Powder Lead

Unilever is currently hiring for Powder Lead

Based in Unilever Minburi Factory, Thailand

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Job Purpose

The Powder Lead is a management professional with a good technical understanding of manufacturing, general engineering, and warehouse management & operations for Mixing & Packing. To lead and manage a team of operators ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency standards are met. Moreover, this role is to lead the transformation project at Home Care Powder Production.

Main Responsibilities

Production Management

• Provide the governance function for a cluster of semi-autonomous teams, delivering management and leadership support for performance monitoring, overtime allocation, working patterns and dispute resolution. 
• Lead improvement projects for operational processes
• Understand the factory’s financial situation and use the training in UMS methodologies and IP processes to drive the AM team’s work to counter losses and eradicate waste
• Lead projects to support factory initiatives
• Provide common standard of communication and engagement across the factory.  Liaise closely with the core factory functions, including Leadership Team of Manufacturing, HR, Quality and Safety to achieve this
• Oversee daily production activities, troubleshoot issues, and ensure targets are met

Warehouse Management

• Lead and develop the eventual success of SAP in site planning operations
• Overlook the administrative work of the department and help improve way of working towards digitalization.
• Have minimum possible material inventory and ensure stock control is accurate and well mange, consumption are traceable
• Support rapid implementation of logistic innovations

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

• Engineering education background
• Possess managerial experiences for at least 5 years
• Have practical experience of applying autonomous maintenance strategies within manufacturing, general engineering, preferably FMCG
• Experienced working a fast-paced, dynamic and complex setting

Skills

• Must be able to converse in English
• Strong coaching, influencing and leadership skills
• Knowledge of the end-to-end manufacturing processes relevant of:
  • Preventative maintenance schemes and condition monitoring
  • Principal factory controls (e.g. for HPC; spray drying, soap making, batch & continuous mixing of liquids and bottle, sachet, bar and pouch filling machinery)

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