British American Tobacco is all about freedom of choice - whether it’s our people or our products. Combined with our entrepreneurial spirit, it’s what’s driven our phenomenal success. We started trading tobacco over a hundred years ago. Today, we’re a multibillion dollar company with more than 200 brands in our portfolio. With robust positions in each of our regional markets, our future looks equally bright too.
The Process Lead is expected to develop the operating teams’ technical understanding and mastery of process control.
The Process Lead owns the integrity of the Line Event Data System and is responsible for data analytics of line losses.
Also, the job holder acts as the team’s expert in troubleshooting and problem solving.
What You Will Be Accountable For
Familiarize oneself and complies with all applicable and relevant business processes, procedure and policies RTT / DMS
Owns the Centreline Management system for the line(s), including:
Establish CL targets & limits for the equipment owned by the team
Ensuring all CL audits are completed at the proper frequency
Develop control strategies to enable operators to respond to out of control situations
Training team members on documentation needed when running out of CL
Investigating, validating & updating new CL standards to eliminate losses
Executing weekly Health Checks, identifying gaps in system, and implementing appropriate countermeasures
Owns the Changeover DMS for the line(s)
Establishing Changeover standards for all product SKU’s
Reviewing Changeover critiques and coaching shift teams to identify and implement improvement opportunities to achieve CO success criteria
Leading Rapid Changeover events to identify additional opportunities to reduce changeover time as required by business need
Executing weekly Health Checks
Owns the Change Management DMS & validation processes
Including process benchmarking & reapplication across processes, modules and plants Loss Elimination
Analyses line data to identify and prioritize loss elimination opportunities including the creation of current state and future state loss trees utilizing tools such as loss allocation, weibull and S-shape
Participating in Line DDS process daily to set priorities and allocate resources, and report results for previous 24 hours:
CL & CO DMS’s
Top 3 stops and initial finding
Process Failures and initial findings
Using Reliability Engineering tools to drive Centreline DMS and loss elimination
Owns integrity of Line Event Data Systems (LEDS) Troubleshooting & Problem Solving
Leads root cause problem solving efforts on key chronic losses for the line(s)
Coaches teams to build capability in problem solving skills and formal tools, including but not limited to Initial Problem Solving, Unified Problem Solving, 6W2H, and 5 Why’s
Leads and builds the capability of team around process failures technical troubleshooting
Essential Experience, Skills and Knowledge
Higher National Diploma or Bachelors of Science / Engineering from a recognized institution.
Knowledge of any manufacturing environment with at least 2 years’ experience in a production environment
Must have sound coaching skills and must be able to develop others.
Ability to work with data and information
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
Demonstrated ability to assimilate technical data to support recommendations
Problem solving skills
Familiarity with structured problem tools useful but not mandatory
Specific technical mastery useful but not mandatory.
Salary Range
Competitive salary package + excellent benefits + market leading bonus.