Asset Engineer at Philip Morris International

The Asset Engineer is responsible to plan and manage assets in a cost-effective way, ensuring optimal equipment availability and reliability through assets’ life cycle by developing and implementing proper maintenance strategies, procedures and routines with a focus on assets and maintenance performance in order to meet company objectives in compliance with applicable standards and policies/procedures contributing to continuous improvement culture.

Key accountabilities include:

MAINTENANCE STRATEGY

• Develop and/or improve proactive and cost-effective maintenance strategies based on suitable techniques and procedures. Modify and keep them up to date to further improve equipment availability, reliability, maintainability, and safety as well as contribution to product quality.
• Analyse most frequent machine downtimes and develop substantial solutions against root causes to eliminate, or drastically reduce machine downtime to bring about overall productivity improvements.

MAINTENANCE PLANNING & SCHEDULING

• Ensure maintenance planning and scheduling to increase the ratio of proactive (planned) work versus reactive (unplanned) work, to fulfill the production plan, and to ensure that it is implemented timely and properly and carried out in full compliance with the customer needs safety norms, and quality requirements and cost objectives. Follow-up machine standardization plan link to process improvements and updates.

MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

• Work out and budget annual maintenance plans in conjunction with maintenance supervisors and production manager and ensure proper and timely implementation of these plans.
• Review reliability of existing equipment that is difficult, costly, or safety risky to maintain and recommend appropriate action. Find opportunities for designing out maintenance activities where conventional reliability and maintenance activities are not cost-effective.

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT (SPARE PARTS) AND SYSTEMS

• Define spare parts requirements estimation and min-max level of spare part stock for all equipment.
• Assist spare parts, consumables, and small equipment budget preparation.
• Ensure that spare parts' consumption is in correlation with the approved budget.
• Clarify technical aspects with suppliers related spare parts and materials
• Participate in the process of scouting new suppliers, in order to identify potential improvements in terms of cost and quality.
• Ensure that maintenance processes and data are reflected in relevant maintenance systems (SAP/CMMS) and/or logbooks.

ASSET DELIVERY

• Ensure coordination between production and engineering departments for the preparation of technical specifications in case of a new machinery purchase. Review and authorize the documentation link to new machinery purchase to ensure it meets standard methodologies needed for equipment, work ergonomics, and business.
• In collaboration with the production team ensure and supervise adequate production resources for start-up and commissioning of new machinery until it is handed over to regular production.

ASSET REGISTER

• Ensure and update the asset register for equipment.
• Integrate new equipment, pursue vital risk assessments, and provide guidance for the preparation of related documentation in order to fully align with legislation and internal procedures.
• Ensure all machine documentation is updated and available.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Initiate technical development and / or lead/participate in projects to improve safety conditions, quality, and more effective use of equipment, spare parts, and consumables, both at the local/regional level, inconsistency with OPEN+ (global manufacturing standards) pillars & system, including engineering design improvement initiatives
• Find technical solutions, implement and monitor proposed improvements related to equipment
• Actively participate in continuous improvements decision process, in line with the change management process

SUSTAINABILITY / HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT

• Promote and apply all rules concerning Philip Morris (PM) & Leonard Dingler’s (LD) quality, environment, health, and safety. Report all situations requiring actions in order to minimize or eliminate risks exposure to personnel, company assets, and societal impacts and be in line with or ahead of any applicable Law requirements and Company standards.

Who we’re looking for

• Degree/Diploma in Mechanical/Electronics Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years of recent experience in a production/operations environment
• Minimum 5 years of solid experience in asset and maintenance management with developing and implementing maintenance strategy as an Asset Engineer
• Experience in global manufacturing will be advantageous
• Strong experience and technical knowledge of the production process, materials, and equipment
• Solid technical competence in maintenance strategy is key
• Ability to provide technical support and training to less experienced professionals, and can coordinate the work of others
• Proven experience with managing spare parts and supplier management
• Experience in practically applying engineering design skills to improve equipment performance
• Ability to optimally prioritize competing needs
• Proficiency in MS Office package
• Proficiency in English, both written and verbal
• Works with wide autonomy and independently leads high complex projects

OTHER KEY COMPETENCIES

• Customer delivery focused
• Ability to build strong relationships
• Action-oriented
• Ability to develop and direct others
• Project Management
• Good communicator