Rigids Area Engineer

unilever; Cavite City; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever in Cavite, Philippines is seeking an Area Engineer to lead maintenance teams, drive reliability, and improve uptime. The role focuses on coaching technicians, enabling training, and applying predictive and preventive maintenance methods to reduce breakdowns and improve efficiency.

The candidate will collaborate with line crews and cross-functional teams, implementing automation improvements and data-driven countermeasures to sustain cost-effective operations while meeting production

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required with Professional Engineering Skills.
• Strong troubleshooting and maintenance principles.
• Ability to visualize and define ideal production systems.

Responsibilities

• Coach and guide Maintenance Technicians and shifters to meet timelines and quality.
• Identify skills gaps and arrange timely training interventions.
• Provide equipment and training to ensure safe practices and environmental standards.
• Eliminate Loss using PM, FI and QC pillars and methodologies.
• Ensure equipment availability to meet production plans using UMS PM Methodology.
• Validate operator autonomous maintenance standards with line managers.
• Review DMS entries for accuracy and timeliness and take corrective action.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Implement preventive, predictive maintenance and design/automation improvements to strengthen basic conditions.
• Extend good practices to other lines.

Skills

Analytical capability

Leadership

Coaching

Root cause analysis

Safety mindset

Education

Engineering degree (Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical)

Job description

Job Title: Rigids Area Engineer

Location: Gateway, Cavite (Onsite)

The primary role of Area Engineer is to direct and guide maintenance technicians & shifters, so the team can perform their work assignments efficiently and in a safe manner. This includes ensuring technicians have the required training and skills to perform work that meets all appropriate standards. Area engineer is also responsible for ensuring that the uptime of equipment and assets is adequate to meet production plans. They contribute to improvement initiatives by continuously improving maintenance procedures and technology.

The Area Engineer role will focus on elimination of breakdowns and maintenance of basic conditions through use of Focused Improvement and Quality improvement methods including implementation of countermeasures that simplify processes, utilize predictive / preventative maintenance effectively and introduce increased automation and controls.

Working directly with the line crews, maintenance team, and cross-functional teams he/she also acts in support of technical training for maintenance team and provides coaching in phenomena identification, root cause analysis and the establishment of countermeasures.

This role also has responsibility and support for preventive maintenance functions to improve reliability, efficiency and cost.

Key Accountabilities

• Use experience and expertise to coach and guide assigned work of Maintenance Technicians within expected timelines to the quality required
• Assess skills gaps and seek to close these through timely and appropriate training interventions.
• Provide appropriate equipment and training to ensure safe working practices are upheld and environmental standards are adhered to.
• Eliminate Loss according to the UMS prioritization process using PM, FI and QC pillar tools and methodologies.
• Ensure equipment is available to meet production plans by applying the UMS PM Methodology.
• Validate standards applied by operators performing autonomous maintenance tasks and review with First Line Managers in production as necessary.
• Review entries in DMS for accuracy and timeliness and take action where required.
• Assess opportunities for continuous improvement in both preventive and predictive maintenance and build in to ongoing plans
• Implement preventative, predictive maintenance and design / automation improvements to maintain basic conditions and increase MTBF
• Identify and extend good practice to other lines.

Key Performance Indicators (as driven by Cost Deployment Analysis):

• Breakdowns (PM Loss), MTBF, Maintenance Cost
• Benefit/Cost Ratio (a. For projects led b. Measured against salary).

Spare parts cost reduction.cians & shifters, so the team can perform their work assignments efficiently and in a safe manner. This includes ensuring technicians have the required training and skills to perform work that meets all appropriate standards.

Key Competencies

• Consumer & Customer Focus. Building world-class factories will eliminate losses and ensure that we do not pass on the cost of inefficiencies to our customers and consumers.
• Bias for Action. By providing consistent and near real time information, decisions can be taken quickly which leverage our resources. Action minded individual.
• Building Talent & Teams. Our vision is to move to semi-autonomous teams, and we require Maintenance Lead with a passion for achieving results through great teamwork, an ability to teach new tools and methodologies and ensuring that you and your colleagues are fully aligned and drawing on one another's strengths.
• Accountability & Responsibility. Taking responsibility for building your team's performance and sharing your best interventions to help support other lines in their improvements.
• Growth Mindset. By building world class factories, we will become more competitive in the marketplace and set standards to which others aspire. Apply the full set of UMS methods and tools to identify root causes, define countermeasures and validate their effectiveness; Establish standards to support line operators and mechanics sustain new basic conditions.
• Process and Organizational Design. Leverage technical knowledge and a systems approach to ensure factory lines and processes are optimally resourced (e.g. manpower ratios are efficient and sustainable).
• Analytical capability. Collect and analyze complex data to penetrate phenomena and understand root causes.

Professional Skills and Qualifications:

• Professional Engineering Skills, hold engineering degree (Mechanical. Electrical, Chemical)
• Project Delivery
• Maintenance Principles and Best practice (Fully Operational) - Strong troubleshooting skills
• Able to visualize clearly what the ideal production system is
• Able to clearly understand operating principles and establish correct operating standards.
• Able to present findings and rationales clearly so that the whole factory team can understand.
• Able to make logical decisions based on data.
• Contract Management & C