Refurbishment Line Manager, Lagos (Nigeria)

What you would be expected to do

• Coordinate, organise, and oversee daily refurbishment line operations across multiple locations.
• Establish and monitor production targets, ensuring throughput, quality, and turnaround time (TAT) KPIs are consistently achieved.
• Oversee the end-to-end flow of returned products—from intake and diagnostics through repair, grading, and dispatch.
• Coordinate closely with logistics, warehouse, and supply chain teams to ensure efficient material flow.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date inventory records for spare parts, refurbished goods, and field return goods across all locations.
• Oversee the intake, logging, and classification of all field return goods, ensuring proper condition assessment and traceability from receipt to final disposition.
• Manage spare parts inventory to ensure adequate stock levels for uninterrupted refurbishment operations while minimising excess or obsolete inventory.
• Implement stock control processes, including cycle counts, periodic stock audits, and reconciliation of physical and system inventory records.
• Work with procurement and supply chain teams to forecast spare parts requirements based on return volumes and repair trends.
• Ensure refurbished goods are appropriately graded, labelled, and stored, with clear visibility of available stock for redeployment or resale.
• Identify and escalate inventory discrepancies, shrinkage, or losses, and coordinate corrective actions.

• Coordinate, develop, and enable a team of refurbishment technicians and quality inspectors.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, identify development needs, and design training plans.
• Foster a workplace culture centred on accountability, safety, and teamwork.

• Implement and apply quality control standards at every stage of the refurbishment process.
• Oversee product grading frameworks to ensure accurate classification of refurbished units.
• Investigate quality issues and recurring defect trends using root cause assessment.

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and lower refurbishment costs per unit.
• Maintain accurate operational records and produce regular reports on output, quality, inventory, and costs.
• Enable the implementation of new systems, tools, and processes as the refurbishment programme scales.

• Ensure refurbishment operations comply fully with health, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Conduct regular safety audits and maintain a safe working environment for all team members.
• Oversee disposal of non-recoverable components in line with e-waste and local regulatory requirements.

You might be a strong candidate if you

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in Engineering or another relevant discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in a refurbishment, manufacturing, or repair operations environment. Proven experience managing production lines or technical teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Good knowledge of solar PV systems, electrical wiring standards, and power electronics. Demonstrated experience in inventory management, including spare parts, returned goods, and finished goods stock control.
• Understanding of quality control, grading processes, and defect management. Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and locations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Critical thinking skills with the ability to structure problems and drive solutions even in ambiguous situations.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work autonomously, apply innovative thinking, solve problems effectively, and exercise sound judgment.

What Sun King offers

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.