Engineering Maintenance Lead

Job Title: Engineering Maintenance Lead

Location: Philippines

Main Job Purpose

The primary role of Maintenance Lead is to direct and guide area engineers and maintenance technicians, so the team can perform their work assignments efficiently and in a safe manner. This includes ensuring technicians have the required training and skills to perform work that meets all appropriate standards.Maintenance Lead is also responsible for ensuring that the uptime of equipment and assets is adequate to meet production plans. They contribute to improvement initiatives by continuously improving maintenance procedures and technology.

The Maintenance Lead role will focus on elimination of breakdowns and maintenance of basic conditions through use of Focused Improvement and Quality improvement methods including implementation of countermeasures that simplify processes, utilize predictive / preventative maintenance effectively and introduce increased automation and controls.

Working directly with the line crews, maintenance team, and cross-functional teams the Maintenance Lead also acts in support of technical training for maintenance team and provides coaching in phenomena identification, root cause analysis and the establishment of countermeasures. 

This role also has responsibility and support for preventative maintenance functions to improve reliability, efficiency and cost.

Key Accountabilities:

• Use experience and expertise to coach and guide assigned work of Maintenance Technicians within expected timelines to the quality required

• Assess skills gaps and seek to close these through timely and appropriate training interventions. 

• Provide appropriate equipment and training to ensure safe working practices are upheld and environmental standards are adhered to. 

• Eliminate Loss according to the UMS prioritization process using PM, FI and QC pillar tools and methodologies. 

• Ensure equipment is available to meet production plans by applying the UMS PM Methodology. 

• Validate standards applied by operators performing autonomous maintenance tasks and review with First Line Managers in production as necessary. 

• Review entries in DMS for accuracy and timeliness and take action where required. 

• Assess opportunities for continuous improvement in both preventive and predictive maintenance and build in to ongoing plans

• Implement preventative, predictive maintenance and design / automation improvements to maintain basic conditions and increase MTBF 

• Identify and extend good practice to other lines. 

• Key Performance Indicators (as driven by Cost Deployment Analysis): 

• Breakdowns (PM Loss), MTBF, Maintenance Cost 

• Benefit/Cost Ratio (a. For projects led b. Measured against salary). 

• Spare parts cost reduction. 

Key Competencies:

Consumer & Customer Focus.Building world-class factories will eliminate losses and ensure that we do not pass on the cost of inefficiencies to our customers and consumers.  

Bias for Action. By providing consistent and near real time information, decisions can be taken quickly which leverage our resources. Action minded individual.

Building Talent & Teams.Our vision is to move to semi-autonomous teams, and we require Maintenance Lead with a passion for achieving results through great teamwork, an ability to teach new tools and methodologies and ensuring that you and your colleagues are fully aligned and drawing on one another’s strengths. 

Accountability & Responsibility.  Taking responsibility for building your team’s performance and sharing your best interventions to help support other lines in their improvements. 

Growth Mindset.By building world class factories, we will become more competitive in the marketplace and set standards to which others aspire. Apply the full set of UMS methods and tools to identify root causes, define countermeasures and validate their effectiveness; Establish standards to support line operators and mechanics sustain new basic conditions. 

Process and Organizational Design.Leverage technical knowledge and a systems approach to ensure factory lines and processes are optimally resourced (e.g.manpower ratios are efficient and sustainable). 

Analytical capability.Collect and analyze complex data to penetrate phenomena and understand root causes.  

Professional Skills and Qualifications:

• Professional Engineering Skills, hold engineering degree (Mechanical. Electrical, Chemical)

• Project Delivery

• Maintenance Principles and Best practice (Fully Operational) – Strong troubleshooting skills

• Able to visualize clearly what the ideal production system is

• Able to clearly understand operating principles and establish correct operating standards. 

• Able to present findings and rationales clearly so that the whole factory team can understand. 

• Able to make logical decisions based on data.

• Contract Management & Conflict Resolution

• Budget Management

Experience Required:

ESSENTIAL

• 5+ Years experience of Maintenance Experience in FMCG / related Industry

• 2+ years’ operating in a management capacity

• Significant Hands-on Maintenance experience

• Good to have attained Professional Engineer Status (Or member of professional institution)

PREFERRED 

• FMCG experience and/or Unilever Exposure

• Manufacturing & Technical background is required

• Experience in automation and controls: Allen Bradley, Omron, etc.

• Experience in AM, PM, Quality and FI tools and processes. 

• Confident in applying problem solving tools (5W1H, 4M, 5WHY etc.)

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