Technical Sales Team Manager

Staff / Senior Engineer Electrical Facility Engineer)

Area Sales Manager

Facility Engineering - Electrical 

PVD Equipment Engineer

Senior Data Scientist

Financial Director

Halal Executive Chef

Executive Chef, Operations

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Lead, coach, and develop a team of Technical Sales Engineers across multiple regions and segments</li><li>Manage a growing international team, ultimately overseeing 11 team members including remote employees in the Philippines and Europe</li><li>Provide strong day-to-day leadership with a high degree of autonomy and accountability</li><li>Support the development and execution of robust technical sales strategies that strengthen customer support and brand positioning</li><li>Enable the team to achieve assigned sales support targets and operational objectives</li><li>Understand customer requirements and guide team members in delivering effective, tailored technical solutions</li><li>Participate in and support high-opportunity sales pursuit calls when required</li><li>Collaborate closely with Technical Specialist leadership to improve alignment and partnership between Sales and Technical Sales Engineering teams</li><li>Drive continuous improvement across processes, customer engagement, and technical support delivery</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Proven leadership experience managing technical or sales support teams</li><li>Previous experience within refrigeration systems, cold chain, or related cooling technologies</li><li>Strong technical understanding of refrigerant systems is essential</li><li>Ability to balance technical depth with commercial and customer-facing responsibilities</li><li>Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills</li><li>Ability to work independently and lead within an international, remote team structure</li><li>Fluent English language skills are required</li><li>Willingness to travel regularly to Aachen, typically 1–2 days per week</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Operate &amp; Maintenance: <ul><li>Leads safe, compliant operation and maintenance of electrical infrastructure, establishes and controls MOS/SOP with strong change management, maintains accurate technical documentation, partners with Engineering, Operations, and EHS on regulatory compliance, drives risk and safety programs (FMEA, LOTO, arc flash, permits), and ensures full standards compliance and audit readiness.</li></ul> Reliability &amp; Risk Management: <ul><li>Drives root cause analysis for electrical disturbances, leads predictive and preventive maintenance programs, and strengthens system reliability to minimize unplanned downtime.</li></ul> Capacity Planning &amp; Tool Install: <ul><li>Plans and manages electrical load models across fab and facilities operations, ensures proper feeder loading, redundancy, and diversity, and reviews/approves designs while overseeing safe energization and commissioning.</li></ul> Projects &amp; Commissioning: <ul><li>Define acceptance criteria, test protocols, and witness critical tests.</li><li>Manage vendor performance and ensure documentation close out (O&amp;Ms, as builts).</li></ul> Power Quality &amp; Energy Performance: <ul><li>Monitor PQ and deploy mitigations (filters, SEMI F47 ride through, UPS tuning).</li><li>Drive energy efficiency projects (e.g., transformer loading optimization, UPS efficiency, busway losses, smart metering analytics).</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>At least a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.</li><li>Minimum 6 years of related work experience in Electrical Engineering within wafer fab/semiconductor</li><li>Experience in high volume manufacturing of electronics components in an MNC or semi-conductor industry.</li><li>Direct working experience in wafer fab facilities will be added advantage.</li><li>Possess strong technical competencies in his field of study.</li><li>Able to work under pressure and with strong commitment at work.</li><li>Experience with software applications such as MS Power Point, Excel and Word.</li></ul>

