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providing advice, assistance and guidance where required\nEvaluates impact of new plant and equipment, and signs off all plant and equipment modifications\nAnalyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance and initiates opportunity evaluation\nAnalyses plant failure modes and investigate causes for repeat failures to correct root causes\nTakes part in evaluating continuous improvement opportunities identified by the production teams or engineering support\nEnsures that continuous improvement is built into engineering team goals and forms part of regular goal review sessions\nTeam Leadership\nLead the engineering team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction\nLead the development of engineering team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members\nConduct regular engineering team goal review sessions, and conduct regular one on one and performance reviews\nEnsure training need analyses are 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