Engineering Manager – Home Care

Unilever (Thailand) (Lat Krabang)

Bangkok, Thailand

Unilever Thai Group of Companies is a fast-moving consumer goods company with a strong presence in Thailand for more than 80 years. Unilever offers Thai consumers a wide range of leading brands in four categories; Home Care, Personal Care, Foods and Ice cream products. Our Thai portfolio includes major brand icons such as: Comfort, Lux, Vaseline, Citra, Sunsilk, Clear, Pond’s, Dove, Axe, Rexona, Close Up, Breeze, Omo, Sunlight, Knorr, Wall’s, Magnum, Cornetto, Lipton and luxury division Unilever Network. Unilever Thailand employs around 4,000 people and generated annual sales of Baht 40,000 million in 2014.

About this position

Be responsible for resource management of repair maintenance all machinery and equipment in production area, as well as leading the automation and other transformation projects in the responsible plants.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead PM strategy, prepare and execute the optimized annual Mechanical, Electrical and Instrument control for repair & maintenance budget for production
• Ensure the minimized machine downtime (MTBF, MTTR) and the maximized machine efficiency, safety and productivity by PM strategy, recommendations as well as providing the training series to production team
• Initiate and lead the projects on Energy Efficiency & Sustainability programs
• Lead PM Pillar in WCM programs as well as initiate the activities related to PM pillar to build the capability of people and efficiency of machines. Integrate PM Pillar’s activities with other WCM pillars such as Safety/ Quality improvement and cost optimization program
• Optimize the resources (budget, people, parts, etc.) to maximize the plant engineering capability by execute the planned budget, prioritize the projects and expenses, manage the engineering manpower to get the best results
• Build the capability of engineering team and make them possess the “multi-skill”
• Build the knowledge management culture in Engineering team using WCM tool such as LUTI (Learn-Use-Teach-Inspect).
• Build digital factory mindset and in-house software integration using the knowledge of basic data science to identify the necessary area, data needed and tools required
• Build data trend analysis for condition-based maintenance measurement
• Cooperate the automated machines installation using complex knowledge and coding as well as lead the maintenance of these machines
• Drive the factory transformation through the automation roadmap
• Responsible for all aspects of the day to day management of projects including stakeholder engagement, contractor management, site safety, budget management.

Requirements

• Strong interpersonal skills. Able to build relationships with and influence stakeholders, including staff, internal and external partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and Thai.
• Strong project management, planning and organising skills. Able to prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly.
• Demonstrated proactive approach to problem-solving with strong decision-making capability.
• Highly resourceful team-player and able to lead the team of technicians.
• Flexible and adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/ client service and response.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Forward-looking – ac