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This includes ensuring technicians have the required training and skills to perform work that meets all appropriate standards. Area engineer is also responsible for ensuring that the uptime of equipment and assets is adequate to meet production plans. They contribute to improvement initiatives by continuously improving maintenance procedures and technology.\nThe Area Engineer role will focus on elimination of breakdowns and maintenance of basic conditions through use of Focused Improvement and Quality improvement methods including implementation of countermeasures that simplify processes, utilize predictive / preventative maintenance effectively and introduce increased automation and controls.\nWorking directly with the line crews, maintenance team, and cross-functional teams he/she also acts in support of technical training for maintenance team and provides coaching in phenomena identification, root cause analysis and the establishment of countermeasures.\nThis role also has responsibility and support for preventive maintenance functions to improve reliability, efficiency and cost.\nKey Accountabilities\nUse experience and expertise to coach and guide assigned work of Maintenance Technicians within expected timelines to the quality required\n\nAssess skills gaps and seek to close these through timely and appropriate training interventions.\n\nProvide appropriate equipment and training to ensure safe working practices are upheld and environmental standards are adhered to.\n\nEliminate Loss according to the UMS prioritization process using PM, FI and QC pillar tools and methodologies.\n\nEnsure equipment is available to meet production plans by applying the UMS PM Methodology.\n\nValidate standards applied by operators performing autonomous maintenance tasks and review with First Line Managers in production as necessary.\n\nReview entries in DMS for accuracy and timeliness and take action where required.\n\nAssess opportunities for continuous improvement in both preventive and predictive maintenance and build in to ongoing plans\n\nImplement preventative, predictive maintenance and design / automation improvements to maintain basic conditions and increase MTBF\n\nIdentify and extend good practice to other lines.\n\nKey Performance Indicators (as driven by Cost Deployment Analysis):\n\nBreakdowns (PM Loss), MTBF, Maintenance Cost\n\nBenefit/Cost Ratio (a. For projects led b. Measured against salary).\n\nSpare parts cost reduction.cians & shifters, so the team can perform their work assignments efficiently and in a safe manner. This includes ensuring technicians have the required training and skills to perform work that meets all appropriate standards.\n\n Key Competencies\nConsumer & Customer Focus. Building world-class factories will eliminate losses and ensure that we do not pass on the cost of inefficiencies to our customers and consumers.\n\nBias for Action. By providing consistent and near real time information, decisions can be taken quickly which leverage our resources. Action minded individual.\n\nBuilding Talent & Teams. Our vision is to move to semi-autonomous teams, and we require Maintenance Lead with a passion for achieving results through great teamwork, an ability to teach new tools and methodologies and ensuring that you and your colleagues are fully aligned and drawing on one another’s strengths.\n\nAccountability & Responsibility. Taking responsibility for building your team’s performance and sharing your best interventions to help support other lines in their improvements.\n\nGrowth Mindset. By building world class factories, we will become more competitive in the marketplace and set standards to which others aspire. Apply the full set of UMS methods and tools to identify root causes, define countermeasures and validate their effectiveness; Establish standards to support line operators and mechanics sustain new basic conditions.\n\nProcess and Organizational Design. 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