Corporate Overview

BURN Manufacturing designs produces and distributes Africa’s best-selling, fuel-efficient biomass, electric, hybrid, and liquid fuel cooking appliances. Not only do our products save money, fuel, and natural resources, but they also dramatically reduce harmful indoor smoke emissions which can cause significant health problems, even death.

With more than a 1.2Millon+ stoves sold since commencing manufacturing operations in 2013, BURN has established itself as Africa’s most trusted cookstove brand thanks to our unwavering commitment to innovative research and design, and manufacturing excellence, and customer care.

BURN is now the only vertically integrated modern cookstove company in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our solar-powered facility currently has a capacity of 45,000 stoves per month. We are proud to employ 400 team members throughout Kenya and East Africa, and support a workforce that is 50 percent female, thus empowering women in roles traditionally considered to be “for men only.”

Among our national and global honors, we have received the 2018 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Award for being among the world’s leaders in clean energy solutions, the 2018 Swiss Energy and Climate Summit Award for our pitch on the impact of clean-burning stoves, and the 2015 Ashden Green Energy International Award for empowering women with new economic opportunities.

Job description

About the Role

BURN is looking for a Head of Engineering & Technology whose overall responsibility will be to bring new Electric cooking products through the product development process and launch them into the factory, including design, testing, engineering, process development, and developing/launching new production lines.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for launching new electric cooking products in the factory, including timelines, budgets, and risk analysis in addition to technical aspects.
• Detailed design of new products, including process development, equipment selection, design for manufacturability, durability testing, material selection, etc.
• Design and produce production, assembly, and QC tooling as well as custom factory equipment.
• Oversee initial production of new products.
• Team management of engineers, testing lab, and workshop. Work closely with designers, market research, factory management, quality control.
• Develop SOP’s, WI, specs, tolerances, QA processes and procedures.
• Create and adhere to budgets and timelines.
• Support the factory, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, equipment startup, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the development of new production processes and related documentation.
• Manage a team of electrical, firmware, and software engineers for internal and outsourced development.

Skills and Experience

• We expect 6-10 years of relevant experience and experience leading consumer product development in African markets is highly desired.
• You are a strong communicator, have always the overview over all moving pieces in your team. You perceive fast moving targets and changing priorities as a fun exercise, as your proactivity usually makes you faster than them. 
• You build strong, fact driven decision making materials with your teams. You have tremendous experience in managing divers’ teams that might span different time zones.
• You are a product person; a people’s person and you know how to set priorities and coordinate with all stakeholders within and outside of the company. 
• You are not shy to ask questions and are always striving to deliver the best results, considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.  

We offer a role with significant responsibility and compensation including benefits matching the level of the candidate and an opportunity to have a needle-moving impact on human lives and the environment across Africa. 

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Qualified Women are encouraged to apply

How to apply

If interested kindly send your CV and cover letter to the email:[email protected]