Bridgestone Engineering / Technical Jobs in North West
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Job Purpose
Responsible for making sure equipment and machinery runs smoothly in the Plant. Achieve this by planning, organising and controlling the workload of the Mechanical Technicians who maintain the machinery, ensuring that this is done within the framework of the budget.
Responsibilities
- Optimize plant availability and reduce breakdowns.
- Machinery planned maintenance.
- Ensure quick responses to breakdown calls.
- Ensure breakdowns are repaired in shortest possible time.
- Implement any improvements on equipment
- Ensure legal compliance of the OHSACT.
- Work towards ensuring a safe workplace.
- Machine checks
Weekly walkthroughs - Execute capital projects and plant improvements
- Establish and control maintenance and project budgets.
- Daily checks on previous day expenditure.
- Development and training of maintenance workforce.
- Correspond with Training department on requirements and courses available for the up-liftment of workforce
- Be a team player and focus on achieving production targets.
- Be part of a work integrated team
- Plan work for annual shutdowns.
BRIDGESTONE LEADERSHIP ESSENCE
Qualified candidates for this important position will therefore need to demonstrate the following:
- Establishes strategic direction and effectively communicates the vision: Communicates a clear and inspiring vision for the business; drives competitive and innovative strategies and is able to generate alignment against the strategic direction
- Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others: Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence
- Promotes and enhances company culture: Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs
- Effectively manages across cultures: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity.
- BOSS focused - serves the customers having the end users in mind: Makes BOSS (end users) and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; develops and sustains productive relationships with BOSS; leverages BOSS intimacy in the development of new products, services and competitive advantage
- Demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence: Recognizes one’s personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits. Understands emotions and their effects
- Intellectually curious in support of learning agility: Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application
- Embraces and leads change and innovation: Encourages different and innovative approaches to address problems and opportunities; facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change within the organization
- Identifies and develops organizational talent: Attracts high calibre diverse talent , leads and guides others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives through on-going development and collaboration
Required Capabilities
- Customer satisfaction: (Production, QA, Technical)
- Technical skills (Mechanical)
- Proper understanding of process.
- Proper understanding of equipment & machines (including machine cycles).
- Systematic planning.
- Quick solution & problem-solving skills.
- Programming skills.
- Fault-finding skills.
- Communication Skills.
- Machine setup and operation
- 100% machine availability.
- Completion of activities within the planned budget.
Education:
- BSc (Eng), B Tech in Mechanical Engineering.
- GCC Factories would be an advantage
Experience:
- At least 5 years’ experience in heavy industry and 5 years tyre industry would be an advantage
- Supervisory management skills
- Complex problem solving skills
- Judgement and decision making skills
- Computer literate, able to organize, plan and prioritise work
- Knowledge of engineering standards and quality control
Leadership Competencies:
- Business Acumen
- Shapes business strategy
- Drives accountability and high performance
- Fosters teamwork and collaboration
- Customer focus and Customer Service orientation/mind-set
- Nurtures and coaches
- Builds partnerships
- Develops others
- Health and Safety
- Hazard Awareness
- SHE Law and Regulatory Systems
- Emergency Response
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