Title: Shift Engineer
Location: United Kingdom-United Kingdom (County level)-Port Sunlight-Port Sunlight Office%26Factories
Job Number: 16000DHW
Job Title: Manufacturing Shift Engineer
Salary: £32,492
40% shift allowance
Benefits: Bupa healthcare, pension and 25 days holiday
Location: Port Sunlight, North West England
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.
ABOUT THE ROLE
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 RESPONSIBILITIES
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. 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 analysing 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 focus improvement tools. Fix forever by using the appropriate countermeasures e.g. updating the AM or PM standards, Operating procedures, creating OPL’s or requesting training.
ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
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
REQUIRED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS
• Accountability & Responsibility
• Growth Mindset
• Consumer and Customer Focus
• Bias for Action
• Building Talent & Teams
HOW TO APPLY
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/ .
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: 29th July 2016.
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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