Ongoing recruitment at The Nigerian Bottling Company Limited, February 2017

The Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is one of the biggest companies in the non-alcoholic beverage industry in the country and is the sole franchise bottler of The Coca-Cola Company in Nigeria.
Our company serves approximately 160 million people by producing and distributing a unique portfolio of quality brands, bringing passion to marketplace implementation, and demonstrating leadership in corporate social responsibility.

Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is recruiting to fill the position below:


Job Title: Utility Engineer
Job Reference: UE/02/2017
Location: Nigeria
Functional areas: Engineering
Department: Supply Chain
Job Description
The Utility Engineer reports to the Plant Engineer and the key responsibilities of the role are: 

• Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on maintenance strategy execution in area of responsibility that includes water treatment plants, effluent treatment plants, iron removal plants, steam boilers, air compressors-high & low pressure, cooling compressors, chillers, air handling systems pumps etc.
• Participates in organization - and executes annual overhaul of production lines.
• Improves reliability and efficiencies by ensuring optimal execution of maintenance tasks.
• Participates in developing business plans targeting productivity improvement and increased cost efficiency
• Contributes to preparation- and controls annual utilities related maintenance budget ensuring sufficient funds to cover all routines and initiatives reflected in strategy & operational plans.
• Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects
• Effectively applies business performance review (E2020) management routine
• Optimizes the ability of assets to operation
• Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data
• Maintains effective systems to ensure CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Prepares, presents and interprets Maintenance KBI's, makes recommendations which result in increased productivity and efficiency; reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction
• Achievement of business targets by optimal use of labour and materials
• Analyses cost centre variances and investigates ways to improve cost performance
• Understands and controls main cost drivers in Maintenance
• Ensures full use of SAP Plant Maintenance module to be able to monitor cost and execution of utilities related maintenance activities
• Builds maintenance teams' capabilities through implementation of training and development programs
• Ensures IDP's are in place and executed for all direct reports
• Ensures training programmes are attended by all nominated team members. Follows up implementation of leanings
• Develops unit capabilities to achieve maximum utilization of technology and equipment
• Effectively applies approved selection and development tools for recruitment and development of employees
• Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance and develops successors
• Communicates unit strategy and ensures that all unit members understand and accept it
• Leads processes, systems and people side of all change initiatives in the unit
• Sets stretching but achievable objectives for all people in the unit
• Addresses poor performers quickly at all levels
• Lives and promotes company values and culture, and helps employees to understand and embrace them
• Personally lives the Company values and Code of Business Conduct and demonstrates them consistently
• Implements performance management systems with discipline in order to ensure that all first-line managers deliver full performance
• Regularly updates team members on company processes, changes and initiatives
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers, peers, institutions, suppliers
• Builds productive relationships with the employee/ union representatives
• Builds and re-reinforces relationships with Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Production Planning
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with the relevant government bodies
• Ensures continuous process improvement by exploring Group and industry benchmark and employees input
• Listens to and encourages employee recommendations and implements the ones delivering values quickly
• Learns and implements best practices from outside and shares own best practices within CC Hellenic
• Promotes process automation and use of technology
• Ensure all Health, Safety & Environment policies and procedures are in place and followed
• Ensures all work is carried out in a safe and appropriate manner by maintenance personnel and service/contractor personnel
• Ensures Maintenance impact on environment is minimized and within the CC Hellenic and regulatory limits
• Implements and provides disciplined monitoring and reporting regarding the implementation of labour legislation, certification standards, CC Hellenic/TCCC CSR Practices and international agreements
• Plays a leading role in implementing communication and actions which put the Quality First (product, behaviour, communication, etc.)
• Ensures property and loss prevention.

