Recruitment at Lafarge Africa Plc

Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.

Applications are invited for:

Title: Lafarge Africa Plc Graduate Trainee Programme 2025 / 2026

Location: Nigeria

Description

• Are you ready to build your career in a company that values innovation, learning, and leadership?
• Our Graduate Trainee Programme is designed to shape the next generation of leaders in technical and business functions.
  • We are looking for motivated and tech-savvy graduates who are eager to gain hands-on experience, sharpen their skills, and grow in a dynamic, performance-driven envirexonment.

Programme Structure:

• 1 Month Induction: Intensive onboarding to understand our culture, safety standards, and operations.
• 4 Month Rotation: Gain exposure across Manufacturing, Commercial, Logistics, Procurement, and other business functions.
• 7 Month Deep Dive: Specialize in your chosen function with real project responsibilities.
• Mentorship: Every Graduate Trainee is paired with an experienced mentor for guidance and career development.

Who We’re Looking For

• Graduated no later than January 2023, with a minimum of Second Class or its equivalent.
• Degrees in Chemical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Business Management, Accounting, Finance, and related disciplines.
• 0 – 2 years of work experience or any Plant environment exposure is an advantage.
• Comfortable with digital tools, data analysis, and remote collaboration platforms.
• Active participation in student organizations, volunteer projects, or internships is an added advantage.

Why Join Us?

• Accelerated learning in a structured environment.
• Hands-on projects with measurable impact.
• Mentorship from industry experts.
• Career growth in a multinational setting.

Application Closing Date
14th October, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Title: TSDP Placement 2025

Locations: Ewekoro – Ogun, Mfamosing – Cross River, Ashaka – Gombe
Duration: 18 months

About the Programme

• Lafarge Africa Plc invites suitably qualified Ordinary National Diploma holders for admission into an eighteen-month multi-skilled vocational training program covering the following technical disciplines:
  • Maintenance Processes, I.e. Mechanical/ Electrical/ Instrumentation and Automation /Welding and Fabrication Technology.
  • Cement Manufacturing Processes, I.e. Production / Process and Quality.
  • The program is designed to train and equip successful candidates with the skills and attitude to be self-employed/employable in the vocational areas listed above.
  • It is an 18-month technical intensive training scheme in which successful candidates will enjoy tuition-free lectures, rigorous hands-on sessions and a token allowance to offset out-of-pocket expenses.
  • At the end of the programme, candidates will be issued the Lafarge Internal Certificate.

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Completion of Ordinary National Diploma (OND) from a recognized institution.
• Minimum of 5 O’level credits to include English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and any other subject (in no more than 2 sittings).

Application Closing Date
31st October 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Security Manager, Project

Requisition ID: 15303
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

About the job

• The Security Manager will be responsible for strengthening the safety and security framework across our project sites in Nigeria.
• He/she will be responsible for improving overall site security performance, developing and implementing robust security plans to ensure the protection of expatriate staff, and reviewing, updating, and enforcing security policies and procedures in line with global best practices.

What you’ll be doing 

• Support the Country Security and Administration Director to develop and implement security policies and plans, ensuring the personal safety of new projects
• Oversee daily conduct of Chinese expatriates to ensure adherence to security systems, procedures, and facilities
• Support the Country Security & Administration Director to enhance LAP security systems, procedures, and facilities.
• Site security audit to avoid incidents

What we are looking for 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in security related leadership roles
• Security or military background
• Extensive work and/or management experience in security related field
• Project management experience and/or qualifications
• Map reading, terrain assessments and transcribing location data into maps, planning tools or briefings
• Proficient with Microsoft Office / Google based applications
• PowerPoint briefings

Organization Structure:

• The role reports to the Country Security and Administration Director

Core Competencies:

• Execute security duties responsibly. Familiarity with all aspects, sections, patrol lines, and security objectives within the Project. Organize team members to conduct frequent inspections, identify potential security hazards, and report them promptly. Handle general issues appropriately and maintain complete records.
• Assess the discipline and attendance of security team members. Organize and direct the team in completing all assigned security tasks. Maintain accurate and truthful work logs and ensure proper handover procedures between shifts.
• Strictly enforce the company’s rules and regulations. Organize all security personnel for professional knowledge study and security skill training, ensuring the entire team maintains a rigorous style, follows orders, remains dedicated to their duties, treats others with sincerity and courtesy, and upholds the company’s positive image.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Mechanical Planner

Requisition ID:  13859
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full-time

About the Job

• Improve the efficiency and productivity of own personnel and third party services through a good planning, follow up and optimization of all preventive/corrective maintenance tasks to reach the targets of equipment availability / reliability at the lowest sustainable maintenance cost, in collaboration with all involved departments or sub-departments, following the maintenance guide lines defined by the company.

