Engineering Manager

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Engineering Manager

REPORTS TO: Operations Director

Location: Kerrygold Park

Company Background

Ornua is a dairy co-operative which sells dairy products on behalf of its members, Ireland’s dairy processors and, in turn, Irish dairy farmers. It is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, exporting to 110 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin, Ornua has annualised sales of over €3.5 billion and a global team of 3,000 employees.

Ornua is structured across two divisions: Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients. We operate from 10 business units worldwide, including 16 production facilities, and have sales and marketing teams working in-market across the globe in Africa, Asia, Germany, Ireland, the Middle East, Spain, the UK, and the US.

You may know us by our brands Kerrygold, Dubliner, Pilgrim’s Choice, Avantage, Forto, and BEO.

Ornua’s Values

At Ornua, our Values lie at the core of everything that we do and how we behave both individually and as a business. Our five values, and their underlying behaviours, encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care and Achieve Great Things Together.

Ornua’s Growth

At Ornua, our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business. We care passionately about driving sustainable, profitable growth, underpinned by our ambitious ‘Path to Prosper’ strategy. We have delivered significant growth in our core business, and we have ambitious plans for continued growth over the next five years.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• Responsible for the development and execution of the Site Engineering Strategy in collaboration with the Site Leadership Team
• Lead and positively represent the engineering function and team
• Develop the engineering capability to drive a culture of reliability and defect elimination
• Ownership & control of department budget expenditure in line with targets
• Maintain strong relationships with all key interfaces
• Ensure reporting on all key KPI’s with corrective actions to address issues
• Support the H&S strategy within Ornua through proactive participation and involvement
• Be an active member of the Site Leadership Team
• Lead and initiate continuous improvement programs and projects including the development and optimization of operation and maintenance procedures for multiple systems on site.
• Full control of contractors working to, and adhering with policies and procedures.
• Implement and drive full utilization of a CMMS system to enable engineering improvements and sustainability
• Develop & manage an engineering planning process for effective PPM execution on a rolling 52 week
• Ensure site services/utilities are maintained and deliver to required performance levels Maintain and improve standards of hygiene and housekeeping in all areas of the factory including the engineering office and workshop
• Ensure compliance with relevant Global Engineering Standards, Statutory inspection requirements, machinery safety and Guidance on suitability
• Provide technical and behavioural coaching to peers, apprentices, and front-line production colleagues
• Be the technical resource for projects and technical specifications
• Develop, implement, maintain and regularly review a strategic development program of the site infrastructure, process and production capability, developing capital investment plans as required.
• Providing oversight on the project management of process equipment and manufacturing
• Key active stakeholder for increased digitalisation projects on the manufacturing floor ensure that all new technologies are embedded and embraced by the entire site teams
• All aspects of Engineering on site will fall under the remit of the Engineering Manager.
  
  

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• The likely candidate will have a keen desire to work and train in a high speed, automated butter making facility and to add value to both the organization and engineering team
• Ability to drive performance, seeking root cause to business problems and design and deliver practical solutions to resolve Experience of leading and managing multi skilled technicians and support engineers in the manufacturing environment, to include performance management, objective setting, coaching/mentoring, development and prioritization
• Bring a sense of urgency to situations, demonstrate an active approach, be willing to get involved in order to increase the pace and achieve goals and objectives
• Relevant qualification in Engineering, Food Science with proven record of leading a team in achieving set targets
• Ideally > 5 years’ experience in a Leadership role
• Technical knowledge and ability
• Practical, hands on experience and in-depth understanding of common mechanical and electrical systems
• Demonstrable experience of leading and developing teams across a shift work environment
• Exposure to and knowledge of Lean manufacturing
• Demonstrable experience of managing budgets & cost centres
• Organised individual who can mentor and grow skills within the Engineering Team
• Ability to respond quickly to a changing production environment
  
  

ORNUA COMPETENCIES:

• Ownership
• Working Together
• Communicative
• Expertise