Our Culture
Our 40+ operations span across Africa, South America, North America & The Caribbean. Our unique blend of diversity is what makes our business successful!
We promote a collaborative and free-thinking culture that empowers our employees to think outside the box with an entrepreneurial spirit. These same characteristics encourage our employees to “think big.” If you have a strong value system, excellent judgment and unwavering integrity, we invite you to check out the opportunities that we have available!
Issyakha Bomou
Food Safety Manager / Project Manager at GMD
Employed since: 2020
Career path: Before working for the GMD, I participated in training on “Local Industry Development through the Enhancement of Hygiene and Quality Management for Animal-Sourced Foods” in Obihiro (Hokkaido, Japan).
The specific objectives were to enable participants to be able to explain the advanced techniques of animal-sourced foods and food production and the quality and hygiene management to relevant public or private stakeholders.
I also worked at Senegalese Ministry of Livestock and Animal Production. I was in charge to evaluate the compliance of processing facilities (slaughterhouse, cutting shops, dairy processing industries, etc.) in relation to current regulatory and prescriptive requirements.
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What do you like most about working for Seaboard Overseas and Trading Group? What I love most working about working at GMD is that I get the privilege to lead the food safety management system project. As the Food Safety Manager, it is a pleasure to work with several departments where the goal is permanently the same: provide excellent products and services to our customers.
What’s your favorite story/memory about working for Seaboard or Location? One of my most memorial story is when the General Director Deputy and the HR Director attended the training about food Safety Management System according ISO 22000. This was showed their commitment to our Quality Management System, consequently giving me a strong feeling of how important my role with GMD is.
Shalini Ramsamuj
Assistant Accountant at NAMILCO Guyana
Employed since: 2004
Career path:My first full-time job was at the radio station – The Guyana Broadcasting Corporation. I was employed in the advertising department as a Scriptwriter. My job was to write advertisements for our clients that will be read by the announcers during the day’s broadcast. This afforded me the opportunity to meet quite a few local and international artists and broadcasters, some of whom were very motivational to a younger me back then.
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What do you enjoy most about working for Seaboard or Location? For the 17 years that I have been employed at Namilco, I had the opportunity to work with some very positive and influential Managers and Supervisors. I was able to grow and develop as an individual.
What important values do you think Seaboard or Location delivers on? I believe Namilco stands by its commitment to providing excellence in quality and customer satisfaction. Being a part of the ISO Quality Auditors team for over 12 years, I have seen Management’s dedication to maintaining consistent growth and continuous improvement in the manufacturing process.
Dirk Daniel
Senior Protein Trader at SOL IOM
Employed since: 2004
Before working at Seaboard, what was the most unusual or interesting job you’ve ever had? From 1991 to 2001 I worked on an island in Mozambique building a fishing resort. Other than some local fishermen who used it as a temporary fishing base, the island was deserted. Amongst the first jobs on landing on the island was to clear an area to build a bush camp, digging a well for drinking water, building a long drop, and setting up a radio antenna. We learnt very quickly that hammocks were a necessity for sleeping as the island was inhabited by vast numbers of rats and very big poisonous snakes. On 22 February 2000 while on the island by myself Cyclone Eline struck. I was woken up in the middle of the night after one of the poles my hammock was tied to had collapsed into the sea after huge waves had washed away a portion of the bank between the sea and the thatched Lapa, I was sleeping in. I can honestly say that there was not a day that went by on the island where I did not experience something that would not stay with me for the rest of my life.
What do you enjoy most about working for Seaboard or Location? My job is never boring as markets are always moving and there is always a new challenge for every day. The team of people that I work with on a day-to-day basis are fantastic and make working at Seaboard an absolute pleasure.
What’s your proudest moment while working at Seaboard or Location? In 2018 when we sold and shipped over 120,000 Metric tons of Sunflower pellets from Argentina to South Africa in a 3-month period without the competing crushers realizing what had happened, until the ships started landing in South Africa.
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What surprised you most about the job or its location? The beauty of the isle of Man was probably what surprised us most when arriving for the first time on the island. We had never visted the island before packing up in South Africa and leaving to resettle on the island. I still remember the first drive off the ferry and along the old Castle Town road to the house we were renting. The whole family was so excited and the beauty of the old stone buildings with stone walls around the fields and tree lined country lanes just blew us away. As a family we love living in the Isle of Man as it has given us the chance to live on a small holding in the countryside within a easy drive to work.
Mamosa Nchakha
Production Business Analyst at Lesotho Flour Mills Ltd
Employed since: 2011
Before working at Seaboard, what was the most unusual or interesting job you’ve ever had? I worked for Youth Entrepreneurship Development Agency. It is a non-profit making organization initiated by young men and women/ entrepreneurship activists. Our job was to find potential investors for young start-ups between the ages 20 to 35 years. It was interesting and fulfilling to me in getting investors to finance those start-up businesses.
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What’s your proudest moment while working at Seaboard or Location? When I joined the operations team at my Location back in 2011, the magnitude of loss of assets, particularly inventory, was shockingly high. I joined in as Production Assistant with my main responsibilities being in the assessment of internal controls from receiving of raw materials to production and a bit on loading. My daily tasks included checking the receipts against the intake scale to ensure we actually pay for what has been received in the silos, checking production input into the system for authenticity for both the mills and warehouses data input, independent scale reading recording as well as warehouse daily stock take. I am very proud to have issued out recommendations on the internal controls improvements and I have seen the biggest improvement in the integrity of our reporting. In addition, it is still yet a very vulnerable area that needs continuous improvements and a great deal of monitoring.
What important values do you think Seaboard or Location delivers on? Job security, growth and exposure for individual employees. Being a nutrition vital player and its role in food security for the nation is another important deliverable.