Latest Recruitment Opportunities at Nigerian Bottling Company Limited

The Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is one of the biggest companies in the non-alcoholic beverage industry in the country and is the sole franchise bottler of The Coca-Cola Company in Nigeria.
Our company serves approximately 160 million people by producing and distributing a unique portfolio of quality brands, bringing passion to marketplace implementation, and demonstrating leadership in corporate social responsibility.

Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is recruiting to fill the positions below:



Job Title: Shift Maintenance Controller
Job Reference: SMC/03/2017
Location: Nigeria
Functional areas: Manufacturing- Engineering
Department: Manufacturing
Job Details 

• The Shift Maintenance controller reports to the Plant Engineer and is majorly responsible for implementation and execution of planned and scheduled maintenance orders and ensures full usage of SAP PM.
• He/She Also ensure reliability and availability of plant assets through effective supervision of executed maintenance tasks.

Other Key Responsibilities 

• Coordinate execution of planned and scheduled maintenance orders for all equipment at minimal cost.
• Planning and monitoring of maintenance requirements and costing in relation to maintenance plan and budget.
• Manage Technical personnel to improve knowledge and skill on bottling equipment maintenance.
• With the MSE & MPs, organizes and schedules annual overhaul of production lines and facilities
• Improves efficiencies of assets by increasing preventive maintenance and to minimize breakdowns and reduce MTBF.
• In conjunction with the MPs, prepares annual plant maintenance budget ensuring sufficient funds to cover all routines and initiatives reflected in strategy & operational plans.
• Follow up with the spare part store keeper to ensure optimal spare parts and maintenance materials inventory management without outage.
• Effectively applies business performance review (COBRA, EATB) management routines to continuously improve asset management
• Maintains effective systems to ensure CCHellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Understands and controls main cost drivers in Maintenance
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, peers, internal customers, institutions & suppliers
• Builds productive relationships with the employee/ union reps as well as with QA, production, Logistics staffers.
• Implements performance management systems with discipline in order to ensure that all team members deliver full performance
• Any other tasks as may be assigned to him/her by LM considered to enhance maintenance scheduling and execution.

Desired Candidate Profile 

• Relevant Engineering Degree or equivalent certificate (HND).
• Min. 5years experience in technical positions most of which should have been around the shop floor.
• Excellent degree of computer literacy especially MS Excel and Ppt.
• Good command of the English language-Spoken and written.
• Good command of SAP EAM Software
• Proven familiarity with budgeting procedures.
• Significant experience with a measure of cost reduction initiatives within a manufacturing environment.
• Good understanding and experience of current WC manufacturing methodologies.
• Good understanding of plant HQSE modalities and codes.
• Good oral communication, influencing, analytical and relationship skills
• Experience in execution of maintenance task.
• Understanding of business case/cost benefits analysis preparation and basic financial analysis tools.
• Experience in practical project management
• Any WC certifications in maintenance, reliability or project management

Job Title: Maintenance Systems Engineer
Job Reference: MSE/03/2017 
Department: Manufacturing
Job Details 
The Maintenance Systems Engineer reports to the Plant Engineer and the key responsibilities of the role are:

• • Responsible for implementation and roll out of maintenance systems. Champions roll out- and ensures full usage of SAP PM.
• • Ensures integrity and sustainability of equipment and processes through conducting audits and process checks and initiating corrective action where required. 
• • Drives innovation and improvement of lines and assets. 
• • Manages people and resources to ensure uncompromised safety, availability and quality while minimizing the impact on the environment. 
• • Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on maintenance strategy execution in plant in alignment with country strategy 
• •Is accountable for all MPs and spareparts store personnel daily 
• •Through the MPs, organizes and schedules PMs, CMs and annual overhaul of production lines and facilities 
• •Improves efficiencies by increasing preventative maintenance across the plant and to minimize breakdowns and reduce mean time between failures 
• •Develops business plans providing productivity improvement and stretchy targets for cost efficiency 
• •Contributes to preparation and controls annual plant maintenance budget ensuring sufficient funds to cover all routines and initiatives reflected in strategy & operational plans 
• •Ensures optimal spare parts and maintenance materials inventory management without outage •Responsible for policy & procedures development, publishing and compliance of same (engineering, HQSE and any other regulations that could affect engineering operations.) •Ensures continuous and effective assets management 
• •Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects in Production 
• •Effectively applies business performance review (COBRA, EATB, RCFA etc) management routine •Optimizes the ability of assets for operation 
• •Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data
• •Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Relevant Engineering Degree or equivalent certificate (HND).
• Min. 4 years experience in a technical position most of which should be a Managerial role combined appropriately with a shop floor role.
• Experience in capex projects, installation of new plant equipment and extension of the current plants.
• Understanding of business case/cost benefits analysis preparation and basic financial analysis tools.
• Experience in practical project management.
• Excellent degree of computer literacy especially MS Excel and Ppt.
• Good command of the English language-Spoken and written.
• Proven familiarity with budgeting procedures.
• Significant experience with a measure of cost reduction initiatives within a manufacturing environment.
• Good understanding and experience of current manufacturing methodologies.
• Good understanding of plant HQSE modalities and codes.
• Good oral communication, influencing and relationship skills.
• Good analytical skills

