Production Engineer at Adexen

Industry: Industry & Manufacturing
Job Seniority: Mid level
Job Category: Engineering and Production

Job Introduction

• Adexen was mandated by a leading manufacturing company to recruit a Production / Process Engineer. The position is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Responsibilities

• To plan, organize and control the production facility of the lines in order to produce the required products within agreed quality and cost specifications
• Ensuring training of personnel to new technologies
• Ensuring that the Company’s Safety policy and procedures are adhered to and are communicated to the workforce effectively
• Managing the identification and rectification of safety issues including analysis of safety results and incidents
• Ensuring all accidents, incidents, and near misses are recorded, investigated, and closed off in a timely manner
• Maintaining 5S housekeeping standards
• Ensuring that the correct Quality standards are complied with
• Developing and implementing operating methods and procedures to improve product quality
• Ensuring training is conducted to the correct standards and competency levels
• Ensuring SHEQ Management and compliance within his perimeter of activities
• Maintaining, reviewing and developing the Quality Management System to establish and maintain quality standards
• Motivation of personnel
• Maintain good industrial relations between factory staff and management
• Leading and coaching Team Leaders, subordinates and supervisory personnel on company’s values
• Participation to recruitment and selection of new employees
• Conducting performance appraisals for direct subordinates
• Ensuring training programs are developed and adhered to
• Organising and controlling the production facility to produce at the correct quality, correct cost and at the correct time.
• Developing and motivating production staff to achieve agreed objectives regarding efficiency, quality, industrial relations, health and safety.
• Ensuring plant performance OEE target are adhered too.
• Reviewing and analysing production, quality data to determine causes of  non-conformity by using internal CI tools (R-EWO, QP-EWO, HER-CA and A3)
• Ensuring the implementation of all standard practices in the plants.
• Optimising production process that results in the effective use of raw materials both in terms of quality and cost.
• Management of labour costs and shift structures through the monitoring and control of overtime.
• Managing the BOM’s, routing’s and production versions in SAP of his lines.
• Managing AM/PM pillar with the maintenance team
• Managing manufacturing variances and identifying corrective actions.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Engineer degree, preferably a master’s degree in engineering or operations management
• Extended Industrial experience: min 10 years in a continuous manufacturing or process industry of which min 5 years in a leadership production position.
• Possess Technical skills with good knowledge industrial process and equipment. (pumps, conveyor systems, valves, load cells,..)
• Outstanding acquaintance with safety, health, and environment regulations
• Experience of implementing TPM, Lean or Six Sigma would be an advantage
• Computer literate (Microsoft package and SAP)

Skills:

• Production Management, Factory, Process Control, Process Engineering, Manufacturing