British American Tobacco is  recruiting to fill the position below:

POSITION : Production Engineering Manager

DESCRIPTION

• Implement a strategy for the continual improvement of factory performance in terms of efficiency and quality, in line with customer requirements.
• Lead, manage and develop the key production support functions of Process Engineering, Maintenance and Sub Assembly Control and Repair.
• Champion the philosophy of continuous improvement across all areas of the business and to encourage others to adopt techniques available to drive this

 Requirements

• Effectively manages the department’s expenditure and assets within the agreed budget
• Responsible for ancillary production equipment (e.g. change over kits) and related operating procedures
• To effectively represent customer (production) needs in Engineering projects, ensuring requirements/ acceptance criteria are fully understood
• Continuous improvement of production performance.
• Drives together with Production managers the identification of improvement opportunities, prioritizes them based on impact on production plan and ensures development of action plans and their implementation.
• Leads the development of maintenance processes in order to find the optimum levels of corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance and the optimum method of delivery of these maintenance types.
• Ensure key site wide performance and quality issues are identified, targeted and systematically reduced or eliminated so as to improve factory performance and reduce waste. 
• This will involve all they key generic elements of the manufacturing process; machine, materials, people, method and environment
• Ensuring EH&S policies and procedures are adhered to within Process Engineering