Plant Maintenance Lead (Engineering Manager)

THAI UNION GROUP PCL. (Samut Sakhon)

Samut Sakhon, Thailand

We are a global seafood leader with ambitious growth goals and a dedication to sustainability and innovation. Our portfolio of brands includes convenient consumer favorites that have brought nutritious and tasty seafood to tables around the world for over a century.

About this position

The Plant Maintenance Lead (Engineering Manager) is responsible for driving strategic and tactical decisions for the plant's maintenance, ensuring effective maintenance practices, promoting engineering standards, managing capital projects, and leading a motivated team to achieve plant objectives.

Responsibilities

• Strategic direction: Drive strategic & tactical decisions for plant’s Maintenance and align resources to deliver key functional objectives in alignment with TU strategic goals.
• Effective maintenance: Maximize reliability and effectiveness through enforcing effective maintenance, repairs and overhauls practices while optimizing for cost.
• Common engineering standards: Promote and ensure adherence to defined engineering and maintenance standards.
• Capital projects management: Drive execution of plant-led capital projects adhering defined standards; support execution of BU-led capital projects.
• People: Motivate, lead and challenge team members to reach / exceed plant and individual targets and objectives. Improve and sustain employee engagement scores to be within the top quartile. Develop strong internal leadership pipeline and set positive working culture with teams across Thai Union.

Requirements

• Ability to lead and motivate teams, build a diverse and trust-based leadership team, and develop local talent.
• Displays proficiency in engineering principles, maintenance practices, project management, and equipment design, with the capability to identify and analyze complex problems and develop effective solutions.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking and ability to develop / prioritize long-term plans for improving manufacturing processes, equipment, and utilities while maintaining compliance with safety, quality and regulatory standards.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical information to team members, stakeholders, and upper management.
• Strong interpersonal skills to foster a culture of collaboration and effectively drive cross-functional projects.