Engineering Foreman: Process Plant

2 weeks ago

Boksburg, South Africa Unilever Full time

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:
Manage and allocate resources for maintenance of process plant equipment in order to ensure safe and optimum machine reliability and availability.

JOB SUMMARY:

- Safety: Ensures that OHS Act and the company safety rules and procedures are adhered to within the area of responsibility. Identifies risks for maintenance/factory activities and addresses them
- Budget: Controls and executes work against budget and authorise spending within authority limits. Plans and proposes maintenance budget. Finds opportunities for budget reduction and savings projects without an impact on Reliability
- Projects: Acts as an engineering representative on site projects and conducts forward planning to help filter out the relevant and important projects in the department. Guarantees Early Equipment Maintenance implementation at beginning of the project. Is able to lead projects from end to end looking at design, budget creation and control as well as execution of the project.
- Plant Availability: Ensures that machines are maintained as required and according to the maintenance schedule (current improvement methodology on site is World Class Manufacturing)
- Develops and implements maintenance projects and standards by sourcing and evaluating materials and allocating and staff. Ensures that the spares required for maintenance are available and are procured according to quality specifications
- Ensures that breakdowns/ adjustment losses are handled promptly and proper root cause analysis (RCA) is done driving breakdown losses even further.
- Manages action plans from maintenance activities (condition-based maintenance, Maintenance Tags, RCA)
- Ensures that engineering-related losses are identified and eliminated/reduced
- Factory Digitization: Leads the factory digitization agenda and oversees the deployment of tools such as BuildApp, Digital Manufacturing System and DFOS by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders”
- People: Lead a team of approximately 20 artisans and apprentices. This will include driving a professional Engineering culture that involves solving problems promptly and properly, at a high technical standard. Team management also includes setting up targets, monitoring performance and motivating the team

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

- Engineering Degree
- Must be a Mechanical Engineer with Processing and Digital and Automation experience from Engineering within FMCG/ Manufacturing environments
- Proficient leadership and management experience across large Teams, Stakeholders and Suppliers/ Third Parties/ Contractors
- Must have lead projects from end to end looking at design, budget creation and control and project execution
- Must have experience leading Shift Artisans
- Must have solid Budget Management experience
- Centralized Maintenance Management Systems experience will be an advantage

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