Factory Maintenance Engineer
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About the Role
Lipton Teas and Infusions is seeking a Factory Maintenance Engineer to coach maintenance technicians, ensure equipment availability, and drive continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment.
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Responsibilities
- 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 and environmental standards
- Liaise with Maintenance Planner to ensure effective and efficient use of resources and accuracy of plan
- Ensure equipment is available to meet production plans by applying the Lipton Management System PM Methodology
- Validate standards applied by operators performing autonomous maintenance tasks
- Review entries in the CMMS for accuracy and timeliness and take action where required
- Assess opportunities for continuous improvement in both preventive and predictive maintenance
- Lead all Maintenance on site with compliance to site safety requirements
- Develop and maintain task registers for routine vs non routine activities
Requirements
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering or Robotics, or a closely related technical field
- 4 5 years of experience in the food industry engineering
- Excellent engineering acumen – design and analysis of parts, machines, and systems using 3D modelling software, AutoCAD, FEA
- Expertise in mechanical equipment and electromechanical equipment and related components
- Excellent knowledge of Condition Based Maintenance
- Excellent data and analytics skills
- Expert knowledge of MS Excel to build efficiency and energy prediction models
- Intermediate knowledge in MS office/SAP/any CMMS platform
- Experience in a production environment, particularly in manufacturing or maintenance teams
- Strong organizational and problem solving skills
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The qualities we look for
- Lipton Teas and Infusions is made up of a special blend of individuals which make our teams exciting and diverse.
What's in it for you?
- We believe that growth is for everyone; we believe in growing leaders who have an owner’s mentality.
- We aim to build the future ready, value driven, transparent and real time supply chain ecosystem through disruptive digital transformation.
Main Accountabilities
- Use experience and expertise to coach and guide assigned work of Maintenance Technicians within expected timelines to the quality required by spending a significant part of day on the shop floor (6/2 rule) – 75% of time on the floor and only 25% in meetings or administrative tasks.
- 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.
- Liaise with Maintenance Planner to ensure effective and efficient use of resources and accuracy of plan.
- Ensure equipment is available to meet production plans by applying the Lipton Management System PM Methodology.
- Validate standards applied by operators performing autonomous maintenance tasks and review with First Line Managers in production as necessary.
- Review entries in the CMMS for accuracy and timeliness and take action where required.
- Assess opportunities for continuous improvement in both preventive and predictive maintenance and build into ongoing plans.
Safety
- Leading all Maintenance on site with compliance to site safety requirements
- Developing and maintaining task registers for routine vs non routine activities
- Developing and maintaining Risk assessments for Routine activities
- Closing all identified risks from risk prediction activities in ALL areas of the factory that fall under Engineering and Maintenance team
- Key responsible for Machinery safety (supporting site competent person during handover and eventually assuming responsibility as site competent person) on the site
Maintenance
- Plantwide breakdown analysis (Daily tracking and analysis of ALL breakdowns, Detailed root cause analysis for all TOP breakdowns, Implementation of corrective actions from analysis and actions coming out of all other teams (quality, safety etc))
- Responsible for complete factory maintenance, breakdowns and MTBF & MTTR KPIs
- Reduction of Breakdowns in numbers and % contribution to OEE loss in packing (Developing Maintenance Plans, ensuring maintenance plans reach to component level, Executing planned maintenance activities and ensuring OTIF compliance, tracking maintenance compliance against breakdown reduction, Lead al
- Reduction of Breakdowns in numbers and % contribution to OEE loss in making (approx. 800 Equipment e.g. valves, pumps etc)
- Developing Maintenance Plans
- Ensuring maintenance plans reach to component level
- Executing planned maintenance activities and ensuring OTIF compliance
- Tracking maintenance compliance against breakdown reduction
- Lead all major and minor modifications
- Reduction of Breakdowns in numbers and % contribution to OEE loss in Utilities (approx. 800 Equipment e.g. valves, pumps etc)
- Initiating, Negotiating & Managing Annual maintenance contract for Utilities equipment
- Ensuring all utilities equipment maintenance is done on time, in full
Utilities
- Ensure day to day operations of all utility’s equipment
- Drive maintenance agenda either through on site technicians or AMCs
- Drive projects to improve performance of utilities equipment or generate savings
Automation and Digitalization
- Identify needs, understand and tabulate requirements
- Give basic system design for automation projects
- Calculate cost/benefit ratios
- Lead automation projects for area of responsibility
Cost
- Maintenance Cost tracking against volumes/other variables
- Develop forecast models for all R&M Cost
- Track FC vs Actual Weekly cost
- Forecast R&M Budget in line with PM plans
- Line wise breakup
- Identify reduction opportunities in all cost (Utility + R&M + Manpower) to meet factory cost target year on year
Lean Manufacturing or similar Management Systems e.g. TPM, Six Sigma, WCM
- PM (Professional Maintenance) PILLAR LEADER
- Core member of AM (Autonomous Maintenance)
- Core member of QA/QC (Quality Assurance/Control)
Projects
- Innovation projects
- Capacity projects
- Cost & Energy Saving projects
- Focused Improvement projects
- Various Maintenance and Infrastructure related projects
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