The 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 recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Utility Engineer
Job Reference: UE/02/2017
Location: Nigeria
Functional areas: Engineering
Department: Supply Chain
Job Description
The Utility Engineer reports to the Plant Engineer and the key responsibilities of the role are:
- Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on maintenance strategy execution in area of responsibility that includes water treatment plants, effluent treatment plants, iron removal plants, steam boilers, air compressors-high & low pressure, cooling compressors, chillers, air handling systems pumps etc.
- Participates in organization - and executes annual overhaul of production lines.
- Improves reliability and efficiencies by ensuring optimal execution of maintenance tasks.
- Participates in developing business plans targeting productivity improvement and increased cost efficiency
- Contributes to preparation- and controls annual utilities related maintenance budget ensuring sufficient funds to cover all routines and initiatives reflected in strategy & operational plans.
- Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects
- Effectively applies business performance review (E2020) management routine
- Optimizes the ability of assets to operation
- Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data
- Maintains effective systems to ensure CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
- Prepares, presents and interprets Maintenance KBI's, makes recommendations which result in increased productivity and efficiency; reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction
- Achievement of business targets by optimal use of labour and materials
- Analyses cost centre variances and investigates ways to improve cost performance
- Understands and controls main cost drivers in Maintenance
- Ensures full use of SAP Plant Maintenance module to be able to monitor cost and execution of utilities related maintenance activities
- Builds maintenance teams' capabilities through implementation of training and development programs
- Ensures IDP's are in place and executed for all direct reports
- Ensures training programmes are attended by all nominated team members. Follows up implementation of leanings
- Develops unit capabilities to achieve maximum utilization of technology and equipment
- Effectively applies approved selection and development tools for recruitment and development of employees
- Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance and develops successors
- Communicates unit strategy and ensures that all unit members understand and accept it
- Leads processes, systems and people side of all change initiatives in the unit
- Sets stretching but achievable objectives for all people in the unit
- Addresses poor performers quickly at all levels
- Lives and promotes company values and culture, and helps employees to understand and embrace them
- Personally lives the Company values and Code of Business Conduct and demonstrates them consistently
- Implements performance management systems with discipline in order to ensure that all first-line managers deliver full performance
- Regularly updates team members on company processes, changes and initiatives
- Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers, peers, institutions, suppliers
- Builds productive relationships with the employee/ union representatives
- Builds and re-reinforces relationships with Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Production Planning
- Establishes and maintains productive relationships with the relevant government bodies
- Ensures continuous process improvement by exploring Group and industry benchmark and employees input
- Listens to and encourages employee recommendations and implements the ones delivering values quickly
- Learns and implements best practices from outside and shares own best practices within CC Hellenic
- Promotes process automation and use of technology
- Ensure all Health, Safety & Environment policies and procedures are in place and followed
- Ensures all work is carried out in a safe and appropriate manner by maintenance personnel and service/contractor personnel
- Ensures Maintenance impact on environment is minimized and within the CC Hellenic and regulatory limits
- Implements and provides disciplined monitoring and reporting regarding the implementation of labour legislation, certification standards, CC Hellenic/TCCC CSR Practices and international agreements
- Plays a leading role in implementing communication and actions which put the Quality First (product, behaviour, communication, etc.)
- Ensures property and loss prevention.
Requirements
Desired Candidate Profile:
- B.Sc in Electrical/Mechanical/Chemical Engineering or Suitable Equivalent with 6 years working experience in the field of Production Management or Maintenance in Food or Beverage Industry.
- Experience in budgeting. Experience in people management.
- Experience in execution of projects such as: line commissioning, annual maintenance planning.
- Knowledge of a bottling organization: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety. Operational planning expertise/experience.
- Delegation skills. Full knowledge of SC strategy.
- Understanding of financial impact of decisions.
- Ability to think in terms of functional sustainability rather than short term wins.
- Ability to select and assess first-line managers.
- Coaching direct reports and mentoring others.
- Ability to empower managers.
- Ability to translate function strategy into unit/section’s plan.
- Ability to lead and manage change.
- Ability to set standards for management performance. High integrity.
- Ability to build relationships to improve results.
- Ability to understand what drives peers in other units.
- Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things. Intellectual curiosity.
- Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy.
- Ability to implement quality and health, safety & environment improvements
Application Closing Date
9th March, 2017.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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