Requirements
Desired Candidate Profile:

• B.Sc in Electrical/Mechanical/Chemical Engineering or Suitable Equivalent with 6 years working experience in the field of Production Management or Maintenance in Food or Beverage Industry.
• Experience in budgeting. Experience in people management.
• Experience in execution of projects such as: line commissioning, annual maintenance planning.
• Knowledge of a bottling organization: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety. Operational planning expertise/experience.
• Delegation skills. Full knowledge of SC strategy.
• Understanding of financial impact of decisions.
• Ability to think in terms of functional sustainability rather than short term wins.
• Ability to select and assess first-line managers.
• Coaching direct reports and mentoring others.
• Ability to empower managers.
• Ability to translate function strategy into unit/section’s plan.
• Ability to lead and manage change.
• Ability to set standards for management performance. High integrity.
• Ability to build relationships to improve results.
• Ability to understand what drives peers in other units.
• Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things. Intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy.
• Ability to implement quality and health, safety & environment improvements

Job Title: Automation/Electrical Technician
Job Reference: AET/02/2017
Location: Nigeria 
Functional Areas: Engineering
Department: Engineering
Job Details

• The Automation/Electrical Technician reports to the Electrical Engineer.
• The key responsibilities is to carry out maintenance of all electrical/automation equipment (bottling and utilities) and their controls while ensuring high equipment reliability, high product quality, zero safety incidents and consistent delivery of budgeted volume targets.

Responsibilities

• Do proper troubleshooting and repair of all electrical and automated machinery and all related controls.
• Ensure machine up-time at all time by ensuring continuous engineering response improvement.
• Drive loss elimination on all lines.
• Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly condition monitoring is carried out.
• Other duties or responsibilities specified by the superior, resulting from the actual and specific requirements of the job in a given location.
• Ensure that contractors that work on any electrical equipment work safely and comply with all safety rules within the plant.
• Ensure that all machine guards, safety switches and status indicators on all equipment are in place and functional.
• Ensure a clean uniform and the required PPE are used always.
• Ensure all equipment panels are numbered, clean, dry and closed all the time.
• Ensure proper technical tools management.
• Ensure all cables (power and control) are clean, terminals firmly secured, adequately glanded, properly labeled and well arranged in the cable trays and covered.
• Ensure all breakers and fuses are adequately rated and set, and no vibrating or humming contactors or relays in the panel
• Ensure all filters are clean and panel cooling ACs are working.
• Ensure all electric motors are numbered and labeled and the label MUST correspond with the identity in the manual and the contactors in the panel.
• Keep physical record of all electric motor on your line or assigned areas the record must indicate which motor has problems and how it was solved.
• All electric motors MUST have their fan blades in place and in good form with fan covers.
• All motors must be clean and must not overheat, MUST be IP55 compliance.
• Ensure routine electrical/ automation maintenance are carried out as at when due on all equipment.
• Document and sign off all maintenance activities.

RequirementsDesired Candidate Profile:

• Experience needed 2 years.
• Relevant Technician Qualification preferably OND in Electrical Engineering or City & Guild part II or its equivalent.
• Basic Programmable Logic Control troubleshooting preferably Siemens S7.
• Instrumentation and Electro-pneumatics skills.
• Sound knowledge of electrical wiring diagram.
• Fair level of computer literacy.
• Good command of the English language.
• Proven problem solving skills must be minimum average.
• Basic understanding of bottling technology.
• Knowledge of maintenance procedures.
• Basic organizational & time management skills.
• Knowledge of interpretation of policies, procedures and systems in manufacturing.
• Drive for results.
• Timely feedback giving skills.
• Teamwork skills/mindset and high integrity.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Willingness to experiment and try new ideas.

