Senior Factory Engineering Manager

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. 

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers. 
 

Position Summary:

 
Key Responsibilities:

People:

• Define, propose and monitor the implementation of the Factory Engineering teams plans and objectives in accordance with the Engineering Policy, Key Principles and the Key Engineering Activities as outlined in the Nestlé Engineering Excellence (NEE) master document. 
• Live Nestle leadership principles in all aspects of the role.
• Set the technical strategic vision for the factory, leveraging other functional leaders and cascade objectives to all leaders in engineering department, within factory cost targets. 
• Develop and maintain technical competencies at the factory, including detailed action plans, accountability to progress, talent review, career and succession planning. 

Maintenance and Improvement:

• Drive equipment reliability through implementing maintenance foundations in TPM.
• Build cooperation and collaboration with the production and other cross functional teams to build world class operation.
• Improve maintenance cost structure by improving technical skill sets and optimizing 3rd party spend.

Project Management:

• Implement Nestle capital process to drive excellence in capital execution.
• Proactively develop, maintain and execute the capital market business strategy (MBS) to align with the business needs. 
• Drive factory master planning to facilitate long term strategies across the factory for example in Safety, Quality and Warehouse. 

 Industrial Services/Sustainability:

• Ensure full compliance with all governing bodies for utilities system relevant to the Modesto site. This is paramount and non-negotiable to have strong understanding in these utilities system. 
• Maintain reliability through implementing maintenance foundations and TPM methodology.
• Develop and maintain all skillset necessary for internal management of utilities systems. 
• Drive and execute plant sustainability objectives in line with market targets.
• Drive world class water management in the factory

Electrical & Automation:

• Drive reliability in all electrical components in the factory 
• Develop and drive automation plan for the factory
• Ensure full compliance with Nestle standards including calibration
• Develop technical skills in maintenance to ensure electrical reliability

Process & Packaging Optimization:

• Drive Innovation/Renovation, initiating/coordinating implementation of new processes/technology with relevant Market, Product Technology Center, Corporate and Strategic Business Unit.

Expected Tools to leverage:

• Cascaded objectives to all leaders that a