Maintenance Manager

Background & Purpose of the Job

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 the Professional 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: You provide maintenance and 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 productivity looking 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
- Engineering Master’s Degree. Preferably in Mechanical Engineering;
- 5 - 10+ years of professional experience in Maintenance Management and organizational management areas in FMCG/ 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

What We Can Offer You
- Culture for Growth

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Top Notch Employee Health & Well Being Benefits

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Global Reach

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Life at Unilever

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World Class Career Development Programs

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