Head of Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence - Ice Cream

at  Unilever

SMED

• EtC
• Continuous Improvement Methodology (UMS).
• Virtual Sites WoW and best practice sharing.
• Technology aspects embedded in EEM, to deliver new projects OTIF.
• End-to-end SC touching Customer Service, Suppliers, etc.
• HR for Factories and template factory organization and blue-collar skills development.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in operations / engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant Supply Chain experience with focus on Engineering, Manufacturing and Operations.
• 8+ years as a manager or in leadership position, including responsibilities for the oversight of a team.
• Experience optimizing supply chain integrated performance and setting a strategic vision.
• Empowerment, Experimentation and Collaboration a must.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• MBA degree.
• Prior IC experience.
• Head of Factory experience. Proven track record of leading hourly team members.

BACKGROUND & PURPOSE OF THE JOB

This role will be the Head of Manufacturing Excellence and Engineering for the Ice Cream NA Business Unit. This role will lead the following areas:

• Business Case development for innovation and cost transformation.
• Factory of the Future definition
• Collaborative Manufacturing Engineering Support
• Continuous Improvement in Factories using continuous improvement methodologies.

THIS ROLE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING:

• Collaborate with central Engineering on engineering master plans for factories.
• Form a dedicated engineering team comprising both internal and external engineers and provide leadership to the team to execute the infrastructure strategy.
• Define equipment needed for the factory of the future agile or high-speed equipment for both internal warehouse and production operations.
• Define the glide path for the factory of the future by location to include Industry 5.0 technologies and inclusive of people
• Ensure the basics of continuous improvement are implemented in the factories:
• Run to Standard
• Maintenance Excellence

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop and execute the engineering plan stemming from the North American infrastructure and network study.
• Develop and lead a team of internal and external engineering teams.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on execution.
• Effectively communicate the progress against the plan.
• Ensure that proper vertical startup and penalty clauses and adherence with engineering contractors and OEMs.
• Deploy UMS training material to support the rollout of the program in the factory.
• Deploy Tools and Methods (toolkits) to attack the major losses supporting and maintaining the standardization across the factories in the cluster.
• Drive the deployment of MMP standards set up and coherent application. Analyze and report continuous improvement savings.
• Scale specific factory’s UMS solutions (best examples/practices) across the categories, virtual sites, and other capabilities (SHE- Quality). Support expansion of effective solutions.
• Expand the loss management framework beyond Manufacturing and have KPIs for interfaces with Manufacturing (OR losses).
• Exploit new continuous improvement tools available in the market.
• Support Customer Service to eliminate CCFOT Losses.
• Support Categories to Implement Sourcing Strategy.
• Influence and obtain a commitment from SCLT, cluster/country SC VP’s and peers, SU Directors to the manufacturing agenda.
• Develop and manage Manufacturing skill base and talent.