Position Title:  Asset Engineer

Be a part of a revolutionary change

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI’s shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning.

Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday and we’ll give you lots of responsibility. You’ll help us improve, inject innovation and create new ways of working. You’ll be solving supply chain problems that span the whole world: a smoke-free world.

Your ‘day to day’:
Plan and manage assets in a cost-effective way, ensuring optimal equipment availability and reliability through assets’ life cycle by developing and implementing of proper maintenance strategies, procedures and routines with focus to assets and maintenance performance in order to meet company objectives in compliance with applicable standards and policies / procedures contributing to continuous improvement culture.

Major accountabilities:

• Develop and improve proactive, cost-effective maintenance strategies based on suitable techniques and procedures. Keep these strategies up to date to enhance equipment availability, reliability, maintainability, safety, and product quality.
• Identify the most frequent causes of machine downtimes and develop substantial solutions to eliminate or significantly reduce these downtimes, thereby improving overall productivity.
• Ensure maintenance planning and scheduling to increase the ratio of proactive (planned) work versus reactive (unplanned) work. This helps fulfill the production plan and ensures timely and proper implementation, fully complying with customer needs, safety norms, quality requirements, and cost objectives. Follow up on the machine standardization plan linked to process improvements and keep it updated.
• Develop and budget annual maintenance plans in collaboration with maintenance supervisors and the production manager. Ensure these plans are implemented properly and on time.
• Assess the reliability of existing equipment that is difficult, costly, or risky to maintain and recommend appropriate actions. Identify opportunities to design out maintenance activities where conventional reliability and maintenance activities are not cost-effective.
• Define spare parts requirements and establish minimum and maximum stock levels for all equipment. Assist in preparing the budget for spare parts, consumables, and small equipment. Ensure that spare parts consumption aligns with the approved budget.
• Coordinate with the production and engineering departments to prepare technical specifications for new machinery purchases. Review and authorize documentation related to new machinery to ensure it meets best practices for equipment, work ergonomics, and business needs.
• Integrate new equipment, conduct necessary risk assessments, and provide input for preparing related documentation to fully comply with legislation and internal procedures.
• Find, implement, and monitor proposed improvements related to equipment.
• Actively participate in the continuous improvement decision-making process, in line with the Change Management process.

Who we’re looking for:

• College Degree in Mechanical/Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 3-4 years of relevant experience in maintenance and asset management.
• Proficiency in SAP.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.

What we offer

Our success depends on our talented employees who come to work here every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.

• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.

• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.

• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.

To join our growing team…

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