Sr. Engineer Americas

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General Description of the Role

• Support the Regional Engineering Director to collect from assigned factories and distilleries bottom-up requests to build the capex budget and strategic plan (3 years). Proposals should cover needs to reach annual and strategic plan targets, to match production growth, to assure business continuity.

• Help assigned factories and distilleries to generate ideas and transfer best practices to deliver productivity on:

  • «equipment» (OEE, set-up time)

  • «energy»

• Track the capital expenditure and related projects along the year (for assigned sites) to avoid delays and late result delivery.

• Drive the preparation of technical specification for new equipment or important modifications.

• Support the supplier selection with a technical perspective preparing technical comparison of their quotations.

 

Mission/Objectives

The Snr Project Engineering will manage the Capex Projects activities and assist with CI projects managing staff/contractors to ensure all aspects of the projects are completed in a quality manner while driving continuous improvement in the operation.

 

Key Responsibilities and Activities

• Track the capital expenditure and related projects along the year (for assigned sites) to avoid delays and late result delivery.

• Drive the preparation of technical specification for new equipment or important modifications.

• Support the supplier selection with a technical perspective preparing technical comparison of their quotations.

• Directly manage important projects with high capex involved (> 200k USD):

  • plant capacity growth.

  • main equipment substitution or extraordinary refurbishment.

  • transfer or in-sourcing of production lines

  • Technology transfer amongst the plants

• Track maintenance costs of assigned plants.

• Support Plant Engineering & Maintenance teams to:

  • technically specify new equipment or modifications to existing ones.

  • install, commission, test and ramp-up new or modified equipment.

  • de-commission or transfer equipment.

  • maintain manufacturing lines, cellars, utilities, and buildings to assure production continuity.

  • implement appropriate approaches, tools, and methods to maintain assets:

    • autonomous

    • on break-down

    • time based

    • condition based

    • preventive

    • predictive

• Help, through training-on-the-job, the implementation of standard Engineering KPIs, processes, tools, methods, and procedures:

  • Problem Solving methodologies (e.g., PDCA, A3, 8D, …)

  • Process-FMECAs

  • CQV (Commissioning, Qualification, Validation)

  • O.E.E.

• Identify best practices and share them with Regional Engineering Director and counterparts

 

Key Relationships

Internal:

• Plant Directors, Q and HSE plant managers, Regional and Global Engineering Team

 

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