What You’ll Be Doing 
The Mechanical Planner is responsible to prepare all planned maintenance that have to be carried out by the Mechanical Execution team, service companies or contractors. In that role, the Mechanical Planner will work closely with the inspectors and the execution team on the following tasks and responsibilities in order to reinforce the day-to-day job preparation & planning:

• Planning and scheduling of all preventive maintenance routines in SAP/DMS together with the specific execution responsible. Generation and optimization of the 48/96 weeks workload balancing sheet by department/specialty/technic targeting a good balance during the days of the year. Generates the weekly and 13 weeks planning. Prioritizes the notifications coming from condition monitoring or others and generates corrective work orders in agreement with the requester
• Leads the preparation and consolidation of the shutdown planning (personal, third parties services, materials, spare parts, equipment, tools, time, critical path) with coordination meetings using MAC guidelines and tools.
• Generates purchase orders as well as third party services contracts for mayor shutdown, assure that spares and services will be delivered on time. Control of expenses during planning as well during the execution vs budget and control the inventory level vs guide value
• Assure that special and repetitive jobs come with a standard work order. Lead the weekly KPI revision meeting as well as the work planning confirmation for the next week
• Takes care of his own development needs and train maintenance people on planning requirements
• Assure that all work orders have the required H&S information, and that all legal requirements (safety, environmental, maintenance) are in the yearly preventive maintenance plan and are executed.
• Monitor the realization of the plans. Follow-up tasks defined in mayor shut-downs in a daily frequency.
• Leads After Action Review for shutdown or mayor repairs
• The Mechanical Planner will be utilized to supervise some jobs and contractors during annual plant
• The list is not exhaustive as planners may be required to perform other functions as may be assigned by the manager

Who you’ll be working
List of direct reports:

• None

Key Interfaces, stakeholders and relatinships:

• Inspector
• Lubrication Foreman
• Inventory
• Area Manager
• Shift Leader
• Workshop
• External contractors and suppliers
• Procurement,
• Finance

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Mechanical Engineering graduate
• 3-5 years’ experience in Mechanical Engineering, including rotating machines, equipment maintenance, condition monitoring, in cement manufacturing company, refinery, power or heavy process plan
• Knowledge of gearboxes, transmissions, hydraulic, pneumatic, welding techniques, lubrication, and mechanical non-destructive testing
• Adequate Knowledge related to equipment function & maintenance (Crusher, Stacker, Reclaimer, Raw mill, Belt Conveyors & Aux. Equipments)
• Good knowledge of Machinery condition Monitoring technologies and maintenance philosophies.
• Ability to trouble shoots the problem and proposed corrective actions.
• Excellent knowledge of vibration analysis, oil analysis, wear measurement, thermography, liquid penetrant, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, radiography, etc
• Good knowledge of RCA methodology and facilitating skills
• CMRP certification will be an added advantage

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Assistant, HR / IR Manager

Requisition ID: 14044
Locations: Mfamosing, Cross River
Job Title: Full-Time

About the Job

• Working with the HR Business Partner, the role provides support in the delivery of the HR agenda to the business.
• This includes preparing analysis and materials for HR processes e.g. FRC, annual salary review, supporting line managers and acting as assigned Business Partner to certain groups

What you’ll be Doing

• Support the implementation of the annual agenda for HR Strategy in line with the functional plan.
• Support the Plant HRBP in the recruitment of non-cadre staff.
• Maintain the personnel administration/records for the site, ensuring on-time delivery, accuracy of information provided and legal compliance (especially for annual social statements, and individual contracts).
• Support the development and continuous improvement of HR systems and policies in line with best practices.
• Work with the Head of HR Industrial and Plant HRBP to identify opportunities and areas of improvement to support improved organisational and people performance.
  • Coach and equip supervisors to effectively manage their people in line with people plans e.g. performance managem4d4dd3333aent
• Support production of HR data reporting and analysis to satisfy routine and ad-hoc organisational requirements
• Working with the Head of HR, Industrial/IR, manage employee and industrial relations for the plant and provide support and guidance to the Plant HRBP.
• Manage the interface with relevant statutory bodies and trade associations in the locality as agreed with the Plant HRBP in conjunction with the Head of HR Industrial/IR.
• Support the Plant HRBP in the deployment of policies for effective employee / industrial relations management across the plant.
• Support the Plant HRBP on employee and industrial relations issues to ensure a peaceful industrial atmosphere.
• Liaising with the Head of HR Industrial/IR, support Plant HRBP in resolving industrial relations crisis in the plant.
• Provide necessary support for the Plant HRBP during salary negotiations.
• Under the direction of the Plant, HRBP manages projects as required.
• Monitor the social climate in the plant and provide regular feedback to the Plant HRBP and Head of HR Industrial/IR.
• Collaborate with and support other roles within the O & HR function as required.

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Graduate in any discipline, preferably the Social Sciences
• 2 – 3 years relevant HR BP or generalist experience in an Industrial setting
• CIPD certification added advantage
• Excellent influencing and coaching skills
• A solution-based approach to problem-solving
• Project management skills
• Tenacious and flexible – open to change

Behavioral competence:

• Customer focused
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise and work well under pressure
• Desire to learn

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online