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 Role

Burn is looking to hire a Quality Control Lead who will oversee the activity of the quality assurance team, developing, implementing, and maintaining a system of quality and reliability testing for the organization’s products and development processes. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Measure and analyze quality in the factory, including incoming quality on raw materials, finished goods  quality, in-process quality
• Manage the out-of-box audit (OBA) process, providing feedback to the production and engineering teams
• Manage a team of quality inspectors and analysts with their daily tasks and workstation allocation
• Generate and share daily and monthly quality reports including corrective actions
• Coordinate weekly and monthly meetings between quality inspectors and production employees to review line quality
• Work with engineering & NPD teams to ensure that process/product validations are carried out adequately and successfully
• Participate in the development and revision of quality documents, such as spec sheets, SOPs, drawings, etc
• Facilitate training, learning, and knowledge dissemination for quality inspectors and analysts. Contribute towards training strategy for the factory
• Identify stations and production lines that need more training and/or more talent
• Ensure that all quality requirements are met before ECN/TPD implementation 
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the manager from time to time

Skills and Experience:

• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Bachelor's degree with at least 2 years experience in a quality control leadership role.

How to apply

If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please submit your application with a detailed CV to the email:[email protected]