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