Ice Cream Maintenance Engineer - Unilever : Job Details

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We're on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers' businesses. Growing our people's careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments and having fun doing it.

With 19,000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall's, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry's, loved in 76 countries, we are the world's largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.

If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you!

The Maintenance Engineer role is an essential part of ensuring the facility is a world class manufacturing site. The role will focus on elimination of breakdowns, improve reliability, and maintaining basic conditions through use of Focused Improvement methodology. The Maintenance Engineer will develop and implement predictive and preventative maintenance techniques, to help reduce reactive maintenance situations.

Working with cross-functional teams such as, Operations, Quality and Manufacturing Excellence, the Maintenance Engineer will help develop root cause analysis skills, provide technical training for maintenance teams, and establish lasting counter measures.

This role will lead the Professional Maintenance Pillar initiative, building maintenance KPI's that will drive continuous improvement, while implementing solutions that will improve reliability, efficiency and cost.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

(NOTE: The duties listed below are normal for this job. Incumbents are cross-trained and may perform any combination of the following duties/responsibilities. These duties are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.)

• Continuously strive to increase the efficiency and reliability of equipment in their area of focus.
• Support maintenance team in troubleshooting, finding/procuring parts, or escalating issues as required.
• Provide troubleshooting support across the entire facility, (possibly outside of normal working hours).
• Work through root cause analysis with cross functional teams to determine actions and implementation plan.
• Troubleshoot PLC program issues, and update as needed.
• Perform audits on LOTO procedures and update with the SHE dept. Develop procedures that do not exist.
• Update and report out on current state KPI's and plans to improve, MTBF, MTTR, PM Compliance, Inventory and repair costs.
• Work with the storeroom and maintenance planner to ensure the correct parts and qty of parts are being stocked for each machine
• Work with the maintenance supervisors to track breakdowns and develop countermeasures for repeat issues.
• Develop short, and medium term plans to improve equipment reliability.
• Working as a team with Supervisors, Technicians, and Operations to plan, procure and document activities for the enhancement of machines.
• Working with the maintenance team to improve operations productivity and quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning, parts, material, tools and equipment access.
• Reviewing, developing and/or modifying PM work orders for all equipment.
• Contacting vendors and manufacturers as needed for support in resolving issues.
• Assisting in the development and implementation of reliability centered maintenance strategies.
• Drive the implementation of the PM Pillar activities, machine logs, downtime analysis, part lifecycle and various other tools.
• Develop maintenance IoT tools and roll out across the site.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Technical degree in an engineering field OR at least ten (10) years of experience as a maintenance technician/supervisor/engineer in fast paced manufacturing environment.
• Controls/Automation experience with a strong preference to Allen Bradley controls.
• Strong proven troubleshooting skills
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Ability to coordinate and communicate with teams working different shifts across a 24/7 schedule.
• Willing to support off shift, hours and holidays as necessary to support business needs.
• Experience reading and following electrical and maintenance schematics/blueprints.
• Must be capable of working independently and in a team environment.
• Experience making reliability/maintenance decisions to meet needs.
• Proven track record of implementing improvement ideas.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Lean Manufacturing experience
• Project management experience

Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compare rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but involved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What You Need To Succeed:

Leadership: You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

The Ice Cream Way:

• We genuinely care: We foster a fun and inspiring workplace, in which we are safe & welcome to bring our unique selves, so we can all raise to our full potential.
• We deeply connect: We form personal and meaningful connections across our IC community and collectively work towards a shared aspiration, building on each others' super power .
• We truly value: We see and support everyone's distinct impact and embrace our collective edge, while celebrating moments that matter and taking pride in winning smiles in the world, we touch with ice cream.

What We Can Offer You:

Leadership, culture for growth, top notch employee health & well being benefits, every voice matters, global reach, life at Unilever, careers with purpose, world class career development programs, check out our space, focus on sustainability.