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• Promotion of workplace re-skilling and skilling for educated and
  un-educated;
• Promotion of resource efficiency and social safeguards at
  workplaces;
• Enhancement for the productivity of workers and enterprises

• Establish Industrial business shelters (common-user facilities) for
  Mechanical, Metal Fabrication and Welding; Electrical; Woodwork and
  Carpentry; Art, Design, Leatherworks, Textile & Tailoring; Plumbing
  & Construction; Agro processing; Information, Communication and
  Technology; Automobile Assembling, maintenance and repairs; Cosmetology;
  and Creative Arts with skilling facilities in Kampala and other urban
  areas across the country. Each Shelter will house a workplace skilling
  facility and Master Craftsmen or Experienced Trainers in different trades.
  The shelters will also be equipped with utilities like water, ICT, power,
  stores, sanitary conveniences, restaurants, workplace health promotion
  areas among others
• Develop statement of requirements for modern state of art
  equipment/plant and tools for installation and management in the
  industrial business shelters as well as development and implementation of
  the maintenance plan
• Develop business start-up tools kits list of requirements for
  informal sector businesses and develop a maintenance plan
• Work with Skills Development and Employability team to design and
  implement Training Programmes for informal sector businesses
• Develop a Public Private Partnership arrangements for the management
  industrial business shelters
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend changes or improvements in
  operational process, procedures, and equipment and provide analysis to
  support these changes;
• Perform process validation and maintains necessary documentation;
• Assist users of equipment and tools in understanding and
  establishing baseline performance and work standards for products and
  services produced in the shelter;
• Develop cost comparisons of alternate processes, parts, tooling,
  equipment, or systems within Operations;
• Performing cost studies, economic comparisons, and justification
  analysis through lowering the cost of production by eliminating wastes in
  both manpower and materials;
• Undertake research, develop and implement cost reduction programs;
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement by reviewing
  production processes and tooling to identify and implement processes that
  will reduce cycle times, process variation, defects, set up times, lead
  times, inventory or costs;
• Reviewing developments in machinery and manufacturing        techniques that will sustain
  effective and lasting change.
• Support the establishment of integrated production system using the
  Songai Model.
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

• The applicant must hold an honours Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical
  Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related
  disciplines from recognized university.
• Five years’ experience in any machine oriented background or
  industrial production processing is a must
• Master’s Degree in the same field is an added advantage.

• Ability to design, develop, implement
  and improve integrated systems that included people, materials,
  information, equipment and cost.
• Capable of performing root cause
  analysis to determine cause and solutions to various technical
  manufacturing issues.
• Product costing knowledge and ability to
  identify opportunities for cost reduction.
• This position requires and intermediate to
  advanced skill level with CAD software or any software dealing with plant
  layouts and process flow mapping; Design Skills, Project Management,
  Manufacturing Methods and Procedures, Process Improvement, Technical
  Understanding, Documentation Skills, Safety Management and Supervision

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