Job vacancies at Holland Dairy P.L.C Ethiopia

Job Summary

The Technical Planner & Workshop Supervisor is responsible for planning maintenance activities, coordinating workshop jobs, and ensuring the availability of spare parts and resources. The role supports maintenance reliability by preparing accurate work plans and supervising workshop operations.

• Reporting to Technical Manager

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Follow company safety, hygiene, and quality rules.
• Develop daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance plans (preventive, predictive, and corrective).
• Prepare detailed job plans including manpower, materials, tools, and safety requirements.
• Prioritize maintenance tasks based on urgency, machine criticality, and operational needs.
• Coordinate schedules with production, technical, and maintenance teams to minimize downtime.
• Track work progress and follow up on delayed or pending tasks.
• Oversee workshop activities including machining, fabrication, welding, repairing, and part refurbishment.
• Allocate tasks to workshop technicians and monitor performance.
• Ensure repair and fabrication jobs meet technical specifications and quality standards.
• Maintain workshop equipment in good working condition.
• Enforce housekeeping, tool control, and safe working practices in the workshop.
• Maintain accurate inventory of spare parts, tools, materials, and consumables.
• Identify critical spares and ensure stock availability.
• Initiate purchase requests and coordinate with procurement for timely supply.
• Track spare parts usage and maintain updated inventory records.
• Reduce stockouts and optimize inventory costs.
• Record maintenance activities and job completion details in CMMS or logbooks.
• Maintain equipment history files, technical manuals, drawings, and inspection records.
• Generate maintenance reports: completed work, backlog, parts usage, and workshop output.
• Provide analysis on breakdown trends and maintenance performance.
• Ensure all workshop and maintenance activities follow safety standards and procedures.
• Conduct toolbox meetings and ensure technicians use proper PPE.
• Permit-to-work requirements, and safety checklists.
• Report safety hazards, incidents, and support investigation processes.
• Work closely with maintenance, production, safety, procurement, and technical teams.
• Communicate daily plans and expectations to technicians.
• Ensure clear handover of pending and ongoing tasks between shifts.
• Support technical audits and inspections when required.
• PM planning, including preparations and updating the ERP system
• Clearing work orders and spare parts, including LOTO
• Spare parts management
• ERP managements
• Breakdown reporting
• Workshop management
• Have the responsibility to report problem(s) with regards to the FSMS to identified person(s)

• BA Degree in Mechanical or TVET level IV
• Experience greater than 4 years required
• Good communication skills
• Young, energetic, and passionate
• Good verbal & written communication

The Sales Manager (Upcountry) is responsible for the commercial performance and development of all Holland Dairy markets outside Addis Ababa. The role owns sales growth, distribution expansion, regional teams and partners, and the route-to-market for both existing and new upcountry markets.

• Deliver agreed sales volume, revenue and profitable-growth targets for all markets outside Addis Ababa.
• Develop regional growth plans and own the route-to-market, using direct distribution, distributors, mini-distributors or regional hubs as appropriate.
• Recruit, manage and develop distributors and other regional commercial partners against clear targets and service standards.
• Lead and coach regional Field Sales Representatives, with clear objectives for outlet coverage, customer acquisition, distribution and execution.
• Identify new upcountry locations to penetrate and prepare clear market-entry strategies.
• Increase numeric distribution and product availability, using SENRI and sales data to identify execution gaps and opportunities.
• Run structured weekly and monthly performance reviews and translate performance gaps into clear actions.
• Work with Supply Chain, Warehouses and Logistics to ensure reliable availability, efficient delivery and cold-chain execution.
• Support regional launches and trade-marketing activities and build strong stakeholder relationships through frequent market visits.
• Recruit, develop and manage the Upcountry Sales team according to the Holland Dairy Culture and Trust Pyramid.

• Degree in Business, Marketing, Management, Economics or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant sales experience, preferably in FMCG.
• Experience in regional sales, distributor management and leading Field Sales teams.
• Experience in dairy, food, beverages or cold-chain distribution is an advantage.
• Professional proficiency in Amharic and English is required.
• Other Ethiopian languages relevant to major Upcountry markets are an advantage.

General Competencies

• Good understanding of route-to-market design, territory management and distribution expansion.
• Data-driven decision-making and strong sales-performance management skills.
• Strong planning, customer-service, problem-solving and ownership skills, including cold-chain execution.
• Experience with Sales Force Automation or CRM systems and good Excel skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively throughout Ethiopia.
• Sales-driven, results-driven and target-driven attitude.