Location: Roo Bay, Homabay

We are seeking a highly driven and results-oriented Assistant Manager – Lake Logistics to lead critical farm operations and logistics functions. This role is responsible for ensuring the efficient management of Harvesting, Boats and Distribution, Boat Maintenance, and Net Fabrication operations, while driving operational excellence, resource optimization, and team performance. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering seamless logistics, maintaining high operational standards, and supporting the continued growth of the business.

Key Responsibilities

1. Boat Maintenance and Distribution
   ▪ Oversee our day-to-day Lake Logistics Operations and general maintenance, ensuring optimal distribution models and regular maintenance schedules.
   ▪ Develop and implement strategies to improve distribution efficiency and productivity by developing new processes or procedures, identifying, and resolving operational issues such as downtime.
   ▪ Set and monitor distribution KPIs, and making necessary adjustments to ensure that these KPIs are met or exceeded.
   ▪ Implement health and safety protocols for the boat and distribution team.
2. Net Washing, Fabrication, and Inspection
   ▪ Oversee day-to-day net washing, fabrication, and Inspection, by working closely with the supervisors to ensure targets are achieved and exceeded (both quality and quantity).
   ▪ Develop and implement strategies to optimize the use of resources, minimize costs, and maximize efficiency. You will also collaborate with Lake Aqua to ensure all Net needs are satisfied and aligned with the overall goals and objectives of the teams and organization.
   ▪ Keep good reconciliation of nets movement and handling with good understanding of requirement impact.
3. Fish Harvesting
   ▪ Oversee day-to-day harvesting operations ensuring optimal timing and efficient utilization of resources.
   ▪ Ensure compliance with protocol for handling harvested fish and other resources such as sein nets, protective nets, among others.
   ▪ Optimizing processes including deployment of tools to simplify the harvesting process.
   ▪ Make informed decisions regarding targets and KPIs.
   ▪ Participate in harvest planning meetings to understand priority for the week.
   ▪ Ensure set targets are met and escalate challenges from time to time for immediate action.
   ▪ Follow up on priority closure of cages to facilitate re-stocking
   ▪ Play a pro-active role in ensuring that sufficient resources are allocated for successful fish harvest and evacuation (sinkers removal, collection boats etc)
   ▪ Update and enforce all relevant SOPs covering partial harvest, full harvest and morts collection.
   ▪ Work with cross-functional departments to remain within harvest plan.
   ▪ Ensure critical timelines are adhered to. Observe start time and cut-off times.
4. Team management and Leadership
   ▪ Lead, mentor, and manage the teams.
   ▪ Set clear departmental goals and performance targets in line with the company’s overall objectives.
   ▪ Develop and implement strategies to optimize productivity, streamline processes, and improve operational efficiency.
   ▪ Allocate resources effectively to meet operational demands while adhering to budgetary constraints.
   ▪ Implement performance metrics and tracking systems to monitor the department’s KPIs.
   ▪ Regularly report on departmental performance to the Senior Operations Manager and identify areas for improvement.
5. Health, Safety & Quality Management
   ▪ Ensure safety protocols are followed from time to time and that every member is aware of critical control points (CCPs)
   ▪ Enforce all related SOPs and protocols
   ▪ Ensure all members on harvest team are adequately trained on safe harvesting operation and quality fish delivery.
   ▪ Follow up on quality monitoring aspects of fish handling; seining, bagging, scooping and icing while delivering to processing department.
   ▪ Ensure all harvest operatives are of good health status and can properly cope with lake environment.
   ▪ Follow up with technical team to have ready and in working conditions; scoop net, sein net, crane and well services gen set.
   ▪ Strictly comply with all governing regulation, both internally and externally

Skills and Qualifications

▪ Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Engineering, or a related field.
▪ 5+ years of experience in managing operations, logistics, and supply chain functions within an organization.

Competencies

1. Technical
   a) Capacity to understand complex operations and challenges, break them down into problems that can then be tackled and resolve them.
   b) Attention to detail and data driven approach to constantly improve operations and ensure consistency in delivering value to other parts of the business, day in, day out.
   c) Experience in managing multiple teams across different functions.
   d) Ability to thrive working collaboratively with both senior colleagues and more junior ones, solving problems independently, and in a fast-paced environment.
2. Functional
   a) People management skills
   b) Report writing skills
   c) Analytical and presentation skills
   d) Strong organizational and time management skills
   e) Good in problem solving and decision making
   f) Good communication skills (vertical and horizontal), can speak English and Swahili
   g) High degree of attention required to promote a safe work environment.

Benefit
▪ Visibility into the world’s fastest growing aquaculture company.
▪ Ideal for a candidate looking to dive into a mission-oriented Organization.
▪ The team is committed to the candidate’s success and will provide coaching, mentorship, and unique exposure to people and experiences that come from the most successful leaders in the entrepreneurial community and the social sector.

About Victory Farms
Victory Farms (VF) was established on Lake Victoria in 2016 with both on-shore and off-shore facilities. The head office is in Nairobi, and its Farm site is in Homa Bay County, with distribution across Kenya. VF has since become one of the fastest growing companies in aquaculture globally. In its first eight months of operation, the Company became the largest aquaculture producer in Kenya. Victory Farms aims to become the leading tilapia farm in Africa over the next 5 years while maintaining the highest environmental and social standards; as the most sustainable tilapia farm in the world, adhering to global standards and best practices, and producing affordable, sustainable protein to feed millions of people across Africa. Today, it is the largest commercial aquaculture player in East Africa and operates one of largest hatcheries on the continent.

The Company is continuing to rapidly expand its vertically integrated model: production, processing, and sales & distribution, to keep pace with the rapid growth in demand for protein. To support this, Victory Farms employs world class technologies, people, and processes to build its model for sustainable protein production on the continent. VF strives for the highest standards in performance, execution, culture, and integrity.

VF’s growth trajectory provides enormous opportunity for excited professionals to uplift their careers and make an impact within a diverse operation. We recognize the utmost importance which contributions by individuals and teams have to the success of Victory Farms. We work to create a fantastic environment for our employees. An environment where employees have an opportunity to develop professionally and personally.

How to Apply
Please send your 2 – page CV and cover letter expressing your interest and qualifications to recruit@victoryfarmskenya.com. Indicate the Job Title as the email subject – Assistant Manager – Lake Logistics.