Automation / Electrical Engineer at Nigerian Bottling Company

Job Reference: AE/02/2017
Functional Areas: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing

Job Details The Automation Engineer reports to the Plant Engineer and the key responsibilities of the role are:

• Ensures optimized equipment performance by maintaining / improving equipment and line controls.
• Drives innovation and improvement.
• Manages people and resources to ensure uncompromised safety, availability and quality while minimizing the impact on the environment.
• Participates in organization - and executes annual overhaul of production lines.
• Improves reliability and efficiencies by ensuring optimal execution of maintenance tasks.
• Participates in developing business plans targeting productivity improvement and increased cost efficiency
• Contributes to preparation- and controls area of responsibility related maintenance budget ensuring sufficient funds to cover all routines and initiatives reflected in strategy & operational plans.
• Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects
• Effectively applies business performance review (E2020) management routine
• Optimizes the availability of assets to operation
• Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data&
• Maintains effective systems to ensure CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Prepares, presents and interprets Maintenance KBI's, makes recommendations which result in increased productivity and efficiency; reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction Achievement of business targets by optimal use of labour and materials
• Analyses cost centre variances and investigates ways to improve cost performance
• Understands and controls main cost drivers in Maintenance
• Ensures full use of SAP Plant Maintenance module to be able to monitor cost and execution of maintenance activities
• Builds maintenance teams' capabilities through implementation of training and development programs
• Ensures IDP's are in place and executed for all direct reports
• Ensures training programmes are attended by all nominated team members.
• Follows up implementation of leanings
• Develops unit capabilities to achieve maximum utilization of technology and equipment
• Effectively applies approved selection and development tools for recruitment and development of employees
• Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance and develops successors
• Communicates unit strategy and ensures that all unit members understand and accept it
• Leads processes, systems and people side of all change initiatives in the unit
• Sets stretching but achievable objectives for all people in the unit
• Addresses poor performers quickly at all levels
• Engagement plan implementation leads to constant Engagement index improvement
• Lives and promotes company values and culture, and helps employees to understand and embrace them
• Personally lives the Company values and Code of Business Conduct and demonstrates them consistently
• Implements performance management systems with discipline in order to ensure that all first-line managers deliver full performance
• Regularly updates team members on company processes, changes and initiatives 
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers, peers, institutions, suppliers
• Builds productive relationships with the employee/ union representatives
• Builds and re-reinforces relationships with Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Production Planning
• Ensures continuous process improvement by exploring Group and industry benchmark and employees input
• Listens to and encourages employee recommendations and implements the ones delivering values quickly
• Learns and implements best practices from outside and shares own best practices within CC Hellenic
• Promotes process automation and use of technology
• Ensure all Health, Safety & Environment policies and procedures are in place and followed
• Ensures all work is carried out in a safe and appropriate manner by maintenance personnel and service/contractor personnel
• Ensures Maintenance impact on environment is minimized and within the CC Hellenic and regulatory limits
• Implements and provides disciplined monitoring and reporting regarding the implementation of labour legislation, certification standards, CC Hellenic/TCCC CSR Practices and international agreements
• Plays a leading role in implementing communication and actions which put the Quality First (product, behaviour, communication, etc.)
• Ensures property and loss prevention

Desired Candidate Profile

• University degree in Electrical/Controls/Electronics/Automation Engineering required .
• 5 years working experience in the field of Automation in Industry dealing with Siemens & Omron PLCs, Danfoss, Omron, Siemens variable fre drives VFDs, sensors, PLC programming skills and ability to effectively read and understand wiring plans plus PLC user programs and comments thereof.
• Experience in budgeting Experience in people management
• Experience in execution of projects such as: line commissioning, annual maintenance planning Basic Knowledge of a bottling organization: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety Operational planning expertise/experience
• Delegation skills Understanding of financial impact of decisions
• Ability to think in terms of functional sustainability rather than short term wins
• Ability to select and assess first-line managers
• Coaching direct reports and mentoring others
• Ability to empower managers
• Ability to translate function strategy into unit/section's plan
• Ability to lead and manage change
• Ability to set standards for management performance
• High integrity Ability to build relationships to improve results
• Ability to understand what drives peers in other units
• Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things
• Intellectual curiosity
• Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy
• Ability to implement quality and health, safety & environment improvements