Unilever Hiring for Manufacturing Executive at Sinnar, Maharashtra, India Full Time

Job Title: Manufacturing Executive

Work Level: 1B

Work Location: Nashik Factory

Roles And Responsibilities

Production Management and Supervision

• Oversee daily production activities to ensure targets are met, monitoring machine operations and plant performance.
• Supervise shop-floor employees, union, and operators, coordinating with shift officers for smooth operations and addressing employee concerns.
• Ensure optimum utilization of resources and manpower.
• Maintain shift-wise reports on production, quality, and downtime, and review logs for machinery, maintenance, and RM, PM usage (tech-eff).

Process Improvement and Efficiency

• Identify and implement process improvements and efficiency opportunities under UMS pillars
• Evaluate productivity, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), OPE, tech-eff to identify gaps and initiate improvement projects or kaizens.
• Review shop floor production wastage (RM, PM, SFG) and rework inventory to enhance material handling and technical efficiency.

Quality

• Ensure adherence to quality standards (like GMP, HACCP, FSSAI, etc.).
• Coordinate with the Quality team to resolve issues quickly and conduct in-process checks and inspections.
• Implement Quality Improvement Plans (QIP) at the site along with the quality executive.

Stakeholder management-Projects & Supply Chain and Efficiency

• Coordinate with stakeholders such as R&D, CQA, SUIT & Planning, Engineering teams, FSSAI and suppliers to effectively manage and achieve overall business KPIs and comply to statutory requirements
• Execute the material savings initiatives & projects along with stakeholders.
• Execute short-term and long-term capacity projects at the site with stakeholders to meet volume commitments.
• Coordinate with the Engineering team to deliver plant reliability and capacity enhancement projects.
• Support the implementation of innovation and new product launches within the factory in collaboration with SUIT and R&D teams.
• Assist the Supply Chain team in resolving RM and PM supply issues by initiating strategic actions such as new vendor development and reviewing vendor performance.
• Identify opportunities for savings in production setup by improving efficiencies and securing finance team approvals for these projects.

Digital Initiatives

• Engage in the deployment of the digital agenda for production setup by working on initiatives such as DFOS, Build app, and Auto-manning.

Safety and Environmental Programs

• Collaborate with the SHE team in planning and implementing safety and environmental programs and ensure nil incidents on shopfloor.

Employee Engagement and Development

• Connect with blue-collar workers to address their wellbeing, enhance productivity, and facilitate upskilling opportunities.
• Optimize manpower and handle union-related matters effectively.
• Lead Kaizen and continuous improvement initiatives through employee engagement and encourage autonomous maintenance practices.
• Serve as a core team member in LTS discussions, leading initiatives alongside HR and Manufacturing Manager.

Qualification: Instrumentation/Mechanical Engineer/Food Technology (Ice Cream) with a prior experience of working in a process plant or a food/Ice cream plant

Experience: Minimum of 5 years

Skills Required: MS Office-Excel, PPT (Must have), Power BI (Good to have)