Senior Factory Engineering Manager

Position Summary

Senior Manager, Factory Engineering – responsible for managing engineering activities related to the factory and providing professional engineering and strategic technical leadership ensuring people health, safety, product safety, and environment are never compromised. Strategic leader for engineering function, leveraging Nestlé’s leadership principles in capital execution, asset maintenance and utilities excellence, engineering compliance, and sustainability.

Important note:
This position offers relocation assistance.

• People:
  • Define, propose and monitor the implementation of the Factory Engineering Teams plans and objectives in accordance with Engineering Policy, Key Principles and the Key Engineering Activities as outlined in the Nestlé Engineering Excellence master document.
  • Live Nestlé leadership principles in all aspects of the role.
  • Set the technical strategic vision for the factory, leveraging other functional leaders and cascading objectives to all leaders in the engineering department within factory cost targets.
  • Develop and maintain technical competencies at the factory, including detailed action plans, accountability to progress, talent review, career and succession planning.
• Maintenance and Improvement:
  • Drive equipment reliability through implementing maintenance foundations in TPM.
  • Build cooperation and collaboration with the production and other cross‑functional teams to build world‑class operation.
  • Improve maintenance cost structure by improving technical skill sets and optimizing 3rd‑party spend.
• Project Management:
  • Implement Nestlé capital process to drive excellence in capital execution.
  • Proactively develop, maintain and execute the capital market business strategy (MBS) to align with the business needs.
  • Drive factory master planning to facilitate long‑term strategies across the factory for example in Safety, Quality and Warehouse.
• Industrial Services/Sustainability:
  • Ensure full compliance with all governing bodies for utilities system relevant to the Modesto site. This is paramount and non‑negotiable to have strong understanding in these utilities system.
  • Maintain reliability through implementing maintenance foundations and TPM methodology.
  • Develop and maintain all skillset necessary for internal management of utilities systems.
  • Drive and execute plant sustainability objectives in line with market targets.
  • Drive world‑class water management in the factory.
• Electrical & Automation:
  • Drive reliability in all electrical components in the factory.
  • Develop and drive automation plan for the factory.
  • Ensure full compliance with Nestlé standards including calibration.
  • Develop technical skills in maintenance to ensure electrical reliability.
• Process & Packaging Optimization:
  • Drive Innovation/Renovation, initiating/ coordinating implementation of new processes/technology with relevant Market, Product Technology Center, Corporate and Strategic Business Unit.

• Cascaded objectives to all leaders that are in‑line with factory objectives – Implement strategic technical OMP and factory master plan.
• Detailed cost management plan for all aspects of engineering including YoY improvements.
• Detailed action plan for all aspects of technical execution.
• Maintenance Foundations/TPM.
• Corporate resources and Nestlé Market standards.

• University Degree (BA/BS) in Engineering, preferably Mechanical, Chemical, Process or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years related work experience.
• 3+ years of leadership/management experience required.
• Knowledge of food safety, regulatory requirements for food safety and hygienic engineering (OSHA & R) preferred.
• Strong understanding of, or ability to learn, the full scope of role responsibilities, including financial analysis and key business drivers such as Nestlé Standard Costing, Asset and Maintenance Management (AMM), CAPEX budgeting and preparation (CIAT), and Industrial Services/Energy Management (NEMT).
• Familiarity with TPM and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Visio, CDM, AMM, ESAT, CIAT, NEMT and similar technical tools/systems.
• Demonstrated technical and…