – raw materials of agricultural origin
• Experience in Plant Breeding – tea nurseries.
• Project Management skills
• Experience in Industrial Relations/Employee Relations
• Asset Investment and Care

Leadership Behavior
Should meet expectations on the Lipton Teas and Infusions Rwanda Limited behaviors relevant to the work level.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested candidates who meet the above qualification should send their application and detailed CV to Rwanda.hiring@lipton.com  on before 29th June 2024.
In the subject of the email, quote the job title as per the advertisement.
No Manual Application shall be accepted.
Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.

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