Engineering Maintenance Lead

Job Title: Engineering Maintenance Lead
Location: Gateway, Cavite

The primary role of Maintenance Lead is to direct and guide area engineers and maintenance technicians, 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.

Maintenance Lead 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 Maintenance Lead 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 the Maintenance Lead 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 preventative 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).

Qualifications:

• Professional Engineering Skills, hold engineering degree (Mechanical. Electrical, Chemical)

• Project Delivery

• Maintenance Principles and Best practice (Fully Operational)

• Contract Management & Conflict Resolution

• Budget Management

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

• 2+ years’ operating in a management capacity

• Significant Hands-on Maintenance experience

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

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