Rigids Area Engineer

Unilever; Hinoba-an; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever is seeking a Rigids Area Engineer in Cavite (onsite) to lead maintenance technicians and shifters, ensuring safe, efficient production and uptime adherence to plans. The role focuses on eliminating breakdowns, enhancing maintenance practices, and driving automation and controls improvements.

You will coach teams, ensure training, and apply predictive and preventive maintenance, while collaborating with cross-functional teams and reporting to line management.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required with professional engineering status preferred.
• Extensive maintenance experience in FMCG/related industries.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to visualize the ideal production system and establish standards.

Responsibilities

• Coach and guide maintenance technicians to meet timelines and quality.
• Assess skills gaps and drive training interventions.
• Provide equipment and training to ensure safe practices and environmental compliance.
• Eliminate losses using PM, FI and QC pillar tools and methodologies.
• Ensure equipment availability to meet production plans and apply PM methodologies.
• Review autonomous maintenance entries for accuracy and timeliness.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Project delivery

Maintenance principles

Analytical thinking

Communication

Contract management

Budget management

Operating principles

Data-driven decisions

Education

Engineering degree (Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical)

Tools

Allen-Bradley

Omron

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 & Conflict Resolution

• Budget Management

Experience Required

ESSENTIAL

• 5+ Years experience of Maintenance Experience in FMCG / related Industry

• Significant Hands-on Maintenance experience

• Good to have attained Professional Engineer Status (Or member of professional institution)

PREFERRED

• FMCG experience and/or Unilever Exposure

• Manufacturing & Technical background is required

• Experience in automation and controls: Allen Bradley, Omron, etc.

• Experience in AM, PM, Quality and FI tools and processes.

• Confident in applying problem solving tools (5W1H, 4M, 5WHY etc.)

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bring in their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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