Pack Plant Engineer at Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

• This role exists to Prioritize and allocate resources for maintenance of packing plant equipment in order to ensure safe and optimum machine reliability and availability. You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters — for people and the planet. Because here, we don’t just hire jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

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 authorize 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 Maintenance 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

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
• Manages action plans from maintenance activities (condition-based maintenance, Maintenance Tags, RCA)
• Ensures that engineering-related losses are identified and eliminated/reduced

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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc/ BTech in Electrical, Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years Packaging Engineering experience within FMCG/ Manufacturing environments
• Packaging background and working knowledge
• Proficient leadership and management experience across strong Teams, Stakeholders and Suppliers/ Third Parties/ Contractors