Job Description
Coca-Cola Kwanza Ltd has an exciting opportunity in the Manufacturing Department. We are looking for a talented individual with the relevant skills and experience in Manufacturing for a Unit Manager - Utilities & Processing position, which will based in Dar es Salaam. The successful candidate will report directly to the Manufacturing Manager.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Manage Asset Care within the Utility and Processing department
- Ensure the necessary capacity and capability to implement an Asset Management strategy
- Ensure that maintenance plans exist for all equipment in utilities and processing
- Manage engineering risk and the Asset Management Integrity
- Evaluate OEM audit reports and manage correction actions.
- Evaluate the availability of critical stock items and facilitate adjustment when required.
- To drive WCM initiatives in the Utility and Processing environment
- Leads the WCM change management processes
- Drive innovation, improvement, and agility through change leadership
- Formulates work practice deployment plans and ensures that plans are executed
- Drives a problem-solving culture
- Conducts work practice maturity assessments on a regular basis to ensure that best practices are being applied and are entrenched
- Benchmarking best practices (internal and external)
- To manage and support team leaders and team to achieve production, maintenance, and quality targets in a cost-effective manner
- Deviations from the production plan, maintenance plan, quality, safety, and housekeeping standards are discussed, explained, and actioned together with the Team Leaders, daily
- Support is specific to the problem, effective & timeous
- Work instructions are in line with The Coca-Cola Quality System requirements and good manufacturing practices
- To formulate and control expense and capital budgets so that expenses are planned for and managed effectively within budgetary parameters
- Expense and capital budgets are formulated in line with financial guidelines, production budget and with the business plan
- Manage Capex budget process
- Budgeting to be benchmark driven
- Capital expenses are assessed, and recommendations are made to appropriate person
- To encourage, assist, support, and coach Team so that departmental targets, performance, and future challenges are achieved effectively
- Optimise individual and team performance and development
- Supports, coaches, and encourages the Team Leaders to use the Supply Chain ways tools as per the guidelines and specified intervals
- Develop positive work relationships through ethical and energizing leadership, and collaboration
- Diverse opinions and cultures of Team are being respected
- Team relationships are underpinned by trust
- To sell, manage, implement, and actively support change interventions and projects to encourage the unit to internalize the change to meet operational targets
- Continuous understandable communication about reasons for change, processes involved, effects, benefits, etc.
- Effectiveness of change intervention is measured, and results are fed back to team
- Individual differences within the team are valued and recognized
- Team leaders are committed to and enthusiastic about the change intervention
- To solve systemic problems to save costs, minimise risk and losses and to improve productivity in line with benchmarks
- Manage the optimisation of total usage of energy and water for the Plant
- Optimise plant to control raw material usage, Management of by-products and controls.
- Drive improvement process to achieve savings in energy and water consumption.
- Ensure compliance to Safety and Statutory requirements
- Ensure a responsible approach to EOSH and Plant house keeping
- Ensure compliance to Country safety legislation.
- Ensure compliance to The Coca-Cola Requirement on safety, environmental and quality systems .
- Ensure statutory and legal maintenance complied to within Utilities equipment
Skills, Experience & Education
The incumbent should have at least a Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical &Processing, Industrial); 3 – 5 years as maintenance controller, specialist in utilities area with production and leadership experience in a FMCG environment. Strong communication skills, good leadership qualities, good analytical skills, and a demonstrated high level of integrity.