Lead Project and Engineering Manager Vacancy at UAC of Nigeria Plc

UAC of Nigeria Plc. is a leading private sector enterprise with active participation in the development of the country since 1879. A diversified, food-focused company, UAC’s operations span the animal feeds, packaged foods, real estate, paints, and logistics sectors of the economy. We are committed to building and developing our people towards realizing their full potentials.

Lead Project and Engineering Manager Vacancy at UAC of Nigeria Plc. Please check the details to know more about the job.

Job Title: Lead Project and Engineering Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• Responsible for manning all the interrelated activities, interests and resources required to successfully execute any project (Greenfield project inclusive) within time, budget, quality and safety constraints in a FMCG company.
• Develop and implement overall asset care strategy to deliver production efficiencies across all 3 plants in UFL and Head Office to meet sales demand in a cost-effective way without compromising on quality and Health & Safety whilst building a highly-skilled Technical crew to ensure equipment reliability and sustainability.

You will be accountable for:
Projects:

• Project Scenario and Conceptualisation
• Basic Project Engineering from Budget cost/ Activity/ Risk management Planning to Preparation of Process & Instrumentation (P & ID), Plan Layout,3D Piping diagrams to Project Data Book to Enginerring design to Operational and Financil Justifications to Necessary Implementation.
• Detail  Engineering- Layout, Workflow, Detailed cost planning, BOQ, Activity Planning, Procurement, Change control , Organization & Maintenance Planning
• Resource Mobilisation/ Allocation of Manpower, tools, equipment
• Timely Installation/ Commissioning of Projects
• Stakeholder management (Project sponsor, principal, internal customers, suppliers, equipment/ component manufacturers, engineers & specialists) on timely and quality delivery of projects
• Risk and safety management
• Management of complexity for multiple projects
• Reporting- expenditure monitoring, cost comparison analysis, assets categorization

Engineering:

• Responsible for quantity, quality and cost of engineering maintenance in Ojota, Oregun and Jos plants. Ensure availability of plants/machinery for productive use at all times
• Organize and execute planned preventive maintenance of plant and machinery using the most efficient and cost-effective methodology
• Evaluate and analyze breakdown deployments and hold PM meetings to discuss problems, their causes and parts required for effective maintenance
• Be the custodian of the maintenance policy of the plants and give general direction to the maintenance philosophy functioning as Maintenance leader of all plants.
• Accountable for spare parts management to ensure optimum stock value, stock ratio, and turnover ratio and spares accuracy.
• Ensure uninterrupted Utility Services – water, electricity for all operations in the plants
• Maintain the cooling plant and ensure availability of cooling medium at the required temperature and flow for cooling various cooling operations
• Accountable for the plants total repair and maintenance budget and utilities generation and distribution budget. Responsible for the National Engineering department budget.
• Responsible for quantity and quality approvals of all purchase orders in SAP to ensure alignment with departmental budget and debit codes.
• Responsible for maintenance aspect of the ETP
• Liaise with group in design, selection of equipment, FAT, execution, commissioning and SAT (Site-Acceptance-Test) on all new projects and major modification.
• Make justifications for fund application, Execute all CAPEX and REM and Monitor and control budget

Requirements
The ideal candidate will possess:

• B.Sc./B. Eng. Engineering.
• Minimum of 15 years of management experience; 10 years should be in Project / Engineering management in FMCG companies.
• Great Project Management skills
• Exceptional at Creativity, applied learning, numerical ability and critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Integrity, flexibility, self-control, customer and management empathy
• Any internationally recognized Project Management Certification
• Membership of NSE, COREN is an added advantage

Application Deadline

2nd October 2020.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the position as the subject of the email.