Digital & Automation Lead

3 months ago

Port Sunlight, United Kingdom Unilever Full time

**Job Title**:Digital & Automation Lead

**Location**:Port Sunlight Factories

**JOB PURPOSE**

Are you inspired by digital technology? Our Future Fit Manufacturing program needs a delivery orientated change agent with solid operational experience to drive our digital factory agenda, to make Vision Future Engineering a day-to-day reality. You will be to lead and co-ordinate digital, automation and process optimization activities that are needed to drive the programme across Unilever’s global supply chain. The focus will be on enabling our manufacturing sites to deploy appropriate, standardised technologies and ensure consistency in deployment and associated benefit delivery.

This role requires acquiring and connecting multiple data sources in a standardised format, using analytics to identify areas of opportunity, democratising data and putting it in the hands of the experts enabling empowerment and capability building at all data-touching levels.

Working closely and collaboratively with internal and external teams to coordinate and implement Digital Manufacturing Roadmap activities. Responsible for effectively coordinating and managing all Masterplans through to digital programs as a partner to the Port Sunlight SU teams. You will need to build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders. You will lead the manufacturing piece in optimising E2E value chains though technical solution deployment enabling market leading agility and flexibility to enable Unilever to be #1 for Customer Service.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Lead the process of site engagement with and deployment of Digital Factory Standard tools with a clear, deliverable plan aligned per SU, building capabilities where gaps are identified.
- You will lead the culture change to use digital tools and be the driving force for the project implementation of the tools in place, used, validated and trusted by team members.
- Identify, document and manage the communication of Unilever’s Digital Factory standards.
- Lead the ongoing organisation and implementation of digital factory training programs.
- Able to clearly understand operating principles and establish operating standards.
- Manage engineering and other resource as needed including but not limited to: Automation and Control engineers, maintenance technicians, contractors and training team resources.
- Leading edge in Unilever’s Digital Factory data discovery process ensuring data needed by the operational teams is made available and user-friendly to support capability building and problem solving.
- Ensure digitality enabled deployment of the SU Masterplan, delivering visible KPI improvements; amongst other things in driving safety, quality and OEE improvements.
- Ensure ongoing communication for best practice between digital factory users.
- Identify opportunities for experimentation and further development of the digital factory platform within manufacturing, the wider supply chain and with our partners.

**ALL ABOUT YOU**

**Essential**
- 3+ years’ experience in Project Engineering with FMCG experience strongly preferred.
- 2+ years of managing digital & automation project implementation from initial design to working solution.
- Experience managing project budgets and reporting.
- Experience in Engineering Design Process Management.
- Professional engineering skills desirable
- Ability to communicate and influence across both operational and technical stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple requests and priorities simultaneously
- Working knowledge of Microsoft tools, specifically Microsoft BI, Excel, Sharepoint

**Desired**
- Firsthand experience/ track record of delivering and managing projects within Unilever or similar FMCG environment
- Knowledge of data analytics tools linked and the use of data sets in Microsoft Azure
- Financial skills in creation of business case and value measurement
- Working knowledge operational KPIS and the principles of World Class Manufacturing
- Operational Technology experience in connecting the plant floor to Industrial IOT platforms
- ** PLC**: Siemens S7 PLC/HMI S7 300, S7 200, S7 1200, S7 1500 and S5
- ** Software**: Simatic Manager, WinCC Flexible, Protool, Tia Portal, Step 5 and Simotion Scout.

**NOTES**

**About Unilever**

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

**What We Offer**

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension

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