Focused Technician- 1st Shift

Title of role: Focused Technician

Pay:  $35.88- 37.44 per hour, paid weekly

Base wage- $35.88  hour

After successful evaluation period, wage increases to $37.44

• Perfect Attendance Incentive - perfect attendance gives opportunity to earn additional time off or attendance point removal

• Volunteer Shift Incentive - voluntarily working extra shifts during business needs gives opportunity to earn additional time off or attendance point removal
• Monthly bonus payouts

Shift: 1st Shift 7:00AM- 3:15pm, Monday through Friday

Background & Purpose of the Job: Unilever Jonesboro provides a holistic and hygienic choice of personal care brands that benefit the mind, body, and health of consumers while minimizing environmental footprints and promoting the individual growth of our people.  Our "mission of wellbeing" is quickly becoming the new status symbol for health and beauty. 

The Focus Technician (FT) is a member of the cell that directs, coaches, and leads other Technical Operators across all shifts. FT works as the liaison between manufacturing and maintenance departments and accountable for the delivery of the proper maintenance to the equipment on the manufacturing site. Established standard operational and safety procedures will be followed, employees will apply technical knowledge and skills, and occasionally may be required to modify standard practice and procedures.

Their focus is to lead the Maintenance and Production team in continuous improvements activities around Budgeting, Preventative Maintenance, Focused Improvement, and development of Maintenance Technician and Operators engaged to optimize the running and maintenance of equipment within the factory.  

Location of the job: Jonesboro, AR

Overall Benefits & Perks (non-union)

Medical, Dental, Vision effective immediately | 401K | Profit Sharing | Tuition/Fitness Reimbursement | Paid Leaves | Monthly Bonus Payouts | Uniforms and PPE provided| Career Advancement Opportunities*

Additional Perks for the “Jonesboro” location

• Safety shoe and prescription safety glasses subsidy
• Onsite Company store with opportunity for friends/family to shop
• Subsidy for Uniform shirts- Employee picks style (dri-fit material, long or short sleeves, polo shirts, etc.)
• Company dinners and fun engagement activities periodically
• Free fresh popcorn
• Free coffee

What You’ll Do:

• Work as the liaison between manufacturing and maintenance departments and accountable for the delivery of the proper maintenance to the equipment on site
• Technical -Knowledge and application of technical skills to operate, maintain, improve and repair equipment. This allows production targets to be met safely, at the right level of quality and on time.
• Perform root cause/breakdown analysis using the emergency work-order (EWO) process and responsible for tracking F-Tags to resolution.

• Utilize problem-solving skills to diagnose and fix issues efficiently while using Unilever Manufacturing Standards (UMS) tools.

• Understand the principles of mechanism and motion and be able to conduct changeovers, basic repairs and adjustments (e.g., Cams, slides, bearings, belts and pulleys).
• Accountable for the maintenance productivity of all shifts.  This requires contacting appropriate resources for issue resolution, providing coaching and direction on breakdown RCA’s, maintenance EWO’s, and interfacing with facilities and engineering support.
• Continuously improve the processes and machinery through various principles of Lean and Just-in-time production to reduce cost, improve quality, and improve the ergonomic safety of our team members.
• Responsible for monitoring inventory of spare parts and supporting the maintenance planner(s) with updating spare parts inventory policies.
• Responsible for continuous improvement and driving loss reduction including deployment, execution, and reporting KPI’s for Run-to-Standard and any other related meetings.
• Be a champion of the Unilever Manufacturing Standards (UMS) Run to Standard (R2S) 18-week sprints for production lines to define and restore standards and basic conditions, establish governance to sustain them, attack chronic losses with kaizen events, and capture learnings and know how to develop our people.
• Development of Maintenance standards (SMP: Standard Maintenance Pro