Job Title: Utility Technician (Ikeja, Owerri, Port-Harcourt, Maiduguri) 
Department Manufacturing
Job Reference UT/03/2017
Job Details 
The Utility Technician reports to the Utility Engineer. The key responsibilities is to operate and maintain equipment at the utility section by the approved policies & procedures of the company to ensure the availability of quality service to production & other areas of the plant.
Other responsibilities include;

• Operates steam boilers, air compressors, power distribution equipment etc to ensure quality service delivery.
• Maintain all equipment under utilities to minimise down time. Maintain CO2 acess points as per specification -Must be locked always.
• Carry out equipment monitoring as per checklist, document findings and recommend actions to be taken. Write equipment shift operation report.
• Lubricate equipment as specified in the lubrication chart and documentation. Clean and wash all stains on equipment after lubrication
• Ensure all safety sensors, reflector & safety controls are in good working condition.
• Use all company provided protective wears and gadgets and comply with all Health and Safety rules
• Use all company provided protective wears and gadgets and comply with all Health and Safety rules
• Ensure the compliance to good manufacturing practice, food safety practice, good environmental management system, occupational Health and Safety practices in all line activities.
• Monitor and ensure CCPs critical limits are not exceeded at the Dominik Hunter and Filler. MONITORING of control points, PRPs and oPRPs in beverage manufacture process to prevent food safety related hazards.
• Any other assigned duties
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Desired Candidate Profile 

• •Relevant Engineering Certificate or equivalent Certificate (OND/C&G Part II)
• •Min. 3 years experience in a technical position most appropriately with and a shop floor role
• •Basic Knowledge of computer skill
• •Appropriate command and use of the English language-Spoken and written•Significant experience with a measure of cost reduction initiatives within a manufacturing environment
• •Good understanding and experience of current manufacturing methodologies
• •Good understanding of plant HQSE modalities and codes
• •Good oral communication, influencing and relationship skills
• •Good analytical skills

Job Title: Automation / Electrical Engineer
Job Reference: AE/02/2017
Location: Nigeria
Functional Areas: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing
Job Details The Automation Engineer reports to the Plant Engineer and the key responsibilities of the role are: 

