Job Purpose

To protect company property and premises at all times using company policies by patrolling, guarding, and reporting.

Company background

Uganda Tea Corporation has been a leading tea producer and exporter in Uganda for the last 20 years. It has three estates with its headquarters at Kasaku near Lugazi. Kasaku is about 48km from Kampala and 40km from Jinja.

Duties and Responsibilities

Patrolling

• Ensuring the safety of coffee in the plantations.
• Patrolling of banana fields to prevent thefts
• Protecting cocoa plantations from thefts
• Ensure no illegal activities e.g grazing, illegal cultivation in the company premises
• Designing the school’s aim and objectives.

Maintaining company boundaries, safety and clean.

• Protecting company boundary from enchroaches
• Stopping illegal cultivation
• Maintaining company boundaries clean
• Keeping security at the company entry points (gates)
• Checking and searching vehicles/persons before allowing access to company premises.
• Inquiring from the relevant offices through phone calls before allowing visitors on the company’s premises
• Recording relevant information of the visitors in the resister book before allowing access.

Escort duties

• Escorting products from the company field to the factory premises
• Verification of products during loading and off loading
• Recording details of the products in the field and after arrival at the office e.g matooke, coffee kilograms.

Emergency responses

• Immediate stoppage of fire-outs breaks whenever they occur in the fields.
• Passing on communication to teachers, pupils, and parents.

Reporting

• Inform the supervisors immediately about any occurrences immediately by phone and written reports e.g thefts, accidents, enchroachments, fights in the labor villages e.t.c

Candidate specification

• Educational requirements: A minimum of UCE certificate in Education.
• Work experience: At least 6 months’ experience as a security guard.

Critical skills required

• Written and Verbal communication.
• Alertness at all times.
• Mentally upright and Sound.
• Sensitivity to the surroundings, should be 20 - 45 years.