Overview: <ul><li>An Area Sales Manager is responsible for overseeing sales operations within a specific geographic region.&nbsp;</li><li>Their primary role is to drive revenue growth by developing sales strategies, managing sales teams, building strong customer relationships, and ensuring the achievement of sales targets.&nbsp;</li><li>They analyze market trends, identify new business opportunities, and coordinate with marketing and distribution teams to maximize market share.&nbsp;</li><li>The Area Sales Manager also monitors team performance, provides training and guidance, and ensures consistent implementation of company policies and sales processes.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Delivering primary and secondary sales targets within assigned cluster/ region by driving our core business.</li><li>Identify new business opportunities &amp; nominate to drive the selected offering where we can win.</li><li>Driving demand generation of key products through user engagement to achieve desired results.</li><li>Build &amp; manage relationships with importers, important wholesale &amp; retail outlets &amp; potential influencers.</li><li>Ensure timely primary order collection, maintain commercial hygiene, pricing for the country.</li><li>Support leadership to drive the BTL objectives aligned for the said cluster/ region. In addition, conduct monthly business reviews with local team against the said BTL target.</li><li>Capture &amp; maintain user data &amp; track BTL objective achievement update against it.</li><li>Closely engage with sales team to drive sales numbers</li><li>Mandatory market-working with development &amp; sales team to drive conversion, upgradation &amp; sales. Capture market insights like our products’ feedback &amp; competitor information - performance, team strength, ways of working, pricing, etc.</li><li>Ensure timely submission of claims with complete documentation as per &amp; local laws of the land.</li><li>Follow &amp; abide by COC</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Min 7 years’ experience in Sales &amp; Marketing with user engagement (of which 3 yrs managerial experience is preferred).&nbsp;</li><li>Candidates from Paints, Adhesives, Cement, Construction Chemicals &amp; other Building material industry preferred.</li><li>Graduate from a recognized university. MBA preferred</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Operate &amp; Maintenance <ul><li>Leads safe, compliant operation and maintenance of electrical infrastructure, establishes and controls MOS/SOP with strong change management, maintains accurate technical documentation, partners with Engineering, Operations, and EHS on regulatory compliance, drives risk and safety programs (FMEA, LOTO, arc flash, permits), and ensures full standards compliance and audit readiness.</li></ul> Reliability &amp; Risk Management <ul><li>Drives root cause analysis for electrical disturbances, leads predictive and preventive maintenance programs, and strengthens system reliability to minimize unplanned downtime.</li></ul> Capacity Planning &amp; Tool Install <ul><li>Plans and manages electrical load models across fab and facilities operations, ensures proper feeder loading, redundancy, and diversity, and reviews/approves designs while overseeing safe energization and commissioning.</li></ul> Projects &amp; Commissioning <ul><li>Define acceptance criteria, test protocols, and witness critical tests.</li><li>Manage vendor performance and ensure documentation close out (O&amp;Ms, as builts).</li></ul> Power Quality &amp; Energy Performance <ul><li>Monitor PQ and deploy mitigations (filters, SEMI F47 ride through, UPS tuning).</li><li>Drive energy efficiency projects (e.g., transformer loading optimization, UPS efficiency, busway losses, smart metering analytics).</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>At least a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.</li><li>Minimum 6 years of related work experience in Electrical Engineering within wafer fab/semiconductor</li><li>Experience in high volume manufacturing of electronics components in an MNC or semi-conductor industry.</li><li>Direct working experience in wafer fab facilities will be added advantage.</li><li>Possess strong technical competencies in his field of study.</li><li>Able to work under pressure and with strong commitment at work.</li><li>Experience with software applications such as MS Power Point, Excel and Word.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Perform equipment troubleshooting with systematic &amp; analytical mindset to minimize/eliminate downtime</li><li>Oversees decommissioning, movement, installation, upgrade, retrofit &amp; maintenance of manufacturing equipment</li><li>Monitors equipment uptime &amp; implement relevant improvement actions to improve equipment reliability &amp; solve chronic issues</li><li>Conduct training for line technicians to improve their technical competency and fan out critical knowledge relevant to achieve key departmental KPIs</li><li>Manage spare part cost &amp; availability</li><li>Collaborate with process engineers on yield related topics and implement relevant improvement/containment actions to prevent recurrence</li><li>Collaborate with external vendors on equipment troubleshooting, spare part availability/procurement &amp; equipment upgrade/retrofit</li><li>Participate or lead projects involving downtime reduction, cost saving, yield improvement or new material qualification.</li><li>Defines maintenance procedures &amp; upkeep documents related to the smooth running of manufacturing equipment</li><li>Coordinates equipment activities with inter and intra department personnel to ensure smooth execution</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.</li><li>Hands on individual with experience in vacuum PVD equipments.&nbsp;</li><li>Dynamic team player who possesses good interpersonal skills</li><li>Strong passion &amp; drive to seek improvements to equipment &amp; process setup</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Working closely with other data scientists and engineers to design, develop, and deploy AI solutions.</li><li>Leading the development of advanced AI and machine learning models to solve complex business problems Analyzing large datasets to identify patterns and trends that can inform AI development.</li><li>Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure AI solutions are aligned with business goals and customer needs.</li><li>Leading the automation and lifecycle management of sophisticated data systems. Mentoring junior data scientists and provide guidance on AI and machine learning best practices.</li><li>Designing APIs for disseminating data science outputs to various business units. Overseeing the scaling of production systems to meet growing demands.</li><li>Working closely with other data scientists and engineers to design, develop, and deploy AI solutions.</li><li>Leading the development of advanced AI and machine learning models to solve complex business problems Analyzing large datasets to identify patterns and trends that can inform AI development.</li><li>Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure AI solutions are aligned with business goals and customer needs.</li><li>Leading the automation and lifecycle management of sophisticated data systems.</li><li>Mentoring junior data scientists and provide guidance on AI and machine learning best practices.</li><li>Designing APIs for disseminating data science outputs to various business units.</li><li>Overseeing the scaling of production systems to meet growing demands.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Possess an advanced or Masters education in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field. Have experience working directly with large language models and transformer-based architectures including BERT, RoBERTa, T5 etc.</li><li>Be proficient in working with big data technologies and tools like Hadoop, Spark, or AWS.</li><li>Have experience and knowledge of applying LLMs including ChatGPT, GPT 3.5, Claude, Mistral, etc.</li><li>Be a natural problem solver, able to lead and mentor junior data scientists, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.</li><li>Demonstrate proficient experience with machine learning algorithms, including deep learning, gradient boosting, and random forests Possess advanced programming skills in Python, R, or other relevant languages for data analysis.</li></ul>