• Ensures optimized equipment performance by maintaining / improving equipment and line controls.
• Drives innovation and improvement.
• Manages people and resources to ensure uncompromised safety, availability and quality while minimizing the impact on the environment.
• Participates in organization – and executes annual overhaul of production lines.
• Improves reliability and efficiencies by ensuring optimal execution of maintenance tasks.
• Participates in developing business plans targeting productivity improvement and increased cost efficiency
• Contributes to preparation- and controls area of responsibility related maintenance budget ensuring sufficient funds to cover all routines and initiatives reflected in strategy & operational plans.
• Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects
• Effectively applies business performance review (E2020) management routine
• Optimizes the availability of assets to operation
• Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data&
• Maintains effective systems to ensure CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Prepares, presents and interprets Maintenance KBI’s, makes recommendations which result in increased productivity and efficiency; reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction Achievement of business targets by optimal use of labour and materials
• Analyses cost centre variances and investigates ways to improve cost performance
• Understands and controls main cost drivers in Maintenance
• Ensures full use of SAP Plant Maintenance module to be able to monitor cost and execution of maintenance activities
• Builds maintenance teams’ capabilities through implementation of training and development programs
• Ensures IDP’s are in place and executed for all direct reports
• Ensures training programmes are attended by all nominated team members.
• Follows up implementation of leanings
• Develops unit capabilities to achieve maximum utilization of technology and equipment
• Effectively applies approved selection and development tools for recruitment and development of employees
• Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance and develops successors
• Communicates unit strategy and ensures that all unit members understand and accept it
• Leads processes, systems and people side of all change initiatives in the unit
• Sets stretching but achievable objectives for all people in the unit
• Addresses poor performers quickly at all levels
• Engagement plan implementation leads to constant Engagement index improvement
• Lives and promotes company values and culture, and helps employees to understand and embrace them
• Personally lives the Company values and Code of Business Conduct and demonstrates them consistently
• Implements performance management systems with discipline in order to ensure that all first-line managers deliver full performance
• Regularly updates team members on company processes, changes and initiatives 
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers, peers, institutions, suppliers
• Builds productive relationships with the employee/ union representatives
• Builds and re-reinforces relationships with Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Production Planning
• Ensures continuous process improvement by exploring Group and industry benchmark and employees input
• Listens to and encourages employee recommendations and implements the ones delivering values quickly
• Learns and implements best practices from outside and shares own best practices within CC Hellenic
• Promotes process automation and use of technology
• Ensure all Health, Safety & Environment policies and procedures are in place and followed
• Ensures all work is carried out in a safe and appropriate manner by maintenance personnel and service/contractor personnel
• Ensures Maintenance impact on environment is minimized and within the CC Hellenic and regulatory limits
• Implements and provides disciplined monitoring and reporting regarding the implementation of labour legislation, certification standards, CC Hellenic/TCCC CSR Practices and international agreements
• Plays a leading role in implementing communication and actions which put the Quality First (product, behaviour, communication, etc.)
• Ensures property and loss prevention

Desired Candidate Profile 

• University degree in Electrical/Controls/Electronics/Automation Engineering required .
• 5 years working experience in the field of Automation in Industry dealing with Siemens & Omron PLCs, Danfoss, Omron, Siemens variable fre drives VFDs, sensors, PLC programming skills and ability to effectively read and understand wiring plans plus PLC user programs and comments thereof.
• Experience in budgeting Experience in people management
• Experience in execution of projects such as: line commissioning, annual maintenance planning Basic Knowledge of a bottling organization: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety Operational planning expertise/experience
• Delegation skills Understanding of financial impact of decisions
• Ability to think in terms of functional sustainability rather than short term wins
• Ability to select and assess first-line managers
• Coaching direct reports and mentoring others
• Ability to empower managers
• Ability to translate function strategy into unit/section’s plan
• Ability to lead and manage change
• Ability to set standards for management performance
• High integrity Ability to build relationships to improve results
• Ability to understand what drives peers in other units
• Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things
• Intellectual curiosity
• Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy
• Ability to implement quality and health, safety & environment improvements

Job Title: Plant Spareparts Storekeeper
Job Reference PSPS/03/2017
Department Audit
Job Details 
The Plant Spare parts Storekeeper reports to the Plant Engineer and the key responsibilities for the role are: 

• Make a documentation with the prescribed template for the creation of the needed Material with required CCHellenic attributes in liaison with the maintenance planners and plant Engineer..
• Ensure Inventory Optimization through stock verification in own plant and NBC to ensure you share inventory with plant who has stock.
• Make ordering of stock using system PRs for STOs and chasing STO delivery.
• Ensure Quality and Quantity inspection of all incoming spare parts.
• Maintain Inventory accuracy with correct quantity check, correct classification, correct batch numbers, correct sub-packaging, correct labelling, updated bar code labels, correct posting of bin cards, on-line posting of transactions in SAP and correct stock reconciliation.
• Issue materials in active reservation at 100% strike rate to work orders.
• Receive spare parts returned to store with proper credit and debit.
• Ensure Quality of stock with correct storage arrangement, Appropriate Storage condition, practicing FIFO and Age analysis report.
• Train the store clerks and ensure maximum safety for the personnel.
• Maintain effective communication with Maintenance, Finance, Central stores, other plants storekeepers and Suppliers.
• Ensure accurate quarterly Physical Inventory, regular circle count and reconciliation of short/over with Finance.
• Generate stock reports from SAP for regular management decision such as: Duplicated material codes, slow movers, Spare Parts for decommissioned equipment.
• Verify materials in transit against your plant and from your plant to enable them cleared within the financial period.
• Ensure proper handling of any other assignments /duties given by management.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Desired Candidate Profile 

