Maintenance Assistant Manager

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are passionate about optimizing machinery performance, leading maintenance teams, and ensuring a safe, efficient production environment, then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Work collaboratively with operations managers to improve overall site efficiencies and reduce breakdowns through implementing UMS (Unilever Manufacturing system) for the assigned pillars.

• Manage the department budget and work on cost optimization agenda.

• Manage the technical teams responsible to deliver Projects, Innovation, Infrastructure and Services to the site

• Liaison with projects team to deliver factory initiatives, innovation, and savings OTIF.

• Create and implement plans to continuously improve site infrastructure needs such as energy, water, treatment, steam and all infrastructure services, contracts, and contractors.

• Build and support on SHE & PSM compliance.

• Risk Assessment – Risk & Mitigation Plan Control.

• Build and transform future fit maintenance Team & deploy future Engineering and digital Transformation agenda.

• Maintain Engineering Database (Technical and Legal Requirement)

Outputs / performance Metrics

• ZERO TRFR, ZERO ABC incidents

• Delivery of Performance Metrics for PM (Asset Reliability, MTBF, MTTR ,OLE, etc )

• OTIF delivery of innovations and factory transformational projects.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

• Professional Engineering Skills (Educated to degree standard in an engineering)

• Project Management (Working Knowledge)

• Maintenance Principles and Best practice (Fully Operational)

• Budget Management (Fully Operational)

• Ability to travel

• Attained Professional Engineer Status (or member of professional institution)

• Firsthand experience & proven track record of delivering projects and leading operations.

• Team Management and Development capability

Experiences & Qualifications

• 5+ Years experience of Engineering/ operations management in FMCG / related Industry

• Experience working on significant projects and operation management

Skills

• Purpose & Service

• Personal Mastery

• Agility

• Business Acumen

• Talent Catalyst

• Consumer Love

• Passion for High Performance

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.

  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.

  • TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.

  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

  • CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

  • BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

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 bringing 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.