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Technical Assistant to Chief Operating Officer
About this role
The role is for a Technical Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer (Pan-Africa) at Dangote Industries Limited in Lagos. It provides high-level technical, operational, and analytical support to help monitor and improve cement manufacturing across the group’s Pan-African operations. The assistant analyzes plant performance, reviews technical reports, monitors initiatives, and ensures follow-through on operational actions across country operations. The position involves coordinating with plant leaders, preparing technical briefs, and developing management reports and dashboards for decision-making.
What you would do
- Evaluate technical proposals and improvement initiatives from country operations and prepare briefs for the COO.
- Analyse plant operating data to identify gaps, bottlenecks, reliability issues and improvement opportunities.
- Review plant performance across quarrying, raw material prep, kilns, clinker production, cement grinding, packing and dispatch.
- Provide technical and analytical support on cement manufacturing and plant operations.
- Consolidate periodic plant performance reports and monitor key performance indicators.
- Follow up to ensure timely implementation of actions and decisions from performance reviews.
- Prepare for plant and country operational performance reviews and review technical presentations before submission.
- Maintain a tracker of actions with owners, deadlines and status; document technical decisions and agreed actions.
- Summarise major projects for the COO and monitor CAPEX, scope, cost, schedule and benefits.
- Translate technical information into executive summaries and develop dashboards and management reports.
What they are asking for
- Demonstrable experience analysing plant KPIs and turning technical data into operational recommendations.
- Experience or certification in engineering or project management is advantageous.
- Experience in multi-plant or multi-country operations is desirable.
- Hands-on exposure to cement plant operations, process optimisation, maintenance, production or engineering.
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, process, industrial engineering or related field.
- 10–15 years of relevant experience in cement manufacturing or heavy industry; experience supporting senior operations leadership is advantageous.
- Postgraduate degree (Engineering, Operations Management or MBA) is an advantage.
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