Nyasha Mutsakadzi Chiwawa
Moshi
Summary
Diligent Food Technologist with comprehensive experience in overseeing factory operations and ensuring production efficiency. Known for successfully managing teams and streamlining processes to enhance productivity. Demonstrated ability in problem-solving and resource management.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Factory Manager
African Vegetables Limited
08.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: African Vegetables Company Ltd. (AVL) is a canning factory and farm in Moshi, Tanzania, owned by Dutch holding JAMAEL Food Group. The company grows and produces green beans in glass jars and export them to Europe via its sister company Baltussen in the Netherlands.
- To oversee and optimize the entire production process by planning, managing resources, ensuring quality standards, and leading the production team.
- Production Planning: Oversee the entire production process by developing effective production plans and schedules to ensure timely and efficient operations.
- Cost Efficiency: Ensure production activities are carried out in a cost-effective manner without compromising on quality.
- Quality Assurance: Guarantee that all products are produced on time, meet required standards, and are of high quality.
- Resource Management: Determine the necessary human and material resources to meet production targets.
- Time Management: Develop and maintain realistic job timelines to ensure project deadlines are met.
- Quality Standards: Establish, communicate, and uphold quality standards across all production stages.
- Process Monitoring: Continuously monitor production activities and make adjustments to schedules and processes as needed.
- Equipment Management: Select, maintain, and ensure the proper functioning of machinery and equipment.
- Quality Control: Monitor product quality and enforce quality control programs to maintain standards.
- Policy Implementation: Collaborate with management to enforce company policies and achieve organizational goals.
- Health & Safety: Ensure all safety guidelines and regulations are strictly followed to maintain a safe working environment.
- Team Leadership: Supervise, guide, and motivate the production team to ensure optimal performance.
- Performance Evaluation: Conduct regular reviews of worker performance to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
- Training & Development: Recognize training needs and facilitate continuous skill development for staff.
- African Vegetables Company Ltd. (AVL) is a canning factory and farm in Moshi, Tanzania, owned by Dutch holding JAMAEL Food Group. The company grows and produces green beans in glass jars and export them to Europe via its sister company Baltussen in the Netherlands.
- Successfully introduced new product line of cherry pepper to the existing canning line.
Operations Manager
National Foods – Groceries (Pvt) Ltd
10.2020 - 07.2022
- Company Overview: National Foods (Pvt) LTD is a food company that manufactures and distributes a diversified portfolio of branded FMCG products to the consumer mass market.
- Effective administration of the category operations to ensure attainment of company goals and policy.
- Relationship management with toll partners canned soups & vegetables, baked bean, Jams and peanut butter.
- Management of production, logistic, procurement, sales and supply pipelines.
- Growing categories and looking for new opportunities.
- National Foods (Pvt) LTD is a food company that manufactures and distributes a diversified portfolio of branded FMCG products to the consumer mass market.
- Successfully addressed aflatoxin quality challenge with peanut butter.
- Increased volumes and product quality for peanut butter, jam and baked beans by improving factory operations at toll suppliers.
- Introduced new canned range of products (Tomato & Onion Mix, Chopped & Peeled Tomatoes, Tomato Puree and Apricot Jam).
- Currently working on capex proposals for new peanut butter line, Jam line and Baked beans line.
Plant Manager
Cairns Foods (Pvt) Ltd
02.2017 - 09.2020
- Company Overview: Cairns foods (Pvt) LTD is a food company that produces a wide variety of canned fruits and vegetables, condiments, groceries, chips and snacks and wines.
- Effective administration of the plant operations to ensure attainment of company goals and policy.
- Manages and plans all factory activities to ensure targets are met as per budget/order fill.
- Manages all plant activities to ensure quality targets are met as per quality targets.
- Ensures good manufacturing and hygiene practices are maintained by the plant to ensure compliance to set factory hygiene procedures.
- Ensures that the plant and equipment comply to all mandatory legislative procedures and policies to ensure required levels of capacity utilization are achieved.
- Manages all departmental activities and processes to ensure each department operates within their set departmental objectives.
- Prepares consolidated operational weekly and monthly reports for submission to Manufacturing Executive to enable business performance review and decision making.
- Manages resource and assets of the plant to ensure efficient to effective utilization.
- Ensures adequate security is provided and managed for safe keeping of assets and resources of the plant.
- Ensure compliance of the plant to company procedures and policies.
