Position Snapshot

Location: Tuas, Singapore
Company: Nestlé
Contract – Full Time
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering or any other engineering discipline
3+ years of experience

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world.  At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.  A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it.  With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.  

We are looking for a Senior Project Engineer to plan the technical side of an investment project ensuring a design for manufacturing excellence (free of waste)  and lead  the execution (from investment project charter until vertical start-up) by managing a cross-functional team whose objective is to oversee the capital investments relating to the company's fixed assets.  This could involve the relocation and optimising of the existing fixed asset base and/or the purchase of new fixed assets.

A day in the life of...

• Before starting the project design phase:
  Support the End to End Project Manager in defining the project team, project scope, success criteria  and milestone deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. Ensure available standards and best practices, as well as understanding of current category loss tree are revised as part of the  project planning , to ensure that  project design credit (AIP) will be efficiently utilized.  Build the investment project charter and ensure that it is strictly followed throughout the project.
• During project design phase:
  Execute the basic and detailed design of the project based on Nestlé Corporate Business Principles, Nestlé Corporate and Category standards, local regulations, the defined User Requirements Specifications and the TPM characteristics of a unit operation (safety, quality, affordability, maintainability, operability and reliability). Ensure by design the workers, and operators, safety during both the construction and the ongoing operation of the plant. Ensure available feedback from previous projects is leveraged to prevent waste and optimize execution. Ensure Category standards and best practices are leveraged in the design to enable Manufacturing Excellence by Leading the Target Setting  Allocation exercise for at leas the bottleneck and critical equipment.
• During the project implementation phase:
  Lead the team and coordinate the contribution of all the stakeholders, to ensure that the fixed asset side of the project is implemented (e.g. buildings and equipment construction, testing, installation and commissioning) in accordance with the defined category standards, timing, cost and quality. And that all of the elements of the project (including technical people training, as needed) in performed in such a way that safety is always guaranteed on the whole project site and a vertical start-up is assured.
• During the start-up phase of the project:
  Coordinate efforts with the start-up manager and their team to ensure a  Vertical Start-up meeting manufacturing excellence criteria and the required production volumes.  Complete and smooth transition to operations after the qualification and verification of the installation.  Prepare and distribute the engineering project documentation, including the engineering part of the project final report, the Project Defect analysis (PDA)  and provide feedback to the Maintenance Prevention System.  Ensure that all new assets are registered in the system and that their expense is properly allocated to start depreciation.  Ensure that the investment project charter has been fulfilled and that the project scope is achieved with the agreed cost and timing.
• During the whole project life:
  Be the engineering project team leader, meaning integrating, motivating, feed backing, coaching, developing, managing and evaluating team members and being their support and liaison with the steering committee and all the project's stakeholders. Keep the End to End Project Manager informed. Keep all the required communication channels open

What will make you successful

• Minimum 3 years' hands on experience in the field of engineering in a manufacturing facility and capital investment projects development and implementation in food industry. 
• Determination of methods to minimize the likelihood of injuries or damages to people and/or equipment (SH&E) Experience in the development of engineering projects as part of a multidisciplinary team (preferably including different products and technologies) 
• Experience in the start-up of technical equipment(s) and/or production line(s) 
• Hands on knowledge as well as strategic, continuous improvement mindset.
• Commitment to a strong work ethic, integrity, honesty, safety, compliance and quality.