Manufacturing Officer

Job description

OVERVIEW

Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. On any given day, 2 billion people use Unilever products to look good, feel good and get more out of life.

For Unilever, Beverages is part of a newly defined global Category called “Foods and Refreshment”. Unilever is #1 and #2 in most of their markets and have some of the world's biggest and best-loved brands like Lipton, Magnum and Ben and Jerry's. Refreshment is defined in Unilever as a ‘Win Decisively Globally' category and is a €10 billion business.

Tea is the second most popular Beverage in the world, behind just tap water, and Lipton is the 2nd biggest beverage brand and three times bigger than the next closest competitor in Tea. With over 100 years of delighting consumers, recent trends of consumers moving away from high calorie CSDs (carbonated soft drinks) and juices due to sugars, puts the Tea category and Lipton in the perfect position to see significant growth. With new technology as means to further entice consumers in this migration, only makes the potential and probability of success even greater.

Lipton Soft Drinks Ireland is a factory of around 25 employees based in Carrigaline, Co. Cork. Here we make tea kits, these raw materials are sent to bottlers around the globe who add water, sugar and acids. One kit produces 15,000 litres of ice tea. The factory produces these kits for countries all over the world.

JOB PURPOSE

The role is focused on running the day to day operations of the site with interfaces into safety, quality and engineering. Apart from that the role has also a strategic focus to continuously improve line efficiencies and to develop a manufacturing strategy for the next years.

This is a temporary role for 12 to 18 months.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

· Labour planning and HR management (Manage and develop human resources across two shift operations with 18 employees)
· Production and raw material planning
· Raw material procurement from 3rd party flavour houses
· Day to day Operational management incl. OEE monitoring and recording
· Work collaboratively with Safety Officer to resolve near misses, unsafe acts, unsafe conditions and safety tags
· Work collaboratively with Engineering Specialist to improve site and line efficiencies and reduce waste
· Work collaboratively with Quality Officer to resolve any quality issues
· Create and Implement lean manufacturing best practices to continuously improve line efficiencies
· Improve and drive Autonomous Maintenance activities
· Develop manufacturing strategy

KEY COMPETENCIES

· Shop floor Leadership experience
· Supplier and Contractor Management
· Microsoft excel

QUALIFICATIONS

· Relevant Supply Chain Degree

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

· 3-5 years supply chain/operations experience in a similar role
· Engineering background and knowledge of lean manufacturing practices are an advantage

TRAVEL

· Occasional travel within Europe