Utilities Manager

Elanco Tiergesundheit AG; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Utilities Manager, where you'll lead a dynamic team dedicated to ensuring the seamless operation of essential utilities. This role focuses on maintaining safety, quality, and efficiency while fostering an inclusive environment for professional growth. You'll be at the forefront of innovation in animal health, contributing to a mission that enriches lives through improved animal welfare. If you're passionate about leadership and operational excellence, this opportunity is perfect for you to make a significant impact in a thriving industry.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills to guide a diverse utilities team.
• Experience in performance management and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Utilities team ensuring safety and quality standards.
• Manage performance and development of team members effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Performance Management

Coaching

Operational Excellence

EHS Compliance

Technical Knowledge

Communication

Education

BEng/BSc in scientific or engineering discipline

Tools

CHP (Combined Heat & Power) plant management

Job description

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Position Description:

To lead the Utilities team and ensure that the routine operational requirements are met and that there is a focus on continual improvement. Act as leader and coach of the Utilities team providing direction and support to:

1. Ensure that the Utilities are produced and distributed in a manner that meets the Safety, Quality, Cost, environmental and service requirements.
2. Ensure access to equipment in order that maintenance activities and programs are carried out in a proactive and compliant manner to improve Safety, Reliability, Quality, and Efficiency.
3. Oversee all aspects of the Utilities shift operations function including labor resource management that ensures operational standards and key result areas are achieved via Shift Leader Group.
4. Ensure 100% service and continuous utility supply to the internal customer 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
5. Act as a point of contact for our internal customers in the event of any interruption in utility supply, maintaining good communication with internal customers.

Functions, Duties, Tasks:

1. Leadership and Direction setting: Establish clear goals and expectations for the team and provide inspiration and consistent encouragement to meet goals including measurement against achievable targets.
2. Manage: Performance management process, ensuring all members of the operations team have clear objectives, agreed development plans, and progress is tracked through regular 1:1 and formal check-ins. Manage Pro-time and OTS and absence management of operations team. Provide contractor assessments for temporary employees. Assign and review learning plans for all operators and ensure all are fully trained to carry out their jobs.
3. Coaching: Serve as the coach for a substantially self-directed team by developing capabilities of team members and supporting team needs through role as representative of the team to the site and other groups.
4. Financial: Ensure optimum production and distribution of the site utilities, having responsibility and management control for identified team expense budgets. Ensure the shift group supports the implementation of initiatives related to cost reduction/waste minimization.
5. Operational excellence: Formulate & implement Utilities team strategic business planning process. Ensure services provided by the team to site meet their needs for Safety, Quality, Reliability, in a cost-effective manner.
6. EHS: Accountable for ensuring that Environmental, Health & Safety standards are achieved and maintained. Support the work necessary to meet EHS/PSM requirements.
7. Legionella: Responsible for aspects relating to the ‘control of legionella’ in Cooling Tower Systems.
8. PSM: Utilities Representative on the Site PSM steering committee, when required.
9. Energy Centre: Accountable for the Management of the CHP (Combined Heat & Power) plant through a third party. Ensuring that the third party meets their contractual obligations and driving them for continual improvement.
10. Technical: Act as a focal point for the team in providing focus for process and technical input. Ensure that routine activities are conducted in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures and cGMP guidelines.
11. Communication: Network with internal customers and external suppliers to maximize overall effectiveness of the services provided by the utilities team.
12. Trade Effluent and Energy Management Oversight: Identifying efficiency improvements and working with cross-site teams to ensure opportunities are explored/implemented.

Minimum Qualification (education, experience and/or training, required certifications):

- BEng/BSc in scientific or engineering discipline

Delegation of authority:

- In the absence of the Utilities Manager, delegation of authority will sit with the Fermentation/Recovery Director or Snr Director of Operations.

Other Information:

The (Utilities) team has responsibility for supplying the site with primary utilities:

• Cooling Water
• Chilled Water
• Glycol
• Steam
• HP Air
• Nitrogen

Reporting to the Snr Director of Operations, the Utilities Manager is responsible for a team consisting of:

1. Utilities Operations
2. Process Engineer
3. Maintenance Support Engineer
4. Oversight of the Energy Centre through a 3rd party contract.

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

About Us

Elanco Animal Health Incorporated (NYSE: ELAN) is a global leader in animal health dedicated to innovating and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets, creating value for farmers, pet owners, veterinarians, stakeholders, and society as a whole. With nearly 70 years of animal health heritage, we are committed to helping our customers improve the health of animals in their care, while also making a meaningful impact on our local and global communities. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching life and our Elanco Healthy Purpose CSR framework – all to advance the health of animals, people and the planet. Learn more at www.elanco.com.