Asset Engineer
Philip Morris International Dakar, Sénégal
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Asset Engineer within Philip Morris Manufacturing Senegal
Purpose of the job
Plan and manage assets in a cost-effective way.
Ensure optimal equipment availability and reliability through assets’ life cycle by developing and implementing proper maintenance strategies, procedures and routines with focus to assets and maintenance performance in order to meet company objectives.
Achieve the required output to support factory operational requirements in compliance with applicable standards and policies / procedures contributing to continuous improvement culture.
Accountabilities
• Maintenance Strategy
• Develop and/or improve proactive and cost-effective maintenance strategy based on suitable techniques and procedures. Modify and keep them up to date to further improve equipment availability, reliability, maintainability and safety as well as contribution to product quality.
• Analyze most frequent machine downtimes and develop substantial solutions against root causes to eliminate, or drastically reduce machine downtime in order to bring about overall productivity improvements.
• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
• Ensure maintenance planning and scheduling in order to increase the ratio of proactive (planned) work versus reactive (unplanned) work, to fulfil production plan and to ensure that it is implemented timely and properly and carried out in full compliance with the customer needs, safety norms, quality requirements and cost objectives. Follow-up machine standardization plan link to process improvements and keep it updated.
• Maintenance Management
• Work out and budget annual maintenance plans in conjunction with maintenance supervisors and production manager and ensure proper and timely implementation of these plans.
• Review reliability of existing equipment that is difficult, costly or at safety risky to maintain and recommend appropriate action. Identify opportunities for design out maintenance activities where conventional reliability and maintenance activities are not cost effective.
• Material Management
• Define spare parts requirements estimation and min-max level of spare part stock for all equipment.
• Assist spare parts, consumables, small equipment budget preparation.
• Ensure that spare parts consumption is in correlation with the approved budget.
• Clarify technical aspects with suppliers related spare parts and materials
• Participate in the process of scouting new suppliers, in order to
• identify potential improvements in terms of cost and quality.
• Ensure that maintenance processes and data is reflected in relevant maintenance systems (SAP/CMMS) and/or logbooks…
• Asset Delivery
• Ensure coordination between production and engineering department for the preparation of technical specifications in case of new machinery purchase. Review and authorize the documentation link to new machinery purchase to ensure it meets best practices needed for equipment, work ergonomics and business.
• In cooperation with production team ensure and supervise adequate production resources for startup and commissioning of new machinery until it is handed over to regular production.
• Asset Register
• Ensure and update the asset register for equipment.
• Integrate new equipment, pursue necessary risk assessments, provide input for preparation of related documentation in order to fully comply with legislation and internal procedures.
• Ensure all machine documentation are updated and available.
• Continuous Improvement
• Initiate technical development and / or lead / participate in projects in order to improve safety conditions, quality and more effective use of equipment, spare parts and consumables, both at local/regional level, in adherence with OPEN+ pillars & system, including engineering design improvement initiatives
• Find technical solution, implement and monitor proposed improvements related to equipment
• Actively participate in continuous improvements decision process, in line with Change Management process
• Sustainability / Health, Safety & Environment
• Promote and apply all rules concerning PMI Quality, environment, health and safety. Report all situations requiring actions in order to minimize or eliminate risks exposure to personnel, company assets and societal impacts and be in line with or ahead of any applicable Law requirements and Company standards.
Education
College/University Mechanical/Electronics Engineering or equivalent
Work Experience
• Overall Experience + 3 years relevant experience in production
• Specific Experience experience in asset management
Language skill
• Local Language Fluent
• English Fluent
What we offer
• Challenging and very rewarding role with a significant amount of ownership in a dynamic international environment,
• Collaboration with a team of great professionals with limitless possibilities of sharing knowledge with the best experts in their field,
• Participation and leadership of a significant number of strategic projects that make an impact on the whole organization,
• Excellent career development opportunities,
• Competitive remuneration package with an extensive benefit scheme.
Join a global market leader
Philip Morris International is a leading international tobacco company, with a diverse workforce of around 73,000 people who hail from every corner of the globe.
We are committed to being a great employer and a good corporate citizen. We strive to be environmentally and socially responsible. We are dedicated to fighting the illegal cigarette trade.
And we proudly support the communities where we source tobacco and where our employees live and work.
We are dedicated to doing something very dramatic – replacing cigarettes with the smoke-free products that we’re developing and selling.
That’s why we have a total of over 400 dedicated scientists, engineers, and technicians developing less harmful alternatives to cigarettes at our two Research & Development sites in Switzerland and Singapore.
It’s the biggest shift in our history. And it’s the right one for our consumers, our company, our shareholders, and society.
PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For more information, see www.pmi.com