• •B.sc or HND Degree in Engineering or Purchasing and Supply,with minimum of 5 years as a store clerk in a spare parts store of an FMCG (P&M)
• •OND with Min of 10years experience as a store clerk in a spare parts store of an FMCG (P&M) •Technically inclined and able to identify spare parts and their general functions.
• •Good understanding and experience of (SAP) system for Spare parts inventory management.
• •Good in quantitative analysis, good application of excel, word and power point.
• •Passion for clean and neat store layout.
• •Knowledge of Engineering Maintenance practices.
• •People friendly and team player.
• •Availability for service on demand after regular work hours.

Key competencies and skills required are: 

• •Passion
• •Leadership
• •Gets Results
• •Team work
• •Judgment
• •Focus
• •Communication
• •Spare managements and leadership.
• •Store arrangements and security skills.
• •People Management skills.

 
Job Title: Utility Engineer
Job Reference: UE/02/2017
Location: Nigeria
Functional areas: Engineering
Department: Supply Chain
Job Description
The Utility Engineer reports to the Plant Engineer and the key responsibilities of the role are: 

• Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on maintenance strategy execution in area of responsibility that includes water treatment plants, effluent treatment plants, iron removal plants, steam boilers, air compressors-high & low pressure, cooling compressors, chillers, air handling systems pumps etc.
• Participates in organization – and executes annual overhaul of production lines.
• Improves reliability and efficiencies by ensuring optimal execution of maintenance tasks.
• Participates in developing business plans targeting productivity improvement and increased cost efficiency
• Contributes to preparation- and controls annual utilities related maintenance budget ensuring sufficient funds to cover all routines and initiatives reflected in strategy & operational plans.
• Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects
• Effectively applies business performance review (E2020) management routine
• Optimizes the ability of assets to operation
• Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data
• Maintains effective systems to ensure CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Prepares, presents and interprets Maintenance KBI’s, makes recommendations which result in increased productivity and efficiency; reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction
• Achievement of business targets by optimal use of labour and materials
• Analyses cost centre variances and investigates ways to improve cost performance
• Understands and controls main cost drivers in Maintenance
• Ensures full use of SAP Plant Maintenance module to be able to monitor cost and execution of utilities related maintenance activities
• Builds maintenance teams’ capabilities through implementation of training and development programs
• Ensures IDP’s are in place and executed for all direct reports
• Ensures training programmes are attended by all nominated team members. Follows up implementation of leanings
• Develops unit capabilities to achieve maximum utilization of technology and equipment
• Effectively applies approved selection and development tools for recruitment and development of employees
• Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance and develops successors
• Communicates unit strategy and ensures that all unit members understand and accept it
• Leads processes, systems and people side of all change initiatives in the unit
• Sets stretching but achievable objectives for all people in the unit
• Addresses poor performers quickly at all levels
• Lives and promotes company values and culture, and helps employees to understand and embrace them
• Personally lives the Company values and Code of Business Conduct and demonstrates them consistently
• Implements performance management systems with discipline in order to ensure that all first-line managers deliver full performance
• Regularly updates team members on company processes, changes and initiatives
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers, peers, institutions, suppliers
• Builds productive relationships with the employee/ union representatives
• Builds and re-reinforces relationships with Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Production Planning
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with the relevant government bodies
• Ensures continuous process improvement by exploring Group and industry benchmark and employees input
• Listens to and encourages employee recommendations and implements the ones delivering values quickly
• Learns and implements best practices from outside and shares own best practices within CC Hellenic
• Promotes process automation and use of technology
• Ensure all Health, Safety & Environment policies and procedures are in place and followed
• Ensures all work is carried out in a safe and appropriate manner by maintenance personnel and service/contractor personnel
• Ensures Maintenance impact on environment is minimized and within the CC Hellenic and regulatory limits
• Implements and provides disciplined monitoring and reporting regarding the implementation of labour legislation, certification standards, CC Hellenic/TCCC CSR Practices and international agreements
• Plays a leading role in implementing communication and actions which put the Quality First (product, behaviour, communication, etc.)
• Ensures property and loss prevention.

