Plant Engineer at Nigerian Bottling Company

Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is one of the biggest companies in the non-alcoholic beverage industry in the country and is the sole franchise bottler of The Coca-Cola Company in Nigeria.
Our company serves approximately 160 million people by producing and distributing a unique portfolio of quality brands, bringing passion to marketplace implementation, and demonstrating leadership in corporate social responsibility,we are seeking for highly qualified, proactive, well organized and motivated individuals to reinforce our team.

We are currently recruiting for the position of:

Job Position: Plant Engineer

Location: Lagos
Job Ref: PE/07/2013

Responsibilities

• Leads a technically thorough team of maintenance controllers and technicians to deliver on all KBIs to ensure line availability and reliability.
• Scoping and delivering cost saving ideas and improvements to manufacturing methodologies within the business.
• Defines root cause and implements solutions to equipment and process related non conformance situations.
• Uses standard manufacturing maintenance, engineering and project management tools and processes to enable special improvement projects to be delivered on time, to cost, to quality to ensure identified benefits are released.
• From hands-on experience and working with QA/Prod, helps in defining process equipment requirements and specifications based on process requirements, safety requirements and internal customer needs.
• Assists in determining the budget to support maintenance requirements.
• Proposes and implements formal and OJT for associates helping to grow them.
• Measures/evaluates equipment efficiencies, downtime and assist in development of maintenance
• Mentors and assists MCs in best practices to develop future successor.

Qualification

• Relevant Engineering Degree or equivalent Diploma (advanced technical degree).
• Minimum of 7 years experience in a technical position and demonstrable management abilities.
• Experience in improvement project management tools like Kaizens, 5Ys, AFF, DMAIC, FITs etc within a demanding manufacturing environment with demonstrable success in delivering to costs, quality and time parameters.
• Proven familiarity with budgeting including R.E procedures.
• Familiarity with the introduction of new lines/ cost reduction initiatives within a manufacturing environment.
• Good understanding and experience of current manufacturing methodologies.
• Understanding of GHK and GMP.
• in major automated bottling line operations.
• Ability to identify, raise and push for approval appropriate CAPEX wish list for engineering equipment upgrades.
• Understanding of business case preparation and basic financial analysis tools.

Application Closing Date
25th July, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online