Process Lead at British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco is all about freedom of choice – whether it’s our people or our products. Combined with our entrepreneurial spirit, it’s what’s driven our phenomenal success. We started trading tobacco over a hundred years ago. Today, we’re a multibillion dollar company with more than 200 brands in our portfolio. With robust positions in each of our regional markets, our future looks equally bright too.

We are recruiting to fill the position below: 

 

Job Title: Process Lead

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Seniority Level: Non-management
Function: Operations
Reports To: PDM Manager

Role Positioning and Objectives

• The Process Lead is expected to develop the operating teams’ technical understanding and mastery of process control.
• The Process Lead owns the integrity of the Line Event Data System and is responsible for data analytics of line losses.
• Also, the job holder acts as the team’s expert in troubleshooting and problem solving.

What You Will Be Accountable For

• Familiarize oneself and complies with all applicable and relevant business processes, procedure and policies RTT / DMS
• Owns the Centreline Management system for the line(s), including:
• Establish CL targets & limits for the equipment owned by the team
• Ensuring all CL audits are completed at the proper frequency
• Reviewing Changeover critiques and coaching shift teams to identify and implement improvement opportunities to achieve CO success criteria
• Leading Rapid Changeover events to identify additional opportunities to reduce changeover time as required by business need
• Executing weekly Health Checks
• Owns the Change Management DMS & validation processes
• Including process benchmarking & reapplication across processes, modules and plants Loss Elimination
• Analyses line data to identify and prioritize loss elimination opportunities including the creation of current state and future state loss trees utilizing tools such as loss allocation, weibull and S-shape
• Develop control strategies to enable operators to respond to out of control situations
• Training team members on documentation needed when running out of CL
• Investigating, validating & updating new CL standards to eliminate losses
• Executing weekly Health Checks, identifying gaps in system, and implementing appropriate countermeasures
• Owns the Changeover DMS for the line(s)
• Establishing Changeover standards for all product SKU’s
• Participating in Line DDS process daily to set priorities and allocate resources, and report results for previous 24 hours:
  • CL & CO DMS’s
  • Top 3 stops and initial finding
  • Process Failures and initial findings
• Using Reliability Engineering tools to drive Centreline DMS and loss elimination
• Owns integrity of Line Event Data Systems (LEDS) Troubleshooting & Problem Solving
• Leads root cause problem solving efforts on key chronic losses for the line(s)
• Coaches teams to build capability in problem solving skills and formal tools, including but not limited to Initial Problem Solving, Unified Problem Solving, 6W2H, and 5 Why’s
• Leads and builds the capability of team around process failures technical troubleshooting

Essential Experience, Skills and Knowledge

• Higher National Diploma or Bachelors of Science / Engineering from a recognized institution.
• Demonstrated ability to assimilate technical data to support recommendations
• Problem solving skills
• Familiarity with structured problem tools useful but not mandatory
• Specific technical mastery useful but not mandatory.
• Knowledge of any manufacturing environment with at least 2 years’ experience in a production environment
• Must have sound coaching skills and must be able to develop others.
• Ability to work with data and information
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Salary Range
Competitive salary package + excellent benefits + market leading bonus.

 

How to Apply
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