The Role <ul><li>To provide finance support and lead the operating company in the formulation, execution and continuous evaluation of its short-term and long-term financial strategy. Key focus is on taking accountability for the overall financial health through planning, analysing, advising and reporting on financial strengths and weaknesses in pursuit of improved financial performance. Manage the finance operations in alignment of the objectives for MDS Logistics, whilst leading others and overseeing the financial operations.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Decision Making - Makes sound, well-informed and objective decisions, based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment.</li><li>Judgement/Critical evaluation - The ability to make sound decisions and develop alternative courses of action, based on logical assumptions; analysis, systematic thinking and factual information- resulting in desired outcomes.</li><li>Business Acumen - The ability to understand financial and economic concepts and principles; to identify, create and/or take advantage of opportunities with the aim of improving the viability of a business.</li><li>Risk Management - Identifies financial risk strategies and challenges in the company environment. Develops contingency plans to manage these risks. Provides support to managers in assisting with the identification of specific risks and how to address them.</li><li>Problem-Solving - Being able to design and drive implementation of solutions and monitors the effectiveness once solution has been implemented.</li><li>Communication – The ability to communicate both verbally and in written format. Being able to create reports and present information to others.</li><li>Deciding and initiating action - Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; takes initiative and works under own direction; initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into work processes; makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks.</li><li>Leadership – Lead and drive team to reach their objectives and in doing so enabling the business.</li><li>Stakeholder relationships – The ability to develop and manage relationships with different stakeholders.</li><li>Results oriented – Taking a proactive approach in handling competing priorities and meeting deadlines and commitments, demonstrating a “can do” positive attitude.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Minimum of HND/ BSc in Accounting.</li><li>Minimum of 8-10 year in various aspect of accounting with 5 years in Leadership role in a similar environment.</li><li>Inherent understanding of the Nigerian Finance and Tax Legislation.</li><li>Strong Commercial Analysis skills – cost modelling exercises and analysis</li><li>Strong process driven skill set to ensure governance compliance</li><li>Goal orientated, focused on meeting key deliverables within stipulated timeframes</li><li>Prior experience in leading, building and inspiring teams</li><li>Advanced legal compliance knowledge / skill</li><li>Advanced financial management knowledge / skill</li><li>Advanced financial planning knowledge / skill</li><li>Advanced budgeting and cost management knowledge / skill&nbsp;</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>We’re looking for motivated, engaged people to help make everyone’s journeys better.</li><li>Reporting to the General Manager of the unit, the Executive Chef, Operations is responsible for daily monitoring of the preparation of the pre-designed meals for multiple customer accounts with culinary expertise through the management of all Chefs, Sous Chefs and Cooks at the unit, and promoting and providing quality food services to airline clients.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Achieves culinary operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; serving as culinary resource to operations managers; identifying and resolving problems; completing audits; determining system improvements; implementing change.</li><li>Meets culinary financial objectives by estimating requirements; assisting with menu design; anticipating and evaluating response to menu presentation; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions; evaluating time-saving production techniques; training others in specialty techniques.</li><li>Adheres to recipes and portion specifications as required by the customer by understanding consumer tastes and nutritional needs; reviewing product specifications; evaluating ease of menu preparation; applying established procedures and budgetary constraints.</li><li>Oversees food preparation by consulting with the Buyer; Sous chefs, cooks, and team leaders; overseeing portion size; controlling productivity; providing culinary leadership in areas of personal expertise; monitoring presentations, garnishments, and sauces.</li><li>Improves menu quality and consistency by analyzing food production records and menu expenses; promoting kitchen staff interest in quality improvement; studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; implementing changes.</li><li>Prepares menu and food preparation reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing food, dining, and customer data and trends.