Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensuring protection of all factory buildings and installations against lightning through earth resistance measurements within schedule.
• Ensure efficacies of mild steel tanks and pipes by checking the thickness for purposes of performing predictive maintenance to avoid collapse.
• Organizing for pest control programs to control malaria infections and other pests whose effects can impact on food safety negatively.
• Managing occupational incidences through sensitization on use of PPE’s and providence of 1st aid facilities.
• Ensuring compliance to legal requirements in line with occupation Health and Safety Act (OSHA) of 2007.
• Ensuring regular fire drills, creation of awareness, condition monitoring of machines and installations so as to ensure both safety and compliance to correct limits.
• Carry out risk assessment prior to issuing permit to work.
• Ensure induction of visitors and other stakeholders.
• Welding of bulk volume fermenter membrane and
• Keeping records.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in any of the following engineering disciplines: Instrumentation and Control Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Manufacturing Engineering; Building Engineering or Industrial Technology.
• Proficiency in computer application; and
• Fulfilled requirements of Chapter Six (6) of the Constitution of Kenya.

Key Competencies and Skills

• Strong analytical skills.
• Strategic and innovative thinking.
• Effective communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skill.