Production Engineering Manager at British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN)

Posted on Mon 17th Jul, 2017 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) is a market leading, global organisation with a long, established history and a bright and dynamic future. Thanks to our people we have continued to deliver growth and exceed expectations in an increasingly complex and challenging marketplace.

Our aim is to become the leading tobacco company in each of our markets by providing excellent products with confidence and responsibility expected of global consumer brands.

If you have the talent and motivation to help us succeed you’ll find we are equally committed to helping you reach your full potential too.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Production Engineering Manager

Job Number: 17222BR
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Appointment type: Permanent

Job purpose and Key Deliverables
  • To implement a strategy for the continual improvement of factory performance in terms of efficiency and quality, in line with customer requirements.
  • To lead, manage and develop the key production support functions of Process Engineering, Maintenance and Sub Assembly Control and Repair.
  • To champion the philosophy of continuous improvement across all areas of the business and to encourage others to adopt techniques available to drive this
Essential Requirements
  • Process Engineering; ensure key site wide performance and quality issues are identified, targeted and systematically reduced or eliminated so as to improve factory performance and reduce waste. 
  • This will involve all they key generic elements of the manufacturing process; machine, materials, people, method and environment
  • Effectively manages the department’s expenditure and assets within the agreed budget
  • Responsible for ancillary production equipment (e.g. change over kits) and related operating procedures
  • To effectively represent customer (production) needs in Engineering projects, ensuring requirements/ acceptance criteria are fully understood
  • Continuous improvement of production performance.
  • Drives together with Production managers the identification of improvement opportunities, prioritizes them based on impact on production plan and ensures development of action plans and their implementation.
  • Leads the development of maintenance processes in order to find the optimum levels of corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance and the optimum method of delivery of these maintenance types.
  • Ensuring EH&S policies and procedures are adhered to within Process Engineering
Application Closing Date
24th July, 2017.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online