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A Fast-Growing Food Manufacturing Company
Equipment Engineer
Nairobi • Kenya
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Profession (Mid-level)
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Industry (Mechanical engineering, Mid-level)
Seniority (Mechanical engineering)
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British American Tobacco
Manufacturing
Description
Education / Qualifications / Experience Required
- Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering or any other related field
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
- Good Interpersonal skills: Effective communication and influencing skills
- Leadership skills: Ability to inspire people, deliver confident growth and lead change
Functional skills required
- Solid knowledge of LDR, ORG, E&T, AM, PM, LE IWS pillars with experience in shop floor problem solving
- Foundational understanding of Quality Management Systems
- Foundational understanding of Manufacturing Sustainability KPI’s and key drivers
- Mastery of operations strategy development and deployment in alignment with corporate strategy
- Program management involving cross departmental teams & multiple stakeholders
- Basic knowledge of key financial statements and links between Operations & Business performance
Responsibilities
- Daily consultative reviews with teams/individuals in their small group activities to support elimination of daily/weekly performance losses in the factory.
- Touring one department/one team/one line to understand the IWS progress, execution status, help needed and reapplication opportunities.
- Coordinate with site pillar leads to ensure all current phase DMS’s/SWP’s are embedded to standard with an effective tracking system (DMS/SWP workbook).
- Conduct 90 day planning cycles for own pillar/systems and review for other pillars/systems for alignment to the site master plan.
- Work closely with site pillar leads to ensure site is receiving effective guidance/coaching and leads on best-in-class systems/tools for reapplication.
- Support site Pillar and DMS owners in driving good health of the pillar and systems through consistent health check reviews with action plans for gaps identified.
- Maintain the IWS organizational chart (Pillar Leads, Members, System/Tools Owners) aligned with IWS Manager and Factory Manager expectations and drive qualifications through E&T pillar.
- Alignment and maintenance IWS calendar to enable 100% attendance of key stakeholders to drive total employee involvement/ownership.
- Facilitate quarterly IWS pillar phase assessment and ensure plan adjustments are in place to keep IWS program on track.
- Ensure all the necessary IWS learning materials are available to local teams and communication of new training materials in IWS OTH.
- Coordinate with functional leads in establishment of current state of phase skill matrix qualification, development and execution of site training master plan to bridge capability gaps.
- Promote development of capabilities necessary to manage the controls environment in operations through Operations Controls Stewardship SWP.
- Facilitate annual loss analysis event.
- Work with Operations Leadership and Make Leadership team to facilitate annual SDDS deployment.
- Be the secondary contact for Area/Regional IWS leaders on site IWS progression.
- Participate in onboarding and early development of operations new joiners in terms of development of their IWS capability to current phase and role requirement.
- Provide publicity, general education and other communication that increase IWS understanding and accelerate progress across the site.
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