- Provide leadership support and motivate staff towards attainment of company goals.
- Cairns foods (Pvt) LTD is a food company that produces a wide variety of canned fruits and vegetables, condiments, groceries, chips and snacks and wines.
- Doubled capacity at the plant by re-arranging operations (Improved output & reduced costs).
- Procurement and installation of a new automated canning line (2019).
- Peas plant resuscitation for canning of peas (2019).
- Tomato processing plant resuscitation for conversion of fresh tomatoes to Juice (2018).
- Have improved and maintained top brands Cashel Valley Baked Beans and Sun Jam as top brands in Zimbabwe in their categories.
Factory Manager
Chegutu Canners (Pvt) Ltd
09.2013 - 01.2017
- Company Overview: Olivine Industries (Pvt) LTD is the largest producer of Oil based products margarines, oils, soap and candles and through its subsidiary Chegutu Canners (Pvt) Ltd produces canned products such as soups, veges, tomatoes, baked beans and also produce condiments and cordials.
- Effective administration of the factory operations to ensure attainment of company goals and policy.
- Manages and plans all factory activities to ensure targets are met as per budget/order fill.
- Manages all plant activities to ensure quality targets are met as per quality targets.
- Ensures good manufacturing and hygiene practices are maintained by the plant to ensure compliance to set factory hygiene procedures.
- Ensures that the plant and equipment comply to all mandatory legislative procedures and policies to ensure required levels of capacity utilization are achieved.
- Manages all departmental activities and processes to ensure each department operates within their set departmental objectives.
- Prepares consolidated operational weekly and monthly reports for submission to General Manager to enable business performance review and decision making.
- Manages resource and assets of the plant to ensure efficient to effective utilization.
- Ensures adequate security is provided and managed for safe keeping of assets and resources of the plant.
- Manage and coordinate inventory control of receipts, deliveries, and storage of goods between the plant, olivine head office and service providers.
- Ensure compliance of the plant to company procedures and policies.
- Provide leadership support and motivate staff towards attainment of company goals.
- Olivine Industries (Pvt) LTD is the largest producer of Oil based products margarines, oils, soap and candles and through its subsidiary Chegutu Canners (Pvt) Ltd produces canned products such as soups, veges, tomatoes, baked beans and also produce condiments and cordials.
- ISO 9001:2008 Certification of Chegutu Canners (2010).
- Procurement and installation of a new automated canning line.
- Toll manufacturing arrangements which boosted capacity utilization of the factory.
- Introduction of new product – Olivine Tomato Sauce.
- Successfully solved paneling problem of barley water orange bottles by altering process parameters.
- Successfully improved baked beans quality to through process capability study that resulted in altering process condition.
Senior Production Controller
Dairibord Holdings - Lyons
09.2008 - 04.2009
- Company Overview: Dairibord Zimbabwe Limited is the largest producer of milk products in Zimbabwe. Through subsidiaries produces condiments, cordials, teas, coffee, ready to drinks and nutritious foods for both the export and domestic market.
- Production planning, scheduling, and coordination of all process lines activities.
- Ensuring that raw materials, processes, equipment, and products confirm to specified Quality, Safety and Environmental Standards always.
- Daily raw and packaging material utilization tracking and analysis to ensure adherence to utilization yield standards and ensuring immediate corrective action procedures to address anomalies.
- Operational management of time, labor, machinery, and materials in production environment to ensure efficiency and above 95% productivity of available productive time.
- Stock management (safety, security, movement, and utilization; reconciliation) of production floor stocks.
- Subordinating effectively, Quantum of production, Waste reduction, Quality Control, Environmental pollution control, Hygiene maintenance and House keeping.
- Ensuring adherence to Procedures and Work Instructions as contained in ISO 9001-2000 QMS and ISO 14001-2004 EMS.
- SAP Business Analysts for PP (Production Planning) for Lyons subsidiary in charge of trouble shooting all technical and operational system problems.
- Good knowledge and effective utilization of SAP in modules; Materials Management (MM) and Production Planning (PP).
- Interfacing with Quality management (QM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Sales and Distribution (SD) modules in solving day to day operational problems in SAP.
- Conducting training sessions for operatives in all facets of production key areas (productivity, hygiene, safety, quality).
- Preparation of weekly, monthly, and yearly consolidated production budgets.
