Project Manager at Unilever

Job Purpose:

• Leveraging maintenance performance indicators, shape maintenance programs by providing technical input to maximize asset utilization after installation.
• Ensure equipment is designed, selected, purchased and installed based on life-cycle considerations and “total cost of ownership”.
• Monitor and manage the effective and efficient performance of equipment installed or upgraded.
• Ensure all projects are delivered with project scope, time, cost and safely.
• Establish, track and review KPIs for equipment performance with the Maintenance Supervisor.
• Utilize information available through the Capacity Tool exercise to assess equipment utilization.
• Implement condition-based monitoring to help eliminate unplanned maintenance downtime.
• Review maintenance schedules to assess equipment conditions, requirements of tools and technologies and amend preventive and predictive maintenance plans with the planner as needed.
• Identify solutions for equipment that does not perform as expected within current PM schedule.
• Act as local expert on CMMS and ensure accurate and effective data capture.
• Monitor spare part management and dispose of obsolete items.
• Liaise with Category Technology to ensure core designs are adopted.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology developments and the required skills.
• Manage 3rd party contractors and ensure Unilever standards are met.
• Support Finance by establishing cost / benefit reviews of maintenance activities including assignment of tasks and applying ECRS (Eliminate, Combine, Reduce and Simplify) to activities.
• Ensure equipment runs as designed and meets standards for nominal speed, etc. to maximize equipment capacity.

Qualification:

• BSC/HND Mechanical Engineering degree Experience: Minimum of 6 years in maintenance engineering, Project management and Inventory management in Manufacturing Industry.
• Project Management Certification is a must. Good knowledge of AutoCad, word, Excel, MS Project, Powerpoint presentation and SAP (Plant Maintenance and Purchasing), e-mail and spreadsheet