</li><li>Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with sanitation and federal, state, and local legal regulations; overseeing food preparation, safety, and security; reviewing and implementing accident and disaster plans.</li><li>Using menu specifications, maintains food ingredients, food preparation, and general supplies by selecting and purchasing menu ingredients; evaluating the quality of fresh food and food product deliveries; maintaining general supplies; establishing inventory levels, re-order points, storage requirements, and cost-controls.</li><li>Maintains culinary equipment by following operating instructions; instructing staff in equipment use; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining equipment supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment; preparing administrative proposals to justify purchases.</li><li>Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; being sought for opinions as a culinary expert; contributing to professional publications; participating in professional societies and sharing this information with direct reports.</li><li>Accomplishes culinary goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.</li><li>Ensures quality production standards are followed and maintained. Ensures employees adhere to HACCP, FDA and safety regulations and compliance with company policies and procedures.</li><li>Trains and monitors employees on proper work procedures and production of products to ensure maximum productivity with minimum labor and food expenses.</li><li>Assists in the development and training of cooks as required.</li><li>Prepares administrative reports as required.</li><li>Ensures maximum productivity and labor costs are maintained according to financial requirements.&nbsp;</li><li>Monitors daily manpower planning and employee turnover.&nbsp;</li><li>Responsible for employee retention.</li><li>Ensures meal cycles are communicated in a timely and accurate basis.&nbsp;</li><li>Monitor yields of products to ensure maximum usage.</li><li>Works with management staff to improve performance of the unit.</li><li>Ensures Menu presentations are properly planned, set up, and specifications reviewed to ensure compliance.</li><li>Maintains labor requirements, food costs, overtime, and all productivity requirements.</li><li>Must ensure all cooks, and Sous Chef employees have the skill and ability to perform all cooking and food preparation requirements of all the Airline Accounts serviced in the Unit.</li><li>Ensures all products are cooked at required temperature according to airline and food safety specification, etc.</li><li>Responsible for coaching, counseling and preparing corrective action for employees.</li><li>Completes all company required training including but not limited to ServSafe Sanitation Manager Certification.</li></ul> Requirements: Education: <ul><li>Associate Degree or Bachelor Degree in the Culinary Arts or a related field, (formal culinary education) required or at least 4 years of experience in an Executive Chef role.</li></ul> Work Experience: <ul><li>Minimum 10 years of experience as a Chef required.</li><li>Minimum of 4 years of experience as an Executive Chef required.</li><li>Minimum of 1-3 years of supervisory experience working in a high volume, manufacturing, food production, and restaurant or catering environment required.</li><li>In-flight catering experience or experience in a high-volume food service environment required.</li><li>Halal: 5 years of experience required.</li><li>ServSafe Certified preferred.</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>Reporting to the General Manager of the unit, the Executive Chef, Operations is responsible for daily monitoring of the preparation of the pre-designed meals for multiple customer accounts with culinary expertise through the management of all Chefs, Sous Chefs and Cooks at the unit, and promoting and providing quality food services to airline clients.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Achieves culinary operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; serving as culinary resource to operations managers; identifying and resolving problems; completing audits; determining system improvements; implementing change.&nbsp;</li><li>Meets culinary financial objectives by estimating requirements; assisting with menu design; anticipating and evaluating response to menu presentation; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions; evaluating time-saving production techniques; training others in specialty techniques.&nbsp;</li><li>Adheres to recipes and portion specifications as required by the customer by understanding consumer tastes and nutritional needs; reviewing product specifications; evaluating ease of menu preparation; applying established procedures and budgetary constraints.&nbsp;</li><li>Oversees food preparation by consulting with the Buyer; Sous chefs, cooks, and team leaders; overseeing portion size; controlling productivity; providing culinary leadership in areas of personal expertise; monitoring presentations, garnishments, and sauces.&nbsp;</li><li>Improves menu quality and consistency by analyzing food production records and menu expenses; promoting kitchen staff interest in quality improvement; studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; implementing changes.