Utilities Manager

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Position Description: To lead the Utilities team and ensure that the routine operational requirements are met and that there is a focus on continual improvement. Act as leader and coach of the Utilities team providing direction and support to:

• Ensure that the Utilities are produced and distributed in a manner that meets the Safety, Quality, Cost, environmental and service requirements.
• Ensure access to equipment in order that maintenance activities and programs are carried out in proactive and compliant manner to improve Safety, Reliability, Quality, and Efficiency.
• Oversee all aspects of the Utilities, shift operations function including labour resource management that ensures operational standards and key result areas are achieved via Shift Leader Group.
• Ensure 100% service and continuous utility supply to the internal customer 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

The role of Utilities involves being a point of contact for our internal customers in the event of any interruption in utility supply. Good communication with internal customers is an essential element.

Functions, Duties, Tasks:

• Leadership and Direction setting: Establish clear goals and expectations for team and provide inspiration and consistent encouragement to meet goals including measurement against achievable targets.
• Manage: Performance management process, ensure all members of the operations team have clear objectives, agreed development plan and progress is tracked through regular 1:1 and formal check ins. Manage Pro-time and OTS and absence management of operations team. Provide contractor assessments for temporary employees. Assign and review learning plans for all operators and ensure all are fully trained to carry out their jobs.
• Coaching: Serve as the coach for a substantially self-directed team by developing capabilities of team members and supporting team needs through role as representative of the team to the site and other groups.
• Financial: Ensure optimum production and distribution of the site utilities, having responsibility and management control for identified team expense budgets. Ensure the shift group support the implementation of initiatives related to cost reduction / waste minimisation.
• Operational excellence: Formulate & implement Utilities team strategic business planning process. Ensure services provided by the team to site meet their needs for Safety, Quality, Reliability, in a cost-effective manner. Plan and co-ordinate work within the Utilities group to ensure that internal customer requirements are satisfied. These include the escalation of emergency engineering work requests with the maintenance team and assurance of a reliable and continuous supply of site utilities at the defined quality parameters. Ensure Utilities team members understand business priorities & implement any initiatives required efficiently. Facilitate and represent The Utilities team at the Site DIUC Forum.
• EHS: Accountable for ensuring that Environmental, Health & Safety standards are achieved and maintained. Support the work necessary to meet EHS/PSM requirements. (Audits, EHS Meetings, Incident Investigation, Safe Work Practice).
• Legionella: Responsible for aspects relating to the 'control of legionella' in Cooling Tower Systems.
• PSM: Utilities Representative on the Site PSM steering committee, when required.
• Energy Centre: Accountable for the Management of the CHP (Combined Heat & Power) plant through a third party. Ensuring that the third party meet their contractual obligations and driving them for continual improvement.
• Technical: Act as a focal point for the team in providing focus for process and technical input. Ensure that routine activities are conducted in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures and cGMP guidelines. Act as team representative for Raw Material requirements through use of SAP.
• Communication: Network with internal customers and external suppliers to maximise overall effectiveness of the services provided by the utilities team. Facilitate group meetings / briefing sessions that support and give continuity to the shift operation. (e.g., huddles, shift handovers, shift logs etc.)
• Trade Effluent and Energy Management Oversight: identifying efficiency improvements Work with cross-site teams to ensure opportunities are explored/implemented.

Minimum Qualification (education, experience and/or training, required certifications): BEng/BSc in scientific or engineering discipline.

Delegation of authority: In the absence of the Utilities Manager delegation of authority will sit with the Fermentation/Recovery Director or Snr Director of Operations.

Other Information: Organisation The (Utilities) team have responsibility for supplying the site with primary utilities - Water for Operations, Cooling Water, Chilled Water, Glycol, Steam, HP Air, Nitrogen, Electricity, Caustic. The Utilities Team also has oversight of the Site Trade Effluent Systems. Reporting to the Snr Director of Operations, the Utilities Manager is responsible for a team consisting of Utilities Operations, Process Engineer, Maintenance Support Engineer, Oversight of the Energy Centre through a 3rd party contract.