Mechanical Team Lead: Curing & Final Inspection

Mechanical Team Lead

Our company

Tokyo-based Bridgestone Corporation is the world’s largest manufacturer of tires and other rubber products. We employ over 140,000 people around the world, operate 3 technical centers and 178 manufacturing plants and sell products in more than 150 countries. "Serving Society with Superior Quality” has been our mission since Shojiro Ishibashi founded Bridgestone in 1931 and we look for individuals who share our passion to fulfill this mission.

Facilities & Resources

Bridgestone EMEA operates in more than 60 countries and employs over 16,000 employees in its offices and plants:

• 9 Sales Regions with offices in Birmingham, Warsaw, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Bad Hamburg, Moscow, Johannesburg, and Dubai
• 14 plants in France (Bethune), Belgium (Lanklaar and Liege), Italy (Bari), Poland (Stargard and Poznan), Hungary (Tatabanya), Spain (Bilbao, Puente San Miguel and Burgos), South Africa (Brits), Russia (Ulyanovsk) and a joint venture in Turkey ( Izmit)
• A raw materials plant in Spain (Usansolo)
• A leading R&D facility in Italy
• A state of the art proving grounds in Italy and Sweden
• The EMEA headquarters in Zaventem, Belgium.

Sales & Products

• With its leading materials technology, the company focuses on high-performance tyres:
  A major supplier of original equipment to car manufacturers (including VW/Audi 

group, BMW, Mercedes, General Motors, Toyota, Nissen- Renault, etc.)

• A pioneer in Run-Flat Technology tyres and major supplier to car manufacturers
• A leading manufacturer in the agricultural market
• A leading manufacturer in the motorcycle market
• A leading brand in the truck & bus replacement market and a leading supplier to vehicle

manufacturers (Mercedes, Renault, Volvo, Scania, MAN, DAF, Iveco, etc.)

Our tyres are sold under the Bridgestone, Firestone, Dayton and other brand names for:
 

• Passenger cars, 4x4 vehicles
• Trucks and buses
• All types of commercial, construction and off-the-road vehicles
• Tractors and agricultural machinery
• Motorcycles and scooters
• Motor sport
• Aircraft

In addition to our Products, we also provide integrated fleet solutions as well as repair and maintenance services through our extensive fleet network.

For more information on our company please visit www.bridgestone.com and www.bridgestone.eu. To experience more about life at Bridgestone, check out the following link http://www.bridgestonenewsroom.eu/

Job purpose

To manage and provide technical support as required for delivery of all the mechanical equipment required to achieve organisational goals.

Main responsibilities

•  Maintain and reduce machine downtime

Planned Maintenance and condition monitoring

Repair breakdowns & do faultfinding.

Daily walkthrough inspections.

Make running adjustments.

  Note items for repair.

• Continuous improvement initiatives

         Attend CFT activities.

• Safety

        Work according to SOP’s.

• Housekeeping

        Apply 3S principles.

Qualified candidates for this important position will therefore need to demonstrate the following:

• Agility – to work in a matrix and complex environment where change happens at a rapid pace
• Courage – to share ideas, think out of the box
• Ownership – to see the bigger picture and take ownership by thinking and acting beyond the role

Bridgestone LEADERSHIP ESSENCE

Qualified candidates for this important position will therefore need to demonstrate the following:

• Establishes strategic direction and effectively communicates the vision:  Communicates a clear and inspiring vision for the business; drives competitive and innovative strategies and is able to generate alignment against the strategic direction
• Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others:  Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence
• Promotes and enhances company culture:  Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs
• Effectively manages across cultures: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity
• Demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence:  Recognizes one’s personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits.  Understands emotions and their effects
• Intellectually curious in support of learning agility:  Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application
• Embraces and leads change and innovation:  Encourages different and innovative approaches to address problems and opportunities; facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change within the organization
• Identifies and develops organizational talent:  Attracts high calibre diverse talent , leads and guides others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives through on-going development and collaboration

Required capabilities

• Dependable quality of work to care for and maintain equipment.
• Ensure minimum downtime.

Education:

• N3 Mechanical Engineering
• Qualified Artisan (trade Test at a recognised institution)

Experience:

• 3 – 5 years’ experience in a similar role (Engineering or Manufacturing environment)