&nbsp;</li><li>Prepares menu and food preparation reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing food, dining, and customer data and trends.&nbsp;</li><li>Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with sanitation and federal, state, and local legal regulations; overseeing food preparation, safety, and security; reviewing and implementing accident and disaster plans.&nbsp;</li><li>Using menu specifications, maintains food ingredients, food preparation, and general supplies by selecting and purchasing menu ingredients; evaluating the quality of fresh food and food product deliveries; maintaining general supplies; establishing inventory levels, re-order points, storage requirements, and cost-controls.&nbsp;</li><li>Maintains culinary equipment by following operating instructions; instructing staff in equipment use; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining equipment supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment; preparing administrative proposals to justify purchases.&nbsp;</li><li>Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; being sought for opinions as a culinary expert; contributing to professional publications; participating in professional societies and sharing this information with direct reports.&nbsp;</li><li>Accomplishes culinary goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.</li><li>Ensures quality production standards are followed and maintained. Ensures employees adhere to HACCP, FDA and safety regulations and compliance with company policies and procedures.</li><li>Trains and monitors employees on proper work procedures and production of products to ensure maximum productivity with minimum labor and food expenses.</li><li>Assists in the development and training of cooks as required.</li><li>Prepares administrative reports as required.</li><li>Ensures maximum productivity and labor costs are maintained according to financial requirements. Monitors daily manpower planning and employee turnover. Responsible for employee retention.&nbsp;</li><li>Ensures meal cycles are communicated in a timely and accurate basis. Monitor yields of products to ensure maximum usage.</li><li>Works with management staff to improve performance of the unit.</li><li>Ensures Menu presentations are properly planned, set up, and specifications reviewed to ensure compliance.</li><li>Maintains labor requirements, food costs, overtime, and all productivity requirements.</li><li>Must ensure all cooks, and Sous Chef employees have the skill and ability to perform all cooking and food preparation requirements of all the Airline Accounts serviced in the Unit.</li><li>Ensures all products are cooked at required temperature according to airline and food safety specification, etc.</li><li>Responsible for coaching, counseling and preparing corrective action for employees.</li><li>Completes all company required training including but not limited to ServSafe Sanitation Manager Certification.</li></ul> Requirements: Qualifications Education: <ul><li>Associate Degree or Bachelor Degree in the Culinary Arts or a related field, (formal culinary education) required or at least 4 years of experience in an Executive Chef role&nbsp;</li></ul> Work Experience:&nbsp; <ul><li>Minimum 10 years of experience as a Chef required</li><li>Minimum of 4 years of experience as an Executive Chef required.</li><li>Minimum of 1-3 years of supervisory experience working in a high volume, manufacturing, food production and restaurant or catering environment required.</li><li>In-flight catering experience or experience in a high-volume food service environment required.</li></ul> Technical Skills: (Certification, Licenses and Registration) <ul><li>Ability to cook meals according to detailed specifications.</li><li>Ability to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.</li><li>Must have strong and effective leadership skills, and the ability to successfully manage a staff of 2 to 3 Sous Chefs and over 20 cooks.</li><li>Current or previous labor relations experience is a plus, but not required.</li><li>Candidate must be comfortable with all levels of employees and have the ability to drive positive program change.</li><li>Ability to train others required.</li><li>Must have the ability to give negative and positive feedback to employees on a daily basis.</li><li>Excellent time management skills required. Ability to handle multiple tasks without losing focus on priorities.</li><li>Strong organizational, analytical, communication and leadership skills required.</li><li>Must be innovative and have the ability to make changes to the operation as needed to further improve the work environment and unit performance.</li><li>Experience with menu design a plus</li><li>Basic computer skills required. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products preferred</li></ul> Technical Skills: (Certificates, Licenses and Registration) <ul><li>ServSafe Certified preferred.</li></ul> Language / Communication Skills: <ul><li>Must have excellent written and oral communication skills.&nbsp;</li><li>Multi-lingual a plus.</li></ul>

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