Assistant Estate Manager, Tatu Coffee Estates - Eaagads Limited

Responsibilities:

• Receptive to Farm Level SOP and implement works covering all aspects of growing coffee, harvesting, processing, drying, sorting, storage, and transport, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards
• Ability to identify pest and diseases and escalate or implement timely control measures
• Mobilise workers for field work and to harvest in time
• Follow and implement Safety Standards 100% within boundary of the estate and scope of entire workday including transport outside farm areas
• Implement and maintain stringent quality control systems throughout the production process, guaranteeing the exceptional quality of the final coffee product
• Manage budgets, avoid/control wasteful costs, identify areas for efficiency gains, drive profitability across the coffee estate
• Good control of stocks of chemicals, all farm inputs, coffee stocks and manpower
• Complete daily/weekly/monthly data capture and reporting without errors
• Check and ensure to complete all payment payrolls in time
• Adhere to established environmental sustainability initiatives, including responsible land management, water conservation, and ethical farming practices.
• Manage a high-performing team of estate staff, supervisors, workers, processing team and workshop/drivers/mechanics/sanitation staff
• Foster positive relationships with local communities, government agencies, and other stakeholders within the coffee industry

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Horticulture, Agribusiness
• Minimum of 5+ years of progressive experience in agribusiness management, with at least 3 years of direct experience in coffee production.
• Good knowledge of coffee cultivation, processing techniques, quality standards, and Familiarity with sustainability certification programs is an advantage.
• Good leadership skills with the ability to lead teams, manage daily works, and enable results
• Demonstrate financial management skills, including farm level budgeting, cost control
• Satisfactory verbal and written communication skills, including fluency in English and Swahili
• Good problem-solving skills with a flair to escalate potential future problems well ahead of time to management

Soft Skills

• Mature, pragmatic and flexible approach
• Team player
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Rigorous and organised approach.
• Hands-on, field focused, leading from the front by being present physically where Budget is spent, not in offices