Maintenance and Process Manager Role
The role of a Maintenance and Process Manager is critical to the success of our operations. This individual will be responsible for overseeing maintenance activities, both reactive and preventive, at our site. They will work closely with internal teams, contractors, and third-party maintenance providers to ensure that all equipment performance meets or exceeds required KPIs.
Key Responsibilities:
* Ensuring Equipment Performance: The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that manufacturing equipment performance meets or exceeds all required KPIs.
* Strategies for Technicians' Training: The candidate will provide strategies to ensure that all technicians have identified training needs and support ongoing skills enhancement of maintenance team members.
* Planned Preventive Maintenance: They will ensure that planned preventative maintenance is executed according to plan and plans are in place to ensure regulatory conformance at all times.
* Continuous Improvement: Periodic maintenance systems review, identification, and execution of continuous improvement projects focused on equipment performance, application of best practice maintenance strategies to sustain these improvements long-term.
* Maintenance Work Quality: Ensuring that all maintenance work performed onsite exceeds Health & Safety and Quality requirements.
* Maintenance and Reliability Initiative: Driving the Maintenance and Reliability initiative focused on Preventive & Predictive Maintenance, not reactive.
* Maintenance Department Procedures: Overall responsibility for adherence to site Maintenance Department procedures.
* CMMS Systems Ownership: Owner of CMMS systems (Pemac) for Maintenance Function.
* Maintenance Technician Management: Managing maintenance technician group.
* Maintenance Procedures: Managing, maintaining, and establishing maintenance procedures for production lines in a GMP manufacturing environment to ensure production meets or performs better than budget.
* Process Optimisation: Responsible for end-to-end process and plant optimisation across production, filling, and packing, utilities, and milk intake.
* Technical Support: Act as Process SME and lead technical support for all production impacting issues.
* Performance Standards: Establish performance standards and optimise performance across all processes in the plant.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with stakeholders including Quality and Production teams in the prioritisation, development, design, and testing of new or enhanced processes.
* Change Control: Utilising the relevant Change Control Systems, secure approval for implementing change.
* Production Team Collaboration: Work with Production team to plan and execute agreed changes.
* KPI Data Monitoring: Monitor MES KPI data for individual processes, including reporting and trending of data.
* Data Insights: Utilise data insights to recommend interventions to drive performance.
* Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting issues and identifying opportunities to enhance plant performance and drive KPI improvement.
* Documentation: Ownership of process-driven documentation, including design, development, and roll-out of Standard Operating Procedures, Process documentation (including log books), and training documentation.
* QSM Documentation: Completion of QSM documentation relating to Change Control, Event Reports, RCAs etc for specific processes.
* Change Control Leadership: Take leadership role in Change Control for specific processes.
* Training: As Subject Matter Expert for specific processes, work with training to design, plan, and deliver training to new and existing employees and take a lead role in technical competence assessment of Trainees.
Requirements:
* Lead Maintenance Experience: Experience in lead maintenance role in a food manufacturing or pharmaceutical environment.
* Engineering Qualification: Third-level qualification in Engineering/Science or a related discipline.
* Organisational Skills: Advanced organisation and planning skills.
* RCA Tools Knowledge: Demonstrated knowledge of RCA tools (Root Cause Analysis) and lean manufacturing techniques.
* Communication Skills: Ability to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
* Lean Manufacturing: Experience in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Process Improvement, or product development, is desirable.
* Results-Driven: Results driven, customer focused with high performance capability in a fast-moving challenging business environment.
* Technical Ability: Demonstrate strong technical ability and attention to detail to do the job at a high level of accomplishment.
* Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to bring people together for the best outcomes.
* Data Analysis: Ability to analyse data, recognise trends, and recommend actions to drive continuous improvement.