Requirements
Desired Candidate Profile:

• B.Sc in Electrical/Mechanical/Chemical Engineering or Suitable Equivalent with 6 years working experience in the field of Production Management or Maintenance in Food or Beverage Industry.
• Experience in budgeting. Experience in people management.
• Experience in execution of projects such as: line commissioning, annual maintenance planning.
• Knowledge of a bottling organization: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety. Operational planning expertise/experience.
• Delegation skills. Full knowledge of SC strategy.
• Understanding of financial impact of decisions.
• Ability to think in terms of functional sustainability rather than short term wins.
• Ability to select and assess first-line managers.
• Coaching direct reports and mentoring others.
• Ability to empower managers.
• Ability to translate function strategy into unit/section’s plan.
• Ability to lead and manage change.
• Ability to set standards for management performance. High integrity.
• Ability to build relationships to improve results.
• Ability to understand what drives peers in other units.
• Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things. Intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy.
• Ability to implement quality and health, safety & environment improvements

Job Title: Automation/Electrical Technician
Job Reference: AET/02/2017
Location: Nigeria 
Functional Areas: Engineering
Department: Engineering
Job Details

• The Automation/Electrical Technician reports to the Electrical Engineer.
• The key responsibilities is to carry out maintenance of all electrical/automation equipment (bottling and utilities) and their controls while ensuring high equipment reliability, high product quality, zero safety incidents and consistent delivery of budgeted volume targets.

Responsibilities

• Do proper troubleshooting and repair of all electrical and automated machinery and all related controls.
• Ensure machine up-time at all time by ensuring continuous engineering response improvement.
• Drive loss elimination on all lines.
• Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly condition monitoring is carried out.
• Other duties or responsibilities specified by the superior, resulting from the actual and specific requirements of the job in a given location.
• Ensure that contractors that work on any electrical equipment work safely and comply with all safety rules within the plant.
• Ensure that all machine guards, safety switches and status indicators on all equipment are in place and functional.
• Ensure a clean uniform and the required PPE are used always.
• Ensure all equipment panels are numbered, clean, dry and closed all the time.
• Ensure proper technical tools management.
• Ensure all cables (power and control) are clean, terminals firmly secured, adequately glanded, properly labeled and well arranged in the cable trays and covered.
• Ensure all breakers and fuses are adequately rated and set, and no vibrating or humming contactors or relays in the panel
• Ensure all filters are clean and panel cooling ACs are working.
• Ensure all electric motors are numbered and labeled and the label MUST correspond with the identity in the manual and the contactors in the panel.
• Keep physical record of all electric motor on your line or assigned areas the record must indicate which motor has problems and how it was solved.
• All electric motors MUST have their fan blades in place and in good form with fan covers.
• All motors must be clean and must not overheat, MUST be IP55 compliance.
• Ensure routine electrical/ automation maintenance are carried out as at when due on all equipment.
• Document and sign off all maintenance activities.

RequirementsDesired Candidate Profile:

• Experience needed 2 years.
• Relevant Technician Qualification preferably OND in Electrical Engineering or City & Guild part II or its equivalent.
• Basic Programmable Logic Control troubleshooting preferably Siemens S7.
• Instrumentation and Electro-pneumatics skills.
• Sound knowledge of electrical wiring diagram.
• Fair level of computer literacy.
• Good command of the English language.
• Proven problem solving skills must be minimum average.
• Basic understanding of bottling technology.
• Knowledge of maintenance procedures.
• Basic organizational & time management skills.
• Knowledge of interpretation of policies, procedures and systems in manufacturing.
• Drive for results.
• Timely feedback giving skills.
• Teamwork skills/mindset and high integrity.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Willingness to experiment and try new ideas.

How to Apply

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Deadline  16th March, 2017.