Technical Manager - Food

Job Title : Technical Manager

Location: (Punjab)

Reports to: Plant Manager

1. Main Duties and Functions

Build the yearly investment plan for the 5 Capex categories based on:

- Markets needs in term of new products or additional capacity

- Factory needs for continuous improvement of its S.Q.C.D.M.E performance

- Assets protection needs and maintenance upgrade,

- Automation & IT equipment needs

- Organize and drive internal and external resources to manage the projects portfolio in the investment plan

- Ensure compliance with client project management methodology for Capex (Sherpa)

- Ensure Time/Cost and Quality commitments are met for all projects all along their timeline

- Ensure constant projects stakeholders involvement and consistent projects KPIs reporting

- Share and develop Engineering Best practices, promote and implement Technical Standards in collaboration with Engineering Managers network (local & central)

- Build effective relationships with Central Engineering, R&D, QA, Marketing, Activity Managers and participate in regular meetings / forums in the context of the CBU Product Innovation process

- Play an active role in CBU cross-functional teams & forums to promote, exchange and develop innovation

- Develop functional and managerial skills of team members and set up their individual development plan

- Preparation of annual budgets for the department focusing productivity projects and adherence to the approved Opex.

- Drive the factory Maintenance policy in its 3 dimensions:

Preventive:

- Planned maintenance to prevent machine breakdown

- Work orders in place with tracking system

- Production line shutdown optimization

- Cost optimization in labor and spare parts

Curative:

- Excellence in execution of breakdown repair

- Reports on work, time spent and used spare parts

- Spare parts inventory optimization

- Follow-up of work reports and Production Efficiency to take corrective action when gap with PE target

Improvement:

- Maintenance KPIs follow-up in order to track any opportunity for improvement in maintenance, work efficiency and cost

- Active participation in the Maintenance network to share, develop and implement Maintenance best practices

- Manage the Factory energies to ensure 100% energy supply service to production at the best possible cost and with the minimum CO2 footprint

- Excellence in energy equipment daily operations

- Efficient and cost effective Maintenance plan

- Drive for continuous energy consumption reduction in factory and CO2 footprint reduction

- Manage the Maintenance and Energy contractors on site, following client's Contractors Management and Safety guidelines

- Build and monitor the yearly factory maintenance and energy budget

2. Job Specifications:

Education Background :

- Graduate/PG in Mechanical Engineering

Skills Needed:

Proximity Leadership & Large Team Management

Experience Needed (Professional) :

- 10+ years rich experience in food industry, Dairy will have an advantage.

Core Functional Competencies to be successful on the job

- Business & Ecosystem partner

- Manufacturing Strategy & Network Design

- Process & Project Excellence.

- Performance Management

- Innovation & Renovation