Engineering Manager

Company Description

Who we are? 

JDE Peet’s is the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, with local roots dating back to 1753, and is headquartered in the Netherlands. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands, including L’OR, Peet’s, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, OldTown, Super, Pickwick and Moccona. 

What’s it like to work at JDE Peet’s? 

We are people united by the power and possibility of tea and coffee. At JDE Peet’s, we thrive on the freedom to pursue opportunities, provoking new ideas to make an impact at scale. Our ambition is simple – JDE Peet's: unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea. 

We bring action to our intentions, following through on what was agreed, always pushing things forward. We offer our people a range of learning and development programmes to support their personal growth. We’ve worked hard to build an open, collaborative environment where you can approach anyone and be heard. 

At JDE Peet's, we believe it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We also believe that a diverse and inclusive culture enables us to serve every coffee and tea lover in the best possible way. No matter who you are, where you come from, how you live your life, or how you enjoy your coffee or tea, you can fulfil your ambitions and contribute to our success. 

When you grow, we grow, and coffee & tea grows. 

Apply to unleash a cup of amazing for your career. UNLEASH YOUR POSSIBILITY!

Job Description

Safety Health and Environment:

• Drives Safety Health and Environment culture and role model behaviors. Responsible for Safety Health and Environment requirements and legislation implementation and ensure compliance to legal and corporate standards & policies for contractors and the engineering team
• Implement solutions to impact risks in ergonomics and working conditions.

Quality:

• Drives Quality culture and role model behaviors. Responsible for Quality requirements and legislation implementation and ensure compliance to legal and corporate standards & policies for contractors and the engineering team
• Ensures project designs and execution includes Good Manufacturing Processes including Sanitary Design rules and new Manufacturing Operating System - MOS Standards

Leadership:

• Delivers excellent results within the area through engaged leadership and coaching. Drives a culture of engagement and develops capabilities
• Builds an excellent and effective team
• Leads and role models output of Manufacturing Operating System (MOS) supporting roll out and further development with hands approach by leading an MOS Pillar such as Initiative Management Pillar

Delivery & Cost:

• Has clear understanding and accountability of costs, Key Performance Indicators - KPI and engineering performance which delivers the annual AOP (Annual operation plan) to ultimately deliver the and VCP (Value Creation plan).
• Updates relevant information, tracking and reporting systems

CAPEX Projects:

• Ensures engineering standards and projects are implemented according to company policy & procedures and deployed within the team 
• Writes qualitative Capital Expenditure Requests
• Ensures perfect project execution (Scope, budget, time) for projects
• Contribute to perfect project execution led by Central Engineering
• Delivers Vertical Start Up (VSU) projects which achieve the specific success criteria and deliverables such as maintenance and spare parts plan
• Builds strong cooperation with local authorities and ensures all required documents are in place
• Ensures plant layouts development with consideration of possible future changes & innovations

Maintenance:

• Continuously improves maintenance cost
• Works on driving specific plans for breakdown elimination
• Designs and deploys reliability programs to support improvement of production efficiency (management of spare parts and maintenance activities) and improves preventive maintenance
• Ensures ideal equipment conditions of the plant to deliver expected output
• Ensures ongoing competency building for operators and technicians to reduce the competency gap

Process Automation:

• Develops MES and automation roadmap and feedbacks to new projects

Qualifications

• University Degree (Bachelor) or higher in Engineering or other related field.
• Languages: Local - Fluent ; English - Intermediate
• 6- 8 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment (strong preference in FMCG) including Engineering roles
• Min of 4 years in a people leadership with strong focus on development of teams
• Experience of change management within the plant to improve organization performance, in safety and quality as well.
• Project management experience including leading a project
• Strong understanding of budgeting with good understanding of financial processes.
• Profound knowledge and experience of Operational Excellence methodologies like TPM (prerequisite), Lean and 6 Sigma.

Additional Information

Your application at JDE Peet's 
If you are interested in this career opportunity at JDE Peet's, apply and join us. After receiving your application we will do our utmost to give you quick feedback. Part of the recruitment procedure at JDE Peet's would be an online assessment, followed by interviews. A pre-employment check can be part of the recruitment process.