Instrumentation Engineer Needed at PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc

PZ Cussons is a dynamic consumer products group and innovator of some of the world’s best known and loved brands. Calling on over 130 years of expertise, we operate internationally in carefully selected developed and emerging markets that present the greatest strategic potential for future growth. Our world-class supply chain and distribution networks enable us to meet our global consumer needs and deliver quality brands that add value and enhance everyday lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Instrumentation Engineer

Location: Aba, Abia
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• To ensure efficient implementation and coordination of all site instrumentation services that will optimize operation strategies in improving productivity, improving product quality, reducing downtime, reducing waste and developing people’s skills.

Responsibilities
Operational:

• Ensures critical instrumentation systems and processes operate effectively, efficiently and safely.
• Ensures that maintenance cost is tracked and gradual reduction is noticed.
• Ensures that machines operate with minimal downtime
• Ensures reliability and maintainability of equipment.

Leadership:

• Assess technical competence of team and develop plans to address areas of improvement.
• Lead team by example.
• Plan human and material resources for execution of planned maintenance jobs.
• Ensure training/coaching of team for improved productivity and multi-skilling.
• Ensure team adheres strictly to HSE rules and regulations.
• To ensure the effectiveness of the Quality Management System (QMS) and improve on the system.

Innovations:

• Undertake continuous improvement activities to improve uptime, quality and reduce operational cost.

Key Accountability:

• Key Activities: To consistently and visibly demonstrate their personal commitment to an involvement in occupational Health and Safety issues at all times.
• Performance Indicators: Employees, contractors/suppliers and visitor Knowledge and awareness of site policies
• Key Activities: Ensures instrumentation systems and processes operate effectively, efficiently and safely.
• Performance Indicators: Documented calibration schedules.
• Key Activities: Ensures that machines operate with minimal downtime.
• Performance Indicators: Improved uptime
• Key Activities: Takes responsibility for compliance with all EMS related activities in the department.
• To prevent, reduce or control environmental pollution arising from environmental aspects identified in the department as documented in the EMS Manual, Departmental Aspect and Impacts register, EMS related SOPs and other relevant documents.
• Monitor and prepare environmental performance reports relating to the extent of compliance with EMS requirements

Performance Indicators:

• Prepare environmental performance reports in compliance to EMS requirements
• Key Activities: To drive and maintain a high performance in Occupational, Health & Safety and Environmental Care standard/practise
• To consistently and visibly demonstrate their personal commitment to an involvement in occupational Health and Safety issues at all times.
• Ensuring that all incident involving and/ or potentially involving, injury to persons, to property or environment are reported immediately
• Ensure that Health, Safety and Environmental issues are fully considered and successfully resolved during the design, installation and commissioning of all building/process/ procedural modifications and that an appropriate HSE Audit has been successfully completed before modification is handed over to operational management.
• To maintain procedures to enable a quick response to emergency situation if it occurs and minimise its impact on the Health & Safety of employees, contractors, stakeholder and Environmental
• To heighten employees’ HSE awareness and provide appropriate training for employees, emphasising individual responsibility for sound HSE management.
• To be aware of the hazards in the workplace under his control and control measures to reduce the risk presented by those hazards.
• To develop and maintain appropriate two-way communication and training programmes on HSE matters.

Performance Indicators:

• Employees, contractors/suppliers and visitor Knowledge and awareness of site policies
• Reduction in number of factory incidents
• Number of Management of change
• Response and recovery time
• Training Hour recorded and Reduction in number of incidents
• Reduction in number of incidents
• Training Hour recorded
• Key Accountability: To coordinate Good manufacturing Practice activities on site in line with agreed GMP standards (PZC GMP Standard/NAFDAC GMP requirements).

Requirements

• Knowledge, Skills & Experience Needed:
• Required Qualifications: B.Sc. / BEng.   Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Required Experience:

• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft office suite
• Excellent Analytical and Numerical skills
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and control systems, programmable logic controller
• Ability to work under pressure
• Sound knowledge of electrical circuit diagram interpretation.
• Ability to handle electronic equipment and tools.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills with a good eye for details.
• Excellent planning and scheduling skills.
• Good communication skills.

Application Closing Date
22nd September, 2024.