BWPC Design Engineer, EWA

Unilever is currently hiring for Beauty & Wellbeing & Personal Care Design Engineer

Reports to: Technical Excellence Manager

Scope: Regional

Location: East/West Africa

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

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 an engineer who is enthusiastic to learn and to render services to provide and facilitate safe and efficient plant manufacturing plants and to achieve the factory performance improvement ambitions in the areas of quality, machine reliability, efficiency and cost, then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Lead and guide teams for design elements (GMP, core design & product standards compliance) in Capacity and Innovation projects from BG (Business Groups), Beauty & Wellbeing & Personal Care, process and product technology standpoint across EWA (East & West Africa) cluster
• Develop concept & detailed design for BG (Beauty & Wellbeing & Personal Care) specific projects
• Support execution, commissioning & handover of key projects
• Responsible for value-engineering and capital efficiency in projects designs
• Responsible for LCC, right-sizing, asset-sweating, debottlenecking for major projects
• EWA BG CAPEX Control forecasting & interface with global BG finance for budget allocation and update
• Coordination with BG leads and local finance partners for budget allocation, update and capitalization
• Consolidate budget target & expenditure, track and drive forecast accuracy
• Key member of efficiency & waste improvement agenda
• Skill enhancement through training & coaching of operations teams
• Be flexible and able to work across the different BGs, technologies and countries within EWA.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 5-year experience in factory operations for Beauty & Wellbeing & Personal Care category
• Hands-on experience in manufacturing – production, maintenance, engineering, etc
• Familiarity with a variety of concepts, practices, and procedures of FMCGs
• Machinery & Process safety experience

Skills

• Engineering Project management
• Process Engineering understanding
• Project Delivery
• Basic financial acumen
• Leadership & Conflict Resolution
• Budgeting, Cost or Spend Management
• Accountability & responsibility
• Energetic and good communicator
• Team player and collaboration
• Data analysis & Digital knowledge
• Maintenance, reliability & loss analysis

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
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

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.