Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer, Epping Plant, Cape Town

Job posting closing date: 6th August, end of day

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

The Reliability Engineer must ensure a specific focus area of the Manufacturing Operations’ assets is managed, maintained and operated at maximum efficiency. Enabled by digital analysis, the manufacturing process on all assets is controlled and continuously improved so that quality and efficiency is improved in accordance with the operational excellence and reliability pillars.

In this role, you will

• Perform a leadership role and influence for all engineering resources.
• Responsible for owning and improving reliability of equipment and initiatives in driving CI.
• Capable of leading and motivating and influence a team by setting objectives and driving performance management.
• Train, develop and up skill personnel by means of on-the-job as well as technical and generic training.
• Manage Reliability and CI Projects on equipment.
• Manages contracts and contractor control procedures and rules for the department.
• Requires understanding of Environmental, legal and K-C statutory requirements.
• Ensure assets and equipment are maintained in a “Safe to operate” condition at all times while promoting all aspects of safe working practices to meet all safety and housekeeping objectives of the plant.
• Contribute to the development of sound safety programmes and maintenance of good working conditions, adherence to organization and legal safety rules and regulations.
• Continually comply with all K-C regulatory & control requirements, internal controls, while at all-times driving accountability and compliance on the assets and equipment.
• To optimise the specific manufacturing process through the design of new mechanical process systems together with optimization / maintenance of existing process systems to achieve optimum plant and process reliability according to K-C Reliability Pillars that supports P2030.
• Provide communication on equipment related issues; work with Engineering / Operations to identify development opportunities to improve MTBF and put improvement action plans in place.
• Give feedback on uptime initiatives to improve outputs and identify solutions to equipment related problems.
• Manage and optimize the PM system and replacement of all parts in accordance with the relevant Planned Maintenance schedules
• Provide technical information to the maintenance teams detailing work requests for planned and reactive maintenance.
• Give direction to the team regarding prioritisation of efforts towards preventative maintenance shuts, process improvements and trouble shooting.
• Ensure effective management of Preventative Maintenance systems.
• Plan, organise and control all equipment reliability activities through FEC process.
• Analyse and interpret data to enable technical teams to achieve performance targets in accordance with P2030 and Manufacturing best practice.
• Initiate and participate in improvement discussions to improve spare parts life cycle.
• Analyse maintenance trends and breakdowns providing the necessary input and analytics around business intelligence to predict and discuss possible improvement projects as well as cost relevant to life cycle management and replacement.
• Formulate, develop, and drive opportunities within engineering, supported by digital analysis and interpreting data to deliver improved efficiencies.
• Ensure adequate spare parts are ready and available for maintenance and breakdowns inline with the budget.
• Develop relationships with equipment vendors to reduce costs and increase reliability of assets and equipment.
• Liaise with Process Engineer to schedule trial activities.
• Manage changes in process requirements brought by changes in product specifications and productivity requirements.
• Identify issues which affect stable processibility and opportunities for improvement through modifications and upgrades.
• Liaise with Process Engineer to schedule trial activities.
• Manage changes in process requirements brought by changes in product specifications and productivity requirements.
• Identify issues which affect stable processibility and opportunities for improvement through modifications and upgrades.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Baby Soft®. Kotex®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In this manufacturing role, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following:

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• BEng Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Essential: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience – engineering and maintenance in a FMCG environment
• Excellent knowledge in FMCG / manufacturing machines
• Lean manufacturing and process improvement experience (LSS problem solving – Green Belt) - essential
• Project management skills
• Experience with a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and SAP PM.
• Excellent design, process improvement and maintenance
• Implementation of a change management process

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

And finally, the fine print….

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to developing a diverse workforce. Preference will be given to candidates who promote representation within Kimberly-Clark in terms of the Employment Equity Act.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise.

We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to relevant background checks carried out in South Africa.

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