Title:  Plant Engineer

JOB PURPOSE: The position provides strategic leadership to the Engineering and Maintenance Group, formulating and executing comprehensive asset management strategies, ensuring optimal equipment reliability, full regulatory compliance, energy efficiency, and cost-effective operations. As the designated Certified Energy Manager (CEM) under RA 11285 (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act), the role oversees the plant's energy management program, including reporting, audits, and conservation initiatives. The role directs the planning, oversight, and continuous improvement of all engineering, maintenance, utilities, facilities, materials management, CMMS administration, safety, environmental protection, energy conservation, and automation/IT systems programs (including outsourced OEM support for WINCOS, WINISI, SAP ERP/PM, Windows, O365, and network infrastructure) through effective management of in-house specialists and outsourced implementation by SMC-RMI and OEM providers. The absolute objectives are zero downtime due to accidents, zero notices of violation, and zero unplanned production losses attributable to safety or compliance failures, thereby sustaining safe, sustainable, and high-performance feed manufacturing operations.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

KPA 1: ASSET MANAGEMENT AND RELIABILITY

Responsibility: Formulate and lead enterprise-level asset management and reliability strategies

Main Tasks:

1. Analyze the entire plant asset portfolio to identify critical equipment and develop a prioritized, risk-based asset management framework aligned with organizational objectives and ISO 55000 principles.
2. Evaluate equipment criticality ratings, lifecycle costs, historical performance data, and failure patterns to prioritize capital investments and formulate long-term reliability enhancement roadmaps.
3. Synthesize data from failure trends, root cause analyses, predictive maintenance outputs, and operational feedback to design and champion proactive, reliability-centered maintenance initiatives across all facility areas.
4. Direct the identification, technical evaluation, and economic justification of emerging technologies for equipment upgrades, modifications, and retrofits to elevate overall plant effectiveness and OEE.
5. Create and institutionalize asset decommissioning protocols, including risk assessment, environmental impact evaluation, and replacement planning for obsolete equipment.
6. Design and lead cross-functional teams to develop asset-specific improvement projects, integrating inputs from Production, Quality, and Safety departments.
7. Formulate key performance indicators for asset health, monitoring trends and initiating strategic interventions when deviations occur.
8. Evaluate vendor proposals for new assets, ensuring alignment with reliability standards, spare parts availability, and total cost of ownership.
9. Synthesize lessons learned from major breakdowns or projects to revise asset management policies and standards.
10. Champion the adoption of digital tools for asset tracking, performance monitoring, and decision support across the engineering group.

KPA-2:  ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE (RA 11285)

Responsibility: Lead energy efficiency and conservation as Certified Energy Manager

Main Tasks:

1. Act as the officially designated Certified Energy Manager per RA 11285, assuming full accountability for developing, implementing, and continually improving the plant energy management system.
2. Conduct comprehensive energy audits, establishing accurate baselines, identifying significant energy uses, and prioritizing conservation opportunities.
3. Formulate annual energy conservation programs with measurable targets, securing management approval and allocating resources for execution.
4. Monitor real-time and historical energy consumption patterns, analyzing variances and designing corrective actions to achieve reduction goals.
5. Prepare, review, and submit all mandatory energy reporting documents to the Department of Energy, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
6. Evaluate energy performance of new projects or modifications during design phase to incorporate efficiency measures from inception.
7. Lead cross-functional energy conservation teams, integrating inputs from Utilities, Production, and Facilities engineers.
8. Design and implement employee awareness programs on energy conservation, measuring behavioral impact on consumption.
9. Synthesize energy data with production output to develop energy performance indicators (EnPIs) and track improvements.
10. Coordinate with external energy auditors or consultants for validation and certification of energy management practices.

KPA-3:  SAFETY LEADERSHIP AND WORK PERMIT GOVERNANCE

Responsibility: Enforce zero-accident culture and strict permit-to-work system

Main Tasks:

1. Champion absolute zero tolerance for safety violations, personally modeling and reinforcing the objective of zero downtime due to accidents and zero notices of violation.
2. Establish, communicate, and enforce rigorous work permit protocols for all high-risk activities including confined space entry, hot work, working at heights, electrical isolation, lifting, and excavation.
3. Mandate and systematically audit the strict implementation of Lockout/Tagout/Tryout (LOTOTO) procedures across every maintenance intervention, ensuring no exceptions are tolerated.
4. Review and personally authorize critical work permits, critically evaluating risk assessments, control measures, and personnel competency before approval.
5. Design and lead safety leadership training for all supervisors and contractors to embed safety ownership culture.
6. Evaluate near-miss and incident reports, approving corrective actions and tracking effectiveness to prevent recurrence.
7. Create and chair the plant safety steering committee, synthesizing inputs from all departments to formulate proactive safety strategies.
8. Formulate emergency response escalation protocols, testing them through table-top exercises and full-scale drills.
9. Analyze safety performance trends, developing predictive indicators to preemptively address emerging risks.
10. Represent the plant in corporate safety audits, defending programs and committing to rapid closure of findings.

KPA-4:  CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COORDINATION, SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT, AND RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION

Responsibility: Lead collaboration with Production, manage systems, and optimize resources

Main Tasks:

1. Establish and chair regular coordination forums with Production Manager and supervisors to align on maintenance scheduling, work request prioritization, progress monitoring, daily reporting, and TECO coordination in SAP PM.
2. Oversee outsourced OEM support contracts for automation and IT systems including WINCOS (Buhler SCADA), WINISI (NIRS software), SAP ERP/PM integration, Windows infrastructure, Microsoft O365, and network systems.
3. Evaluate system performance, cybersecurity risks, and backup integrity, directing upgrades and patches through OEM providers.
4. Lead, mentor, coach, and formally evaluate the performance of in-house engineering specialists, developing individual growth plans.
5. Exercise functional authority over outsourced trades personnel and OEM providers, setting performance standards and conducting reviews.
6. Formulate and rigorously defend annual departmental budgets, optimizing allocation across maintenance, spares, projects, outsourced services, and IT support.
7. Assess workforce competency gaps, designing and implementing targeted technical and leadership development programs.
8. Coordinate with Finance, HR, and Procurement to streamline processes for capital approvals, recruitment, and vendor payments.
9. Synthesize feedback from all stakeholders to continually improve interdepartmental collaboration and service delivery.

Oversee final quality assurance and approval of technically completed (TECO) work orders in SAP PM, ensuring completeness before closure.