Manufacturing Manager - Fatty Acid & Hydrogenation

Unilever; Kota Medan ᯔᯩᯑᯉ᯲; On-site; IDR 300,000,000 - 420,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever in Indonesia seeks an experienced Plant Operations Leader to safeguard process safety, quality compliance, and production efficiency. You will drive cross-functional coordination to hit delivery schedules, manage raw materials, and optimize costs.

Your leadership will shape workforce plans, training, and performance management to ensure zero accidents and full product compliance. The role demands eight years in manufacturing/oleochemicals, engineering fundamentals, and fluent English

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in manufacturing or oleochemicals.
• Strong knowledge of process engineering, maintenance management, and SHE standards.
• Knowledge of oleochemical processing and hydrogenation, including hydrogen and catalyst handling.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, Halal, Kosher, FSSC 22000, GMP, and Unilever Safety Standards.
• Strong process-safety awareness, operational judgment, and problem-solving ability.
• Good English, communication, interpersonal, presentation, and public-speaking skills.
• Excellent leadership, analytical thinking, stakeholder management, coaching, and team-development skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with quality, food safety, environmental, occupational health and safety, and process-safety requirements.
• Stop plant operations in emergencies and lead incident response, reporting, mitigation, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate across departments to achieve production volume and capacity-utilization targets and meet delivery schedules.
• Control raw materials, operating conditions, repairs, product quality, yield, losses, waste, and utility efficiency.
• Establish workforce plans, work assignments, and performance expectations for the production team.
• Build team capability through training, coaching, mentoring, and competency-development plans.
• Review production, quality, and employee performance; implement improvements, recognition, discipline, and career plans.
• Maintain a clean, orderly, and safe workplace and review environmental and safety impact assessments.
• Make timely operational decisions to prevent accidents, equipment damage, and production downtime.
• Prepare and manage operating budgets, control conversion costs, and lead profitability improvements.
• Deliver zero accidents, 100% product compliance, no contamination or customer complaints, and budgeted production, cost, yield, and loss targets.

Skills

Leadership

Process safety awareness

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Public speaking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

ISO 9001

ISO 14001

ISO 45001

GMP

Halal

Kosher

FSSC 22000

Unilever Safety Standards

Job description

Unilever in Indonesia seeks an experienced Plant Operations Leader to safeguard process safety, quality compliance, and production efficiency. You will drive cross-functional coordination to hit delivery schedules, manage raw materials, and optimize costs.

Your leadership will shape workforce plans, training, and performance management to ensure zero accidents and full product compliance. The role demands eight years in manufacturing/oleochemicals, engineering fundamentals, and fluent English