Pack Plant Engineer

Join us as Packaging Engineer

Function: Supply Chain

Reports to: Site Engineering Manager

Scope: Local

Location: Gauteng, Boksburg Factory

Terms & Conditions: full time onsite and must have own transport

JOB PURPOSE

This role exists to Prioritize and allocate resources for maintenance of packing plant equipment in order to ensure safe and optimum machine reliability and availability. You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters — for people and the planet. Because here, we don’t just hire jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Safety:
• Ensures that OHS Act and the company safety rules and procedures are adhered to within the area of responsibility.
• Identifies risks for maintenance/factory activities and addresses them
• Budget:
• Controls and executes work against budget and authorize spending within authority limits.
• Plans and proposes maintenance budget.
• Finds opportunities for budget reduction and savings projects without an impact on Reliability
• Projects:
• Acts as Maintenance representative on site projects and conducts forward planning to help filter out the relevant and important projects in the department.
• Guarantees Early Equipment Maintenance implementation at beginning of the project
• Plant Availability:
• Ensures that machines are maintained as required and according to the maintenance schedule (current improvement methodology on site is World Class Manufacturing)
• Develops and implements maintenance projects and standards by sourcing and evaluating materials and allocating and staff.
• Ensures that the spares required for maintenance are available and are procured according to quality specifications
• Ensures that breakdowns/ adjustment losses are handled promptly and proper root cause analysis (RCA) is done
• Manages action plans from maintenance activities (condition-based maintenance, Maintenance Tags, RCA)
• Ensures that engineering-related losses are identified and eliminated/reduced
• People:
• Lead a team of approximately 20 artisans and apprentices.
• This will include driving a professional Engineering culture that involves solving problems promptly and properly, at a high technical standard.
• Team management also includes setting up targets, monitoring performance and motivating the team

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc/ BTech in Electrical, Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years Packaging Engineering experience within FMCG/ Manufacturing environments
• Packaging background and working knowledge
• Proficient leadership and management experience across strong Teams, Stakeholders and Suppliers/ Third Parties/ Contractors

Unilever is an equal opportunities employer and committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.  We are intentional in employing the best talent that reflects the demographics of our country, and which will help build representation of currently under-represented groups. We therefore invite applications from all candidates representing diversity of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. When appointing potential candidates, the South African Employment Equity and Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Legislation will be considered.  

We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. If you are applying as a foreign national, please note that you may be requested to provide supporting documents supporting this.

This is a factory-based role in Johannesburg (Boksburg Factory) and requires 100% of time attendance on site.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.