Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

Senior Engineering managers plan, coordinate and oversee the technical and engineering activities of the organization. Responsible for planning engineering projects and overseeing the efficient running of projects, including providing supervision and guidance to other engineers. The incumbent is responsible for planning and coordinating production activities related to maintenance, power station and electricity, utilities, and water supply in such a way that manufacturing operations can run in an undisturbed and sustainable way. This role includes spare part management and boiler operation.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, control, and monitor the execution of engineering support activities for production functions to ensure that the needed support is provided according to the needs and company budget
• Plan, control, and monitor implementation of maintenance and repair of utilities (boiler, electricity and water) in production functions to ensure that production operations can run in an undisturbed and sustainable way
• Oversee and manage boiler operation
• Plan, control and monitor the spare part usage
• Evaluate and analyse Engineering activities, capabilities, performance and budget, take preventive and corrective actions in maintenance planning and activities where needed, develop and implement optimizations and innovations
• Ensure right organization, capacity, capabilities and motivation in production support organization and compliance to local regulations and functional policies
• Drive together with Production managers the identification of improvement opportunities, prioritizes them based on impact on production plan and ensures development of action plans and their implementation
• Effectively represent customer (production) needs in Engineering projects, ensuring requirements/ acceptance criteria are fully understood and project budget control
• Ensure EH&S policies and procedures are adhered to within Engineering Team
• Ensure key site wide performance and quality issues are identified, targeted, and systematically reduced or eliminated so as to improve factory performance and reduce waste

About you

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical management
• Minimum 5 years experience in Managerial position of maintenance / Engineering department for customer goods industries
• Fully understanding on technical side of production operations
• Strong leadership and managerial skills
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities