The purpose of this job is to manage Maintenance and Facilities in the factory, providing an optimal infrastructure and improving production facilities in terms of flexibility, capital input, operating costs and performance. The job includes managing supervisors and technicians at the site, managing the maintenance teams and day-to-day maintenance costs, systems and program, leading a team of electrical, mechanical, control and utilities supervisors/ technicians, maintenance planners and additional employees in the safe and efficient repair and maintenance of the facility, utilities and production equipment for the entire factory for all shifts. Leads theProfessional Maintenance Pillars with full integration with the Unilever Manufacturing System plans on site. The position reports to the site director.
Who You Are & What You’ll Do
You’re a born leader:Youprovide maintenanceand facilities leadership, drawing resources from the local, regional and global organization as well as the global, category, peers and/ or 3PM teams. You serve as the Professional Maintenance pillar leader for the site. You lead the maintenance cost, systems and maintenance program at the site to drive safety, productivity improvement, cost,improvement of assets lifetime, asset utilization and reliability. You have strong passion for Technical Excellence and people development to drive team’s performance. You strategically influence peers and stakeholders to drive the business agenda through technical solutions.
You’re a dot connector:You work closely with the site team to build a robust maintenance, infrastructure and utilities master plan (non-product core) to drive change, sustain and improve performance and customer service at manufacturing. You put together a team of technical members in different disciplines (mechanical, electrical, controls and automation, maintenance planners, utilities, etc.) to drive the site performance by the delivery of improvements and capital projects based on the site masterplan.
You’re a change maker:You flawlessly executes activities leading all technical aspects of the working program working with site, Procurement, suppliers and the technical community in an integrated, high performance work team. You drive site efficiency by constantly looking at ways to improve safety, maintenance costs and productivitylooking at alternative technical solutions, besides working together with the site to sweat the assets, finding ways to extend the operating life of equipment, improving efficiencies, lowering environmental footprint and lowering operating costs. You drive the maintenance costs down by improving the condition and care of the assets and by finding alternative solutions for the maintenance program at the site.
You’re a culture and change champion:You provide and stimulate creative solutions to technical problems, rapid transfer of best practices, and you drive equipment reliability embracing outside-in mentality and willingness to experiment and collaborate.
You love to win, and have fun doing it: You have strong technical expertise in total systems approach in all work efforts, adhering to Unilever standards and ensuring safety as a value. You have the ability to balance a variety of priorities while maintaining healthy relationships across the engineering team, key stakeholders and customers.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
Essential
B.S. or B.E. degree in Engineering or equivalent education with demonstrated working experience
5 – 10+ years of professional experience in Maintenance Management and organizational management areas inFMCG/ related industry
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a people and maintenance management role (amount of experience needed depends on site size/ complexity)
Minimum 3 – 5 years manufacturing experience.
Professional engineering skills
Maintenance Systems and Maintenance Management expertise
Budget management skills
Understands and implements continuous improvement to drive performance for loss management.
SOLs: Purpose & Service, Personal Mastery, Agility, Business Acumen, Talent Catalyst, Passion for High Performance, Consumer Love
Skills: Leadership, Communication, Persuasion, Project Management, Analytical/ Systems Thinking
Desired
Attained Professional Engineer Status (Or member of professional institution)
Knowledge of facilities systems
Implementation of Maintenance Management systems (CMMS)
Structured work and thinking
Self-motivating with high problem-solving focus
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