Maintenance Lead

JOB PURPOSE

The Maintenance Lead role is critical to the development of our factories to World Class, which means zero defects, zero waste and zero losses. 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. The maintenance lead will lead the department while working directly with the cross-functional teams. This role will also support 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.

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are action oriented, growth focused and possess positive leadership skills, then this role is just for you!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

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.

Building Talent & Teams: Our vision is to move to 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 function groups in their improvements.

Growth Mindset: By building world class factories, we will become more competitive in the marketplace and set the 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.

Analytical capability: Collect and analyse complex data to penetrate problems’ phenomena and understand root causes.

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

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

Train maintenance crews on technical standards and sustainability of basic conditions (Stability sustainability).

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

Spare parts standards, define critical parts and maintain.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Must have 3-5 years of maintenance experience in manufacturing
• Graduate level education in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 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 whole factory team can understand;
• Able to make logical decisions based on data;
• Possess challenging and pioneering spirit.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Prior leadership experience
• Work experience in a unionized environment
• Experience in automation and controls, control panels
• Allen Bradley PLC Experience
• NFPA 70E electrical safety standard experience, electrical designs, schematics, Autocad experience
• Experience with P&IDs, PFDs, HAZOP, FMEA
• Experience in statistics and process control tools.
• Experience in AM, PM, Quality and FI tools and processes.
• Confident in applying problem solving tools (5W1H, 4M, 5WHY etc.)
• Process and instrumentation experience

Leadership

You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $84,900-$127,300. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. 

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible. 

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible. 

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverage for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. 

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