CEYLON COLD STORES PLC
Assistant Manager – Operational Excellence
Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (CCS), manufacturer of Elephant House Beverages and Ice Creams is a leading consumer food company in Sri Lanka. CCS is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC.
The company is seeking a suitable candidate to fill the position of Assistant Manager – Operational Excellence. This role is overall responsible for coordinate SAP based Preventive Maintenance in both condition base and Time base maintenance, implement practices of continuous improvements and world class manufacturing, implement Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and KAIZENS in both the factories and roll out of Operational Excellence within statutory and organizational guidelines with the objective of ensuring OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) and technical delay targets of each production line.
The selected candidates will be responsible for:
- Ensure optimum level of implementation of SAP based preventive maintenance.
- Minimize breakdowns for utility & production equipment of SDF/ICF, logistics, Essence factory, Management of Engineering spare parts and eliminate stoppages due to non-availability of critical spares.
- Support the Department Leadership team in creating an environment where work teams and individuals are positively motivated to engage in Operational Excellence tools such as 5S/TPM/KAIZENS.
- Setting up of circle teams, training the teams on specific tolls and coordinating meetings and various core group meetings in related to problem solving. Facilitate/ coordinate structured problem-solving activities with teams based on trigger points defined as part of the Continuous Improvement process.
Required qualifications and skills:
- BSc Engineering degree from a recognized University – 1-3 years’ experience in implementing, 5S/TPM/TQM/KAIZEN or any other operational excellence tools with Manufacturing environment would be an added advantage.
- Business Understanding the Critical Processes/mechanisms involved in utility & production equipment in a manufacturing environment.
- Principles of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) based maintenance systems, analyzing equipment breakdowns, identifying KAIZENS to improve the efficiencies and losses in the machinery. Modern productivity improvement tools such as TPM/5S.
- Planning and control skills, organizing skills, communication skills, interpersonal relations, leadership and motivational skills.
- ‘Quality’ mind-set.
- Ability to quickly adjust to changing business requirements.
- Self-Initiation, independent decision making,time management and prioritizing.
If you are confident that you possess the above requirement, please send your cv, which includes the names of two non-related referees. Click on the advert now to join our team via Elephant House Careers site.
Closing Date: 2023/10/22