Manager Maintenance Engineer

Main Purpose Of The Job

Effective and consistent management of the site engineering practice and operation. To consistently achieve production and cost targets minimizing waste and downtime, through effective management and upkeep of the processes, teams and equipment, to ensure that we achieve customer service level with our customers, through the manufacture of products to the right quality and specification.

Job Description

• Covering all aspects of food safety.
  • Ensure engineering teams are effectively coordinated and managed, through having a clear knowledge and understanding of requirements, attention to detail and providing all teams with inspiration, guidance, motivation, training and multi-skilling.
• Drive the team to look for issues, and not wait to be told or instructed to complete a task.
  • Awareness of all machinery problems or any unfinished jobs.
  • Keep a full library of machine manuals, along with support mechanisms linked to site or group resources when information and support is required.
  • Ensure the engineering team attend breakdowns promptly.
  • Create a “one person for one job” policy unless the job requires more or for training; never compromise safety.
  • Ensure all areas are operating under discipline, the workplace, workshop and stores are clean, organized and tidy by maintaining a clean as you go policy in all areas.
• Drive the production process to ensure that the products produced meet customer specifications, quality and food safety.
  • Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly production meets targeted outputs through effective management of equipment and engineering resources.
  • Communicate effectively with all the team, not just “Send and Forget” emails.
  • Carry out performance reviews with your team and ensure training is done where needed.
  • Proactively looking for areas of improvement and adopting techniques and practices that ensure that there is a quality environment in production.
  • Ensure that health and safety requirements are fully met and a positive safety culture is maintained throughout the factory.
  • Ensure that you walk the talk and use the looking eyes, attend to the issues as and when they happen.
• The daily site walk must deliver a clean, tidy site all over.
  • Ensure that you are the focal point for the team.
  • Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values.
  • To ensure the use of other group resources to ensure synergies are carried through, driving knowledge and issues to be shared.
  • Briefing & de-briefing the team on daily basis.
• Stores Engineering stock is accurate and is kept at a controlled value, at the same time ensuring critical spares are available.
  • Risk assessment of all critical spares.
  • Know what has been used and ordered daily.
  • Create links with other sites where it is feasible to not duplicate stores stock.
  • Ensure redundant stock does not build up.
• Maintenance Tasks.
  • Ensure the maintenance plan has purpose, that it evolves to allow the maximum time available for production, no strip and rebuild for the sake of it! Only replace worn/ broken parts – condition based rather than planned based maintenance.
  • Drive the tasks through required work from observations and data, not just theoretical plans.
  • Full evaluation of, cost, availability and requirement to decide if run to failure or replace.
  • Maintenance always follows production, not the other way around.
  • Ensure that maintenance tasks adhere to company’s food safety polices at all times.
  • Ensure all working practices comply with company rules and procedures in order that you and any other persons using the area of work can do so safely.
  • Always keep full and up to date records of all equipment to ensure traceability.
• Projects.
  • Evaluate all tasks against cost, time and quality for internal or external completion.
  • Detailed supplier specifications completed for all equipment projects, more upfront detail results in less work later.
  • Closely manage time scales, costs and deliverables maintained to ensure all projects meet expectations, are on time and within budget.
• Budget.
  • Treat all spends as if they are your own.
  • Manage cost daily.
  • Accountable for all departmental spends.
  • Manage, monitor and control costs to ensure that site costs are within budgeted requirements.

Measurable Outcomes

• Down time
  • Balance between planned & reactive
• Zero rejections for product food safety and quality issues due machinery
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Waste driven by poor equipment performance
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Daily, weekly, monthly production targets are fully met
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Costs are maintained at/below budgeted levels
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Direct Team to receive a performance review
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Training and development plans in place for all team, producing measurable business benefits
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Quality and improvement initiatives being implemented
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Reduction in accidents and incidents on a YOY basis
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• An improving trend on the submitted weekly KPI’s
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Projects delivered on time within budget
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive
• Drive actions from quality benchmarking
  • Down time balance between planned & reactive

Behaviors and Core Values

• Must consistently showcase the desired behaviors that represent our Core Values.
  • We Take Ownership
    • Stay committed to responsibilities from start to finish
    • Make sound decisions and get into the right level of detail
    • Apply resources to initiatives that add growth, improve efficiencies, or reduce waste
  • We Do What Is Right
    • Choose transparency over convenience, even if it means difficult conversations
    • Set clear roles and responsibilities, enabling everyone to exercise appropriate initiative and judgment
    • Speak up when you see something that does not align to our values and policies
  • We Seek to Improve
    • Strive to continuously improve and innovate to exceed expectations
    • Value feedback from others and encourage open dialogue to understand how we can improve
    • Learn from both successes and failures
  • We Are Better Together
    • Ensure decisions are based on what's best for the whole business
    • PRACTICE INCLUSION BY SEEKING DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES
    • TREAT EVERYONE WITH FAIRNESS AND RESPECT
    • Work together to ensure smooth production and packaging