Senior Manager Factory Engineering

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The Senior Manager, Factory Engineering position is responsible for managing the engineering activities relating to the factory and provide professional engineering and strategic technical leadership in the Factory, ensuring people health and safety, product safety and environment are never compromised. Strategic leader for engineering function, leveraging Nestle’s leadership principles in the following areas; capital execution, asset maintenance and utilities excellence, engineering compliance, and sustainability.

• Define, propose and monitor the implementation of the Factory Engineering teams plans and objectives in accordance with the Engineering Policy, Key Principles and the Key Engineering Activities as outlined in the Nestlé Engineering Excellence (NEE) master document.
• Live Nestle leadership principles in all aspects of the role.
• Set the technical strategic vision for the factory, leveraging other functional leaders and cascade objectives to all leaders in engineering department, within factory cost targets.
• Develop and maintain technical competencies at the factory, including detailed action plans, accountability to progress, talent review, career and succession planning.

• Drive equipment reliability through implementing maintenance foundations in TPM.
• Build cooperation and collaboration with the production and other cross functional teams to build world class operation.
• Improve maintenance cost structure by improving technical skill sets and optimizing 3rd party spend.

• Implement Nestle capital process to drive excellence in capital execution.
• Proactively develop, maintain and execute the capital market business strategy (MBS) to align with the business needs.
• Drive factory master planning to facilitate long term strategies across the factory for example in Safety, Quality and Warehouse.

• Ensure full compliance with all governing bodies for utilities system relevant to the Modesto site. This is paramount and non-negotiable to have strong understanding in these utilities system.
• Maintain reliability through implementing maintenance foundations and TPM methodology.
• Develop and maintain all skillset necessary for internal management of utilities systems.
• Drive and execute plant sustainability objectives in line with market targets.
• Drive world class water management in the factory

• Drive reliability in all electrical components in the factory
• Develop and drive automation plan for the factory
• Ensure full compliance with Nestle standards including calibration
• Develop technical skills in maintenance to ensure electrical reliability

• Drive Innovation/Renovation, initiating/coordinating…