PRODUCTION ENGINEER (JAMAICA)

Job Summary: The Production Engineer supports Plant operations by providing engineering and project management expertise to ensure efficient production, meeting customer demand and operational requirements while adhering to company standards and HSSE and regulatory policies.

Job Responsibilities

1. Supervise Operators and assigned staff, including planning work, communicating job expectations, monitoring performance, and appraising job results to ensure individual and department targets are met. 
2. Troubleshoot process problems, takes necessary corrective action, and provides recommendations for re-engineering and improvement to plant equipment and processes to enhance plant efficiency, reliability and performance.   
3. Monitor and manage all production processes to ensure that they are kept within standard operating procedures (SOP) and standard operating conditions and limits (SOCL). 
4. Verify that quality control measures are maintained in all production areas, to uphold product standards. 
5. Evaluate Plant economics to determine optimum operating efficiencies; and re-design/modify plant to improve process and reliability. 
6. Contribute to the development of the annual departmental budget and submit recommendations on capital expenditure projects/upgrades to support operational efficiency and long-term growth. 
7. Maintain records, including production logs (hard copies) and required entries on the Company’s ERP system (D365) and prepare monthly and daily reports for all production areas, to support data-driven decision-making and compliance.  
8. Conduct safety inspection in production centre in accordance with regulatory standards to ensure compliance and minimize risk.  
9. Conduct routine equipment function testing to minimize downtime and fulfil sales demand for finished product. 
10. Manage raw materials, spare parts and finished goods stock and reconcile report within specified timeframe to support efficient production and inventory control.  
11. Perform any other job duties as required by the job function.  

Qualifications and Experience

1. BSc. Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical Engineering from a recognised institution.
2. A minimum of three (3) years’ work experience in a manufacturing environment at a supervisory level.
3. Adopts a whole systems perspective, assessing and balancing vast amounts of diverse information, identifies multiple relationships and disconnects processes to identify options and reach conclusions. Ability to think strategically and innovatively.  
4. Uses individual as well as group goal setting to maximize performance. Challenges rules or practices that present inappropriate barriers to independent action and decision-making. Brings excellent performance to the attention of the larger organization. Seeks resources that will enhance the team’s productivity.  
5. Applies and improves extensive or in-depth specialized knowledge, skills, and judgment to accomplish results or to accomplish one’s job effectively 
6. Ability to manage employee performance for success where goals are created, competencies are incorporated, and constructive feedback is provided for continuous improvement.
7. Enforces and upholds safety standards, ensuring compliance with Chlorine Institute Guidelines, ISO 9001, and OHSAS 18001 standards.  
8. Provides guidance to others to assist them in coping with difficult or demanding situations. Implements practices or policies that empower people to overcome challenges and disruptions. Helps others remain energized, focused, and productive in the face of ongoing or frequent situations involving high-level stress.  
9. Sets highly challenging and attainable goals for own organizational area. Assesses group performance against goals to identify areas for improvement. Improves inefficient/ineffective work processes. Uses positive motivational approaches, tailored to diverse individuals and groups, to help staff improve performance, maximize results and minimize risk.  
10. Foresees longer-term implications of proposed positions, options and approaches that are not readily apparent. Exercises sound judgment in new situations in the absence of specific guidance. Evaluates emerging opportunities and risks when articulating astute and defensible options and recommendations. Selects new information to share with key stakeholders in order to influence their understanding and decisions. Identifies the organizational context and priorities, how they interact and how they affect issues. Identifies the problem based on a broad range of factors, many of which are ambiguous or difficult to define.