Title: Shift Engineer
Location: United Kingdom-United Kingdom (County level)-Port Sunlight-Port Sunlight Office%26Factories
Job Number: 15000ERD
Job Title: Shift Engineer
Salary:
£29,744
attractive shift premium
Salary Details: Unilever offer progressional pay based on demonstration of skills and experience
Benefits: Excellent Benefits Location: Port Sunlight
Job Purpose:
The Shift Engineer is responsible for using the appropriate TPM tools to maintain and improve the performance of the Factory in line with KPI targets. Speed of response is vital. You will be required to use your engineering knowledge and fault finding skills to identify and rectify faults and issues that occur within the factory in an effective and safe manner.
Key areas of Accountability:
Health, Safety and the Environment • Adhering to safety standards, rules and emergency procedures and contributing to the development of a safety culture. • Identify and report health or safety hazards & dangerous situations. • Perform and document risk assessment.
If no RA exists then complete assessment and inform the leader. This would require further training and support and the involvement of COSHH. • Encourages ALL to behave in a safe manner.
Quality • Ensure equipment is able to manufacture products in accordance with quality procedures and standards to achieve the required product quality targets at minimal waste levels by analysing and eliminating all defects in conjunction with the operator. • Take immediate actions to rectify identified quality issues; ensuring zero quality defects by analyzing and eliminating all defects. • Identify quality critical control points; ensure they are monitored and maintained using good visual management. • Record all quality data as required and any non-conformance following Consumer Relevant Quality Standards procedures,
Customer Service
• Continually review performance against plan, take appropriate corrective action if required with a view to increasing overall factory efficiencies. • Anticipate and react quickly to problems in order to avoid impact to customer service. • Identify and implement agreed improvement opportunities to increase the production line flexibility.
Continuous Improvement & Workplace Organisation • Ensure area is clean and well organised at all times in adherence to 5S (Workplace Organisation Standards) • Contribute to the continuous improvement culture through active participation in continuous improvement tools and techniques (WCM) in order to identify and restore faults and abnormalities.
Cost • Ensure that equipment is generating minimum waste and give-away. • Identify improvements in order to reduce Cost, Waste and Energy.
Autonomous Maintenance • Understand and participate in the Factory AM master plan. • Support as required AM activities, tagging, lubricating, deep cleaning, OPL’s, Audits and elimination of contamination and hard to access areas.
Effective Maintenance • Participate in the maintenance planning for the factory including PM briefs and debriefs. Ensuring that all work is risk assessed, and the required tasks occur. • Look to reduce frequency and time of all AM and PM maintenance through improvements and reviewing the teams Maintenance activities.
• Report breakdowns, where required to identify the root cause, eliminate the problem and fix forever using countermeasures. • Ensure effective two way communication with Focussed Technicians, breakdowns analysis, losses, details of improvements, and transfer of required specialist machine knowledge. • Carry out troubleshooting and repair unexpected equipment stoppages, ensuring permanent/long term repair is scheduled if required.
Focused Improvement • Monitor Factory loss tree for loss patterns and take action to improve by understanding principles of equipment, analyse loss phenomenon and plan to eliminate these losses by eliminating the root cause using the appropriate FI tools. Fix forever by using the appropriate countermeasures e.g. updating the AM or PM standards, Operating procedures, creating OPL’s or requesting training.
Person Specification
Attitude & Effort
You are motivated and have a positive can-do attitude. You are persistent in overcoming challenges and you actively seek to remove obstacles. You have a high level of attention to detail and you are committed to delivering work to the highest quality. You are prepared to seek help when needed and to learn from others. You do not settle for ‘good enough’ but instead aim to achieve the highest standards at all times. You are pro-active and results-focused. You take initiative. Going the extra mile to deliver for our consumers and customers. You take pride in delivering work to the best possible standards and acknowledge when things are not up to scratch.
Team Working
You thrive in a team environment and display high levels of integrity and respect for others. You keep your word and can be trusted not to compromise your values – you do the right thing even when it means taking a difficult decision or action which they don’t necessarily agree with.
Problem Solving
You are confident and comfortable with making decisions. You take ownership and responsibility for problems. You have strong analytical skills, problem-solving capabilities and abilities to think beyond the next step.
Developing Self and Others
You are self-aware and highly committed to continuous personal development. You are keen to share and pass on skills and knowledge to colleagues through peer to peer training and coaching.
General Skills: You are a clear and effective communicator who is open and honest in both written and verbal communication. You are well organised and can multi-task – managing a number of priorities at one time in order to achieve set goals.
Qualifications & Experience
Minimum education level:
• A qualified apprenticeship • A
multi-skilled engineering background (e.g. mechanical, electrical) • GCSEs, O-levels or equivalent in Maths, English, Science • A strong preference for technical subjects (e.g. Physics)
Desired previous experiences: • Experience working with machinery
• Processes where Continuous Improvement has been used
• Experience in finding the root cause of a problem and fixing it
STANDARDS OF LEADERSHIP REQUIRED
• Growth Mindset • Accountability & Responsibility • Bias for Action • Building Talent & Teams • Consumer & Customer Focus
COMPANY OVERVIEW
“I’m passionate about making production more sustainable and at Unilever I’m given the freedom and confidence to take the important small steps that will make the giant leaps possible.” Amanda, Making Plant Leader.
Unilever is the global company behind powerhouse brands such as Flora, Dove, Persil and PG Tips. We have the huge ambition of halving our environmental footprint and doubling our size through our Sustainable Living Plan. And big ideas like the innovations taking place in our Supply Chain are driving our business. But to achieve this, we need more outstanding people like Amanda. With over 35 brands in the UK covering foods, home, personal care and refreshments the scale and scope of activity in Supply Chain is huge. All offer rewarding opportunities to work with great products – taking on real challenges, making a lasting impact, and creating better futures.
Hear more stories from our Unilever Makers and understand how you can start your own Unilever career at:
http://www.unilever.co.uk/careers-jobs/professionals/
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Or to apply now, click on “Apply to this job”. All candidate applications are reviewed in accordance with the criteria outlined for the job role. Please note that the closing date for the receipt of applications is 20th August 2015.
Candidates who have applied online can track their application through the candidate tracking link or, if you have any additional queries, you may contact the Recruitment hotline number on 0800 0284390.
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