Manufacturing Engineer

Report to: Business Development & Engineering Manager

POSITION PURPOSE

• Ensure New Product Development (NPD’s), Productivity, Quality improvement, GAPs closing (related to HSE, Quality) projects, as requested by company, are executed on-time and within-budget, delivering the physically desired finished products. This role will manage capital investment projects, leadership during concept/design stage and execution at highest level of efficiency, quality, and employee safety. Identifies cost-effective, high-savings productivity solutions and develops projects to improve performance, product quality, safety and sustainability, yield and manufacturing cycle time.

• This role will also ensure to coordinate with all plant projects and plans, to ensure objectives are aligned across all categories, with the ultimate aim of meeting the plant’s CAPEX/Expense Budgets.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Capital Project Development, Coordination, and Assessment

• Lead IIM process within the plant.

• Represent the plant in discussions with supplier, regarding all Productivity - related projects

• Ensure all plant functions are aligned on project, and collect relevant input from those plant-functions, to be delivered to the customers for Project Development Requests (PDR’s) and Launch Requests (LR’s).

• Ensure project creation, approval and implementation (in coordination with Business Development-Engineering); fully meeting the needs and purposes of the project and success criteria which aligned with cross function

2. Technical Expertise

• Lead and collect technical input for Projects, during initial discussions with cross function, and during detailed discussions with plant functions and supplier.

• Coordinate with Business development (BD) during the detailed preparation of I2M projects, including Capital Appropriation Request (CAR) write-ups, approvals, equipment purchase, equipment installation, and final equipment & process commissioning.

• Provide technical expertise during the evaluation of offers for Capital projects, as well as during the equipment installation and commissioning.

• Detail design with supplier and conduct design lock with cross functions

3. Budgeting

• Ensure project are budgeted and executed within the agreed budgets.

• Ensure projects are developed and executed within agreed financial budget.

• Coordinate with BD for pre-engineering and cost-calculations, expenditure planning, and overall project scheduling.

• Approve capital appropriation requests, ensuring cost and timing alignment with approved LR’s.

4. Installation and Know How Transfer

• Ensure that relevant know-how is known by project team and adequately utilized.

• Methods of statement and project timeline aligned with all cross functions.

• Coordinate with cross functions during the installation of new equipment/machinery, infrastructure, as well as during the commissioning phase with the afore-mentioned team to ensure target performance is achieved as planned.

• Reaction timely with changing and corrective action for unplanned issues during execution phase

5. Contracting Suppliers

• Research and identify potential suppliers, in line with Mdlz policies and supplier management strategies, to increase the plant’s “library of knowledge” of technical requirements and solutions for the processing of the widest possible range of products within the currently produced categories

• Co-ordination with Procurement to facilitate initial contact with suppliers, as well as ensuring supplier-specific requirements/conditions are met in the issued orders, if acceptable to Mondelez…

6. People Management

• Lead project-implementation team at the plant (including equipment purchase and installation), ensuring the I2M timeline is executed as planned.

7. Presentations and Periodic Reporting

• Toolbox meeting with vendor to update current status and timely update corrective action

• Follow-up, and periodically publish updates on the projects’ requirements, timelines, costs…, as well as relation to other projects:

+ Periodic Updates and Actual projects’ requirements in terms of equipment and resources

+ Periodic Updates and Actual projects’ execution costs and time-frames

8. Continuous Improvement

• Participate in screening and evaluation of all identified improvement opportunities and ideas. Creatively group those ideas into technically feasible concepts. Share and communicate potential concepts to identify potential projects.

• Develop and monitor the following KPI’s: Gross savings of productivity

9. GMP/MIA/ ISO Audit Expectations

• Observes Good Manufacturing Practices by following its guidelines to protect the company products from possible contamination and rejection.

• Reports all deficiencies contrary to Mondelēz audit expectation by informing his immediate superior of such defect or gap so that appropriate corrective action could be immediately made to avoid, if not aborted, further damage to the operations.

• Ensures that ISO/ MIA guidelines / procedures are observes by following strictly the Engineering procedures and work instruction in order to pass ISO/ MIA audits

10. Safety/ Health/ Environment Affairs

• Ensures that all plant equipment, facilities, utilities related to projects comply with statutory regulations, company policy, Mondelēz Engineering Standards in order to provide safe working environment.

• Observes a safe working environment by following guidelines in using the proper wearing of personnel protective equipment while in the plant and by reporting to his immediate superior all unsafe acts and conditions to protect himself from accidents and the company assets from damage as well as the safety of his colleagues

• Participants in environment and health affairs by promoting awareness and refraining from acts, which are detrimental to the environment and health in order to ensure compliance to administrative and government regulations

• Bachelor's degree or higher education degree in Engineering

• Min 4 years of work experience as Manufacturing Engineer or equivalent roles at any FMCG (pref. food manufacturing) plant

• Good knowledge of MS Project, excellent Project Management skills

• Fundamental know-how & experience in food processes and products

• Good communication and negotiation skills

• Excellent written and spoken English Language