- Preparation and compilation of all production reports (daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reports).
- Dairibord Zimbabwe Limited is the largest producer of milk products in Zimbabwe. Through subsidiaries produces condiments, cordials, teas, coffee, ready to drinks and nutritious foods for both the export and domestic market.
- Implementation of HACCP and training (2008).
- Introduction of Total Quality Management principles to operatives (2007).
- Introduction of Quality Circles Teams per factory to improve process performance (2007).
- Process capability studies that resulted in upward revision in productivity targets for all products (2006-2007).
- Process performance modifications of all production lines that resulted in above 95% productivity (2007).
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree - Food Science and Technology
University of Zimbabwe
Harare - Zimbabwe10.2004
Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) -
University of Gloucestershire
04.2025
3 A’ Levels -
Howard High School
Chiweshe - Zimbabwe01.2000
Skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Good business management skills
- Self-starter and able to work within a team
- Good knowledge of the Factories and Works Act
- Microsoft Projects, MS Word, Excell, Powerpoint
- SAP, SAGE
- Manufacturing technologies
- Industrial safety
- Machine operation
- Waste minimization
- Manufacturing operations
- Customer focus
Accomplishments
- Successfully commissioned a new canning line at AVL (2024) to enable production of canned products (In metal cans) to the existing product portfolio. of green beans in glass jars.
- Introduced a new product line of Cherry Peppers to the range of products produced at AVL i.e. Cherry fruits in liqour as well as diced cherries and cherry pepper pulp.
- Collaborated with team in the improving green beans volume in the 2024 season the
- Achieved extension of IFS certification scope by introducing pasteurization in addition to sterilization for cherry pepper and pineapple production tasks.
- Achieved increased volumes (40% average increase) for peanut butter/baked beans and jams through effectively helping with improving efficiencies and good partnerships at toll manufacturers.
- Introduced a new canned range of products to National Foods (Zimbabwe) i.e. Tomato & Onion Mix, Chopped & Peeled tomatoes, Tomato Puree and Apricot after securing a toll contract with a South African company (Giant Canning)
- Resolved product issue afflatoxin in peanut butter through improving production process at toll partner plant operations (Golden Foods - Zimbabwe).
- Resolved product issue mould in jams through enhancing product operations at African Preserves - Zimbabwe.
- Achieved 100% increase in volumes at Cairns Foods - Zimbabwe by introducing a double shift and removal of obstacles that hindered operation of a double shift .
- Achieved commissioning of a new canning line through effectively helping with capex justifications which helped improve volumes, efficiencies and quality at Cairns Foods-Zimbabwe.
- Resuscitated a obsolete peas processing plant back to operational capacity and went on to process fresh canned peas product for Cairns Foods - Zimbabwe.
- Achieved ISO 9001:2008 certfication through effectively helping with certification of Olivine Industries - Zimbabwe
- Achieved commissioning of a new canning line at Olivine Industries to improve operations.
- Introduced a new sauce product - Olivine tomato sauce brand at Olivine Industries.
- Resolved product issue in Olivine baked beans through process capability studies.
- Resolved product panelling issue of HDPE bottles which were hot filled issue through process enhancements at Olivine Industries.
- Collaborated with team to introduce lean sigma in the development of process operations to improve output and minimize waste at Dairiboard - Zimbabwe.
- Achieved HACCP certification of Dairibord Company (Zimbabwe) by leading the certification team.
Languages
English
Shona
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 12/25/80
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Zimbabwean
- Marital Status: Married
Professional Courses
- Lean 6 Sigma – Green Belt, SIRDC, 2019
- HACCP, SIRDC, 2016
- Food Science and Technology Professional Certificate, DZL/HIT, 2008
Hobbies and Interests
- Playing Table tennis
- Chess
- Reading
Timeline
Factory Manager
African Vegetables Limited
08.2023 - Current
Operations Manager
National Foods – Groceries (Pvt) Ltd
10.2020 - 07.2022
Plant Manager
Cairns Foods (Pvt) Ltd
02.2017 - 09.2020
Factory Manager
Chegutu Canners (Pvt) Ltd
09.2013 - 01.2017
Senior Production Controller
Dairibord Holdings - Lyons
09.2008 - 04.2009
Bachelor of Science Degree - Food Science and Technology
University of Zimbabwe
Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) -
University of Gloucestershire
3 A’ Levels -
Howard High School
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