Automation and Process Optimization Manager

7 days ago

Birkenhead, Wirral, United Kingdom Unilever Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead our Digital Factory program, driving the implementation of digital technologies and automation across our global supply chain. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for coordinating and managing digital manufacturing roadmap activities, ensuring seamless integration with our operational teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive digital factory strategy, aligned with our business objectives and goals.
  • Lead the deployment of digital factory standard tools, ensuring effective site engagement and capability building.
  • Manage the organization and implementation of digital factory training programs, ensuring all stakeholders are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge.
  • Identify and document Unilever's digital factory standards, ensuring consistency and best practices across the organization.
  • Collaborate with internal and external teams to coordinate and implement digital manufacturing roadmap activities, ensuring effective communication and stakeholder management.
  • Develop and manage project budgets, reporting, and resource allocation, ensuring timely and within-budget delivery.
  • Lead the culture change to adopt digital tools, driving project implementation, validation, and adoption by team members.
  • Manage engineering and other resources, including automation and control engineers, maintenance technicians, contractors, and training team resources.
  • Generate, distribute, and train on Microsoft tools and applications, driving manufacturing improvement and production cost savings within the digital factory data.
  • Lead-edge in Unilever's digital factory data discovery process, ensuring data availability and user-friendliness to support capability building and problem-solving.
  • Ensure digitality-enabled deployment of the SU Masterplan, delivering visible KPI improvements, including safety, quality, and OEE enhancements.
  • Ensure ongoing communication for best practices between digital factory users.
  • Identify opportunities for experimentation and further development of the digital factory platform within manufacturing, the wider supply chain, and with partners.

About You

We are looking for a highly experienced professional with a strong background in project engineering, digital transformation, and automation. You should have a proven track record of managing digital and automation project implementation, with experience in engineering design process management, database tools, and application development.

Requirements

  • 3+ years' experience in project engineering, with FMCG experience strongly preferred.
  • 2+ years of managing digital and 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.
  • Knowledge of database tools and application development.
  • 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, and 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 of 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.

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