Position Title:  Process Lead

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’

Sustainability & legal compliance and adherence to the standard

• Ensure full compliance with local legislation, company policies and practices and the IMS.
• Adhere to all Environment, and Health, Safety, and Security rules, policies and practices by applying and ensuring workplace and other employee in compliance with norms by local regulation. 
• As the incident elimination DMS owner, he/she has to review safety incident investigations to ensure the corrective actions are in place.
• Execute weekly DMSs health checks to identify gaps and constraints in the organization and implement appropriate countermeasures accordingly. 

QMS Compliance

• Ensures compliance to all PMI and Legal standards and guidelines related to Quality of incoming materials, SFGs and FGs in line with the QMS. 
• Ensuring ownership of quality by focusing on quality at the source. Routine checks are done timely and efficiently, QFs and QIs are timely raised and addressed. 
• Analysis and continuous improvement (IPS/UPS) towards elimination of potential quality losses.

Daily Direction setting

• Participates on setting the 24 hours direction for the CC line(s) during the Daily Direction Setting (DDS) and is actively involved in the execution of the daily plan.
• Provides data during the DDS meeting related to the line event data system. Responsible for following up Center Line, Rapid Change Over and Change Management DMSs and the use and quality of IPS/UPS tools.
• Provides data with corresponding analysis during DDS meeting and investigates losses assigned.

Centerline (CL) Management

• Creates and establishes CL targets & limits for the CC line(s).
• Is responsible to review, validate and update new CL standard of the line(s) in order to meet the business results.
• Develops the control strategies to enable operators to respond to out of control situations, furthermore ensures that documentation is in place and used in the line(s) whenever out of limit situations occur.  
• Owns and ensures the DMS is executed as per Standard and provides feedback or input to Regional Governance for improvement items.
• Develops and Improves Standards not limited to Daily Management Systems owned as Process Lead.

Drives performance through loss elimination and continuous improvement

• Leads problem-solving activities using standard problem-solving tools such as IPS, 6W2H & UPS to solve the chronic problems on the line(s) in a timely manner.
• Drives centerline daily management system and loss elimination processes by applying standard tools according to Integrated Operating System (IOS) standards.
• As the Owner of Line Event Data Systems, he/she ensures the integrity of the data from his/her lines.

Owner of the Reliability Engineering Tools such as S-Shape and Weibull

• Provides support to Line Structure and Leadership in applying the RE Tools to support the analysis in building the team's 90-day plan.
• Owns the PR Loss Tree and responsible in building an accurate data and information for the Line Structure action planning.
• Responsible in building capability of the LS and Team on PR Loss Tree and Reliability Engineering tools.

Rapid Changeover (RCO) Management

• Creates and establishes changeover standards for all appropriate SKUs in the line(s).
• Reviews changeover critiques and coaches the team to identify and implement improvement opportunities to achieve RCO success criteria’s and standards.
• Leads and participates actively in the Rapid Changeover events to identify additional opportunities for change over process optimization.

Capability building in problem solving and technical mastery

• Builds the capability of team on process failures technical troubleshooting and mastery of process transformation through coaching and delivering on the job training. 
• Ensure the completion of the established training plan.
• Build the capability of LS and Line Team in the effective use of IPS/UPS and Work Point Analysis (WPA) tools.

Change management 

• Leads change management processes including benchmarking and reapplication activities across appropriate production lines, business units and factory.

Pillar member of FI Pillar

• Supports the Pillar leader in building the capabilities and delivering the Pillar Master Plan.
• Owns a DMS/tool at site level and/or acts as department point of contact (SPOC).
• Participates in Pillar routine.
• Calibrates DMS/tool application within the site. Is responsible to certify employees on the DMS/tool.
• Works closely with the department to build capabilities.

Who we’re looking for

• Qualification: Minimum Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical/ Mechanical/Electronics/Mechatronics/Chemical Engineering)
• Minimum of 1 to 2 years of experience in Plant Operations - management/supervision role (Production Planning/Scheduling, Shift Operations and Maintenance)
• Strong experience in Manufacturing Environment, including Production Planning/Scheduling, Shift Operations and Maintenance in a reputable organization
• Experience in FMCG, Process or Tobacco Industry will be preferred
• Good knowledge of Safety & Quality management systems: OH&S, QMS, Data & Documentation management, Performance Management, Lean Manufacturing.
• Comfortable working with Data/Numbers/Dashboards etc. is a core skill for this role.
• Experience in Manufacturing Excellence/IWS/OPEN+/Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma will be an asset.
• Experience in Process Industry, Tobacco Threshing, Stemmery Operations will be preferred. This role pertains to Green Leaf Threshing Plant which includes pre-processing of Green Tobacco before it is processed/converted/packed as Cigarettes.

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.