Unilever is currently hiring for Operations Lead - Home Care
Function: Supply Chain
Work Level: WL1
Reports to: Works Manager - Home Care
Location: Karachi
About Unilever
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance.
At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.
At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.
Job Purpose
The job purpose of this role is to assist in the running the manufacturing operation for the plant. This includes accountability for all manufacturing areas including engineering, both planned and preventative, utilities and facilities and palletization areas of the factory. The AM Ops must ensure that all manufactured products are of high quality and that the site conforms to the required levels of hygiene and safety standards.
What Will Be Your Main Responsibilities
- Successfully manage a high volume, flexible manufacturing operation on a day-to-day basis
- Proactively assist the manufacturing team
- Drive continuous improvement and best practice approaches by identifying new safety techniques, quality initiatives and cost saving and development opportunities to improve factory performance
- To continually improve manufacturing processes yields and performance through the development of people, systems and the effective utilization of equipment.
- Understand and react to the wider needs of the business versus those of the Plant.
- Monitor and measure results of initiatives, fine tuning or taking corrective action as necessary.
- To ensure that safety and quality are a key element of the manufacturing culture.
- Build and develop relationships at all levels across the manufacturing function in order to spark ideas for continuous improvement.
- Ensure compliance with Unilever standards, procedures and legal requirements. Responsibility for ensuring the delivery and maintenance of engineering standards
- To ensure the plant and equipment is implemented and maintained in accordance with Engineering standards, local and statutory legislation, ISO systems and Health & Safety legislation.
- Responsible for creating and driving performance culture on the shop floor
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED"
Preferred Skills & Education
- Minimum of bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline
- 3-5 years’ experience is required within relevant Make Roles
- Excellent communication skills and team working ability at all levels.
- Relevant experience in a managerial role in a high-volume manufacturing or similar environment (FMCG)
- Effective interpersonal skills and organizational awareness
- Experience in delivering a highly efficient production operation to the required levels of quality, hygiene and safety. Experience of a strong unionized environment.
- Experience of leading through a significant period of change.
- Comfortable working cross functionally and across the supply chain department
Leadership
- You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
- As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.
Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
- PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
- PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
- CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
- PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
- AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.
Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.
