SUIT Manager at Unilever

Main Purpose:

1. Innovation and Change Management – Deliver innovations to drive growth margin. It is the responsibility of the SUIT team to derive technical solutions to deliver the required changes and manage the scale up of innovations in manufacturing

2. Projects and Capex Management – Drive end to end project delivery for various types of projects: Innovations, renovations, formulation and packaging savings, site transformational projects, new technology, digitization and automation. Drive governance of capital spend for site and utilise EEM methodology for design and execution

3. Production Cost and Process Plant Optimization – Lead the cost control and reduction agenda for the manufacturing site to improve cost per ton and drive the bottom line to decrease conversion cost to match or exceed benchmark standards. The SUIT Manager is responsible for ensuring an optimal process plant, using Focused Improvement and Digital enablers to delivery high OPE and automation

Main Accountabilities:

Innovations Management;

• product development with the Research and Development Durban based team
• design and execution of main plant trials, both Feasibility and Capability
• product design and execution 
• product value improvement projects and formulation cost reduction
• innovations and renovations to drive value in product portfolio 

Process Plant & Operations Management

• end of line automation for operational efficiency
• packaging optimization
• focused improvements using lean principles
• early equipment management 
• Productivity, Overall Equipment Efficiency at 70%
• long term capacity planning, 5-year map
• operational support and supplier resilience
• process safety, electrical safety,
• product quality
• Waste Management (Pack & Raw)

Technology and Project Management;

• design, deploy, install and commission end of like automation equipment 
• Lead installation and commission of all new machinery 
• Lead the early equipment management pillar to build capability of project leads to do rigorous project management focused on vertical ramp up, design review and cost control

Quality;

• Quality Change Management
• Incident Management
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
• HACCP & CCP’s

Safety;

• SHE PAR
• Incident Investigation
• Risk Assessment
• Process Safety
• Machinery Standards
• Emergency Response

Financial Controls;

• Timely Capitalization
• Fixed Asset Tagging
• Operational Budget
• Weekly Spend Control
• Weekly Savings Management
• Stock Take

Key Skills:

Relevant Experience;

• Professional Engineering Skills ( Educated to degree standard in an engineering discipline)
• Engineering Design Process Management (Working Knowledge)
• Project Management (MS Projects)
• Operations Safety (Fully Operational)
• Maintenance Principles and Best practice (Working Knowledge)
• WCM EEM (Working Knowledge)
• Contract Management & Conflict Resolution (Working knowledge)
• Budget Management (Working Knowledge)
• SAP, MES, Shopware, Microsoft Projects, AutoCAD, Siemens Scada, Wonderware, JMP Statistics Tools, Microsoft Office 

Essential;

• 5 years experience of Project Engineering in FMCG / related Industry or gained in an  engineering consultancy environment
• First line management / Supervision experience
• Project Management exposure

Desired;

• First-hand experience / track record of supporting / exposure to major capital projects within Unilever or similar FMCG environment