Utilities Technician

ROLE DESCRIPTION
**Title**:
Utilities Technician
**Function & Business Unit**:
Springs Manufacturing, MENAT-SSA BU
**Reports to**:
Mechanical Business Partner Springs
**Global Level**:
GL02
Purpose of the role
The Utilities Technician is responsible for maintaining equipment in basic condition and extending its lifetime through adequate and cost-effective (preventive/condition-based) maintenance in the Utilities area. He/she is responsible for identifying and eliminating losses/waste, reducing Equipment Breakdowns, reducing unplanned and eventually planned downtime, eventually reducing maintenance cost and improving OEE across Operations through leveraging the KWS methodologies, while maintaining the highest standards in Safety and Quality & Food Safety. He/she ensures that the Maintenance Plan for Utilities is continuously updated and executed.
Limited travel could be required. He/she performs standby duties across the factory, which may mean coming in during odd hours.
Working Relationships
Reports to the Mechanical Business Partner
**1 Direct Report**: Utilities Fitter
Closely works together with the PM Coordinator, the Maintenance Technicians for Process/Packing, the Stores Controller, the shift fitters and the Process Engineer ‘Process’.
Partners with all other Plant/CSL Departments at all levels
Plays an active role in one or more KWS Centers of Excellence
Partners with equipment suppliers
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Environmental, Health and Safety
Role Models, promotes and encourages a Health and Safety culture within the Plant, leveraging GEMBA, Safety 7 Tours and Leader-led observation programs as key coaching opportunities.
Ensures that all Environmental, Health & Safety rules, policies & procedures (incl legislated requirements) are being followed and acts pro-actively by addressing any concerns.
Assists in root cause analysis of incidents/audit findings in Utilities and identifies/implements actions to mitigate risk/structurally eliminate the hazard.
Quality and Food Safety
Role Models, promotes and encourages a Food Safety & Quality culture within the Plant, leveraging GEMBA & Golden 6 Tours as key coaching opportunities.
Ensures that all Food Safety & Quality rules, policies & procedures (incl legislated requirements) are being followed and acts pro-actively by addressing any concerns.
Assists in root cause analysis of incidents/audit findings in Utilities and identifies/implements actions to mitigate risk/structurally eliminate the hazard (including but not limited to Adverse Events, Non-conformances, Food Safety/Quality Incidents & Alerts,).
People
Fosters proactive, clear, consistent and transparent communication across the Maintenance Department, Operations and the rest of the plant Daily Direction Setting meetings, Toolbox talks, Shift team meetings and Shift Take Overs.
Actively drives capability building for the Mechanical Maintenance area (esp. shift fitters) and Operations, linked to loss elimination and Management of Change.
Kellanova Work Systems (KWS)
Actively participates in one or more KWS Centre of Excellence teams and owns one of the critical Daily Management Systems (DMS).
Ensures follow up of all critical Maintenance DMSs and actively drives implementation of Reliability Maintenance in the Utilities area.
Actively enforces SAP as the single source of truth (including but not limited to spares, work orders, purchase requisitions,).
Manufacturing and Operational Efficiency
Owns the overall OEE improvement (Breakdown Elimination, Unplanned/Planned Losses) and loss elimination journey for the Utilities area, in close collaboration with Operations. He/she owns the Mechanical Maintenance plan for Utilities, ensures this is continuously updated and timely/efficiently executed (this includes planning, preparation, staging, installing/assembling and testing). He/she analyses shiftly/weekly/monthly trends and develops & drives relevant action plans to improve.
He/she leverages the full KWS toolbox in the journey to eliminate losses in the Maintenance and wider Utilities area. The KWS tools help him/her in diagnosing malfunctioning systems, identifying root cause and executing relevant short
- and long term improvements.
Throughout the Reliability Maintenance journey, the Mechanical Maintenance Technician Utilities actively works to reduce Unplanned Downtime, initially through replacing with Planned Downtime so adequate (preventive/condition-based) maintenance can be executed, afterwards reducing the Planned Downtime whilst further improving OEE and reducing maintenance costs/spare parts inventory.
As Mechanical Maintenance Technician Utilities he/she ensures the long range capital plan is reflecting adequate ‘Repair & Replace’ interventions and minimizes obsolescence across Utilities.
He/she owns the equipment asset list and drawings for the Utilities area and ensures this is up to date through regular audits/counts.
Preferred Education, Skill & Experience
EDUCATION & RELEVANT