• Leading and managing all manufacturing engineering, tooling maintenance, expansion activities, and new products and process introduction activities.
• Ensuring that BURN’s engineering global standards are followed and adhered to within the engineering organization.
• Collaborating with various engineering departments at BURN DRC and Kenya's head office to ensure that BURN is meeting its goals.

Duties and responsibilities:

• • Leading and managing the new product introduction projects.
  • Leading and managing the facility and assembly layouts implementation projects which includes managing the in-house and the outsourced supplies and services related to the projects.
  • Facility Layout review and continuous improvements – in conjunction with the head of operations excellence, the global facilities manager, and the CTO.
  • Leading and managing the new process development processes projects – in conjunction with the head of operations excellence, the head of manufacturing, and the CTO.
  • Leading and managing all engineering change implementation projects.
  • Process Flow review and continuous improvements.
  • Managing, and updating the capacity and utilization models.
  • Leading line Balancing, cost reduction, and time studies activities.
  • Leading the technical validation and identifying the technical SOW for suppliers, vendors, and contractors.
  • Ensuring the implementation, and compliance with BURN’s global standards and SOPs related to the engineering activities.
• • Supervise, train, and direct an engineering team responsible for manufacturing engineering, and production tooling maintenance.

Skills and Experience:

• Graduated from Mechanical/Industrial engineering school.
• 8-10 years of experience in manufacturing, at least 5 years in sheet metal factories and/or manual product assembly lines.
• At least 3 years of experience in managing an engineering team.
• Conversant with CAD software, e.g., Solidworks, and AutoCAD.
• Capable of reading engineering drawings and a good understanding of tolerances and allowances.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Fluent in French and English - The role is open to both locals and ex-pats who are fluent in both French and English
• Fluency in the Lingala language is preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma green belt holders are preferred.
• PMP-certified candidates are preferred.

Desired Character:

• Problem solver.
• Good listener.
• Self-confident.
• Excellent communicator.
• Proactive.
• Team player.