Job Title: Automation / Electrical Engineer
Job Reference: AE/02/2017
Location: Nigeria
Functional Areas: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing
Job Details The Automation Engineer reports to the Plant Engineer and the key responsibilities of the role are: 

• Ensures optimized equipment performance by maintaining / improving equipment and line controls.
• Drives innovation and improvement.
• Manages people and resources to ensure uncompromised safety, availability and quality while minimizing the impact on the environment.
• Participates in organization - and executes annual overhaul of production lines.
• Improves reliability and efficiencies by ensuring optimal execution of maintenance tasks.
• Participates in developing business plans targeting productivity improvement and increased cost efficiency
• Contributes to preparation- and controls area of responsibility related maintenance budget ensuring sufficient funds to cover all routines and initiatives reflected in strategy & operational plans.
• Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects
• Effectively applies business performance review (E2020) management routine
• Optimizes the availability of assets to operation
• Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data&
• Maintains effective systems to ensure CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Prepares, presents and interprets Maintenance KBI's, makes recommendations which result in increased productivity and efficiency; reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction Achievement of business targets by optimal use of labour and materials
• Analyses cost centre variances and investigates ways to improve cost performance
• Understands and controls main cost drivers in Maintenance
• Ensures full use of SAP Plant Maintenance module to be able to monitor cost and execution of maintenance activities
• Builds maintenance teams' capabilities through implementation of training and development programs
• Ensures IDP's are in place and executed for all direct reports
• Ensures training programmes are attended by all nominated team members.
• Follows up implementation of leanings
• Develops unit capabilities to achieve maximum utilization of technology and equipment
• Effectively applies approved selection and development tools for recruitment and development of employees
• Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance and develops successors
• Communicates unit strategy and ensures that all unit members understand and accept it
• Leads processes, systems and people side of all change initiatives in the unit
• Sets stretching but achievable objectives for all people in the unit
• Addresses poor performers quickly at all levels
• Engagement plan implementation leads to constant Engagement index improvement
• Lives and promotes company values and culture, and helps employees to understand and embrace them
• Personally lives the Company values and Code of Business Conduct and demonstrates them consistently
• Implements performance management systems with discipline in order to ensure that all first-line managers deliver full performance
• Regularly updates team members on company processes, changes and initiatives 
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers, peers, institutions, suppliers
• Builds productive relationships with the employee/ union representatives
• Builds and re-reinforces relationships with Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Production Planning
• Ensures continuous process improvement by exploring Group and industry benchmark and employees input
• Listens to and encourages employee recommendations and implements the ones delivering values quickly
• Learns and implements best practices from outside and shares own best practices within CC Hellenic
• Promotes process automation and use of technology
• Ensure all Health, Safety & Environment policies and procedures are in place and followed
• Ensures all work is carried out in a safe and appropriate manner by maintenance personnel and service/contractor personnel
• Ensures Maintenance impact on environment is minimized and within the CC Hellenic and regulatory limits
• Implements and provides disciplined monitoring and reporting regarding the implementation of labour legislation, certification standards, CC Hellenic/TCCC CSR Practices and international agreements
• Plays a leading role in implementing communication and actions which put the Quality First (product, behaviour, communication, etc.)
• Ensures property and loss prevention

Desired Candidate Profile 

• University degree in Electrical/Controls/Electronics/Automation Engineering required .
• 5 years working experience in the field of Automation in Industry dealing with Siemens & Omron PLCs, Danfoss, Omron, Siemens variable fre drives VFDs, sensors, PLC programming skills and ability to effectively read and understand wiring plans plus PLC user programs and comments thereof.
• Experience in budgeting Experience in people management
• Experience in execution of projects such as: line commissioning, annual maintenance planning Basic Knowledge of a bottling organization: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety Operational planning expertise/experience
• Delegation skills Understanding of financial impact of decisions
• Ability to think in terms of functional sustainability rather than short term wins
• Ability to select and assess first-line managers
• Coaching direct reports and mentoring others
• Ability to empower managers
• Ability to translate function strategy into unit/section's plan
• Ability to lead and manage change
• Ability to set standards for management performance
• High integrity Ability to build relationships to improve results
• Ability to understand what drives peers in other units
• Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things
• Intellectual curiosity
• Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy
• Ability to implement quality and health, safety & environment improvements

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline  9th March, 2017.