Job Description
SAFETY OFFICER – GRADE ACFC 6 (1 POST) – ACFC/09/2021/006
Terms of Employment: Permanent and Pensionable
(a) Duties and Responsibilities
i. Ensuring protection of all factory buildings and installations against lightning
through earth resistance measurements within schedule.
ii. Ensuring efficacies of mild steel tanks and pipes by checking the thicknesses for
purposes of performing predictive maintenance to avoid collapse.
iii. Organizing for pest control programs to control malaria infections and other pest
whose effects can impact on food safety negatively.
iv. Managing Occupational incidences through sensitization on use of PPE’s and
providence of 1st Aid facilities.
v. Ensuring compliance to legal requirements in line with Occupational Health and
Safety Act (OSHA) of 2007.
vi. Ensuring regular fire drills, creation of awareness, condition monitoring of
machines and installations so as to ensure both safety and compliance to correct
limits.
vii. Carry out risk assessment prior to issuing permit to work.
viii. Ensure induction of visitors and other stakeholders.
ix. Welding of bulk volume fermenter membrane and
x. Keeping records.
(b) Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
i. Bachelor’s degree in any of the following engineering disciplines: Civil
Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Building Engineering or Industrial
Technology.
ii. Proficiency in computer applications; and
iii. Fulfilled requirements of Chapter Six (6) of the Constitution of Kenya.
(c) Key Competencies and Skills
i. Strong analytical skills.
ii. Strategic and innovative thinking.
iii. Effective communication skills.
iv. Strong interpersonal skills.
Applications including detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), copies of academic and professional certificates and testimonials, names, and addresses of at least three referees, two coloured passport size photos and a copy of National Identity Card should be sent to the undersigned on or before October 01, 2021. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Resident Director & Chief Executive
Agro Chemical & Food Company Limited
P.O Box 18-40107
MUHORONI-KENYA
ACFC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER