Sr Consultant – Controls System

Location: Mumbai Spectra Office

Category: Engineering

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Tags: India

India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

About General Mills

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Haagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T)  Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

Job overview

This role is of a Controls and Information Systems Consultant with focus on developing GMI standard Controls Technology, applications and tools to minimize operations losses and enhance system performance and product quality.

Responsibilities require the incumbent to possess demonstrated ability to develop and drive engineering solutions to Improve, Extend and Sustain GMI Manufacturing Assets and also help meet its business and regulatory requirements. The Engineering Solutions India team caters to engineering requirements for all food manufacturing plants (50+) worldwide in Controls Engineering.

Key Accountabilities

80% of time - Impact Business Results:

• Identify, lead, execute and verify operational, productivity, process capability, and cost reduction opportunities across one focused business platforms.
• Align sponsors, business and stakeholders through project management framework.
• Participate in early management, technical feasibility and conceptual analysis processes to optimize decisions and partner to design, define and deliver competitively advantaged sustainable solutions.
• Optimize the current manufacturing technology infrastructure.
• Develop, deploy and train global minimum and current best practice engineering standards across platforms.
• Oversee portions of capital projects.
• Proactively and routinely audit targeted systems to sustain improvements.
• Understand and leverage manufacturing and financial metrics to optimize cost.
• Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Demonstrate GMI Business / Platforms Knowledge at least 1 platform.
• Demonstrate elementary knowledge of quality, safety and regulatory requirements

20% of time - iLead Technical Community

• Inspire zero loss belief and ability
• Mentor team members to develop technical mastery.
• Engage as a visible learner, doer and mentor
• Assist in enabling plant owners to effectively take care of assets to optimize Life Cycle Cost
• Expand communities of practice to include global capabilities and resources
• Develop mentorships programs for field engineers
• Provide technical support – problem solving and analytical skills.
• Provide ongoing visibility to all stakeholders leveraging process, technology and communication tool

Competencies/Behaviours required for job:

• Technical Excellence: Advanced Technical Leadership in at least one core area of expertise and technical depth in other areas. Applies advanced engineering or scientific principles and concepts in developing original solutions.
• Leads Innovation: Leverages broad and deep understanding of company strategies to innovate solutions which impact business goals.
• Deliver Outstanding Results: Champion Systems and Processes that leads the technical capability of the organization. Proactively prioritize, lead and deliver business results through own and others competitively advantaged services. Demonstrate commitment and accountability for results, performance, success and behaviors for self and group. Be comfortable with ambiguity. Make timely, high quality decisions using the right people and information.
• Energize and Develop People: broadens knowledge base and is proficient in several areas of expertise. Coach, teaches and motivates subordinates. Inspire a high level of commitment and performance in others.
• Collaboration: Builds effective relationships with people of all levels and organization to achieve business goals. Takes initiative to connect people outside the organization and promotes others to do the same.
• Integrity and Candor: Engenders Trust at all levels and demonstrates unquestionable integrity.

Additional Information:

• Candidate should have demonstrated engineering expertise preferably in FMCG industry
• This position reports to the Engineering Management group with the Supply Chain Division at GBS India. Hours of operation are 11 AM to 8 PM Mumbai time (Monday to Friday) with the ability to flex hours as the job demands
• In performing these accountabilities, the incumbent must develop and maintain an effective working relationship with General Mills International employees at all levels across the company locations
• The Job involves travel to worldwide plants on short term basis depending on business requirements.

• Minimum Degree Requirements: Bachelors
• Preferred Degree Requirements:    Masters
• Preferred Major Area of Study: B. Tech / M. Tech in Controls / Electronics / Electrical
• Required Professional Certifications: Globally accredited certifications in Controls
• Preferred Professional Certifications: Six Sigma and (or) PMP ( These certifications are not mandatory)
• Minimum years of related experience required: 10 years
• Preferred years of related experience: 10-12 years

Preferred Qualification & Skills

• Proven expertise in controls and information technology viz. Instrumentation, PLC, HMI, SCADA, MES, MOM, Electrical System Design, Enterprise / Plant Floor Integration and plant and enterprise networks viz. Ethernet, Devicenet, Profinet, and Controlnet etc.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Design, installation and commissioning.
• Systems expertise in Wonderware System Platform, Rockwell, Siemens
• Programming experience in .NET, Iron Python, Power Shell, XML, R, SQL

Must have skills:

• Mandatory hands-on capital project management experience in the Food or FMCG industry, including high-value and complex projects.

Responsibilities

About General Mills

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Haagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T)  Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

Job overview

This role is of a Controls and Information Systems Consultant with focus on developing GMI standard Controls Technology, applications and tools to minimize operations losses and enhance system performance and product quality.

Responsibilities require the incumbent to possess demonstrated ability to develop and drive engineering solutions to Improve, Extend and Sustain GMI Manufacturing Assets and also help meet its business and regulatory requirements. The Engineering Solutions India team caters to engineering requirements for all food manufacturing plants (50+) worldwide in Controls Engineering.

Key Accountabilities

80% of time - Impact Business Results:

• Identify, lead, execute and verify operational, productivity, process capability, and cost reduction opportunities across one focused business platforms.
• Align sponsors, business and stakeholders through project management framework.
• Participate in early management, technical feasibility and conceptual analysis processes to optimize decisions and partner to design, define and deliver competitively advantaged sustainable solutions.
• Optimize the current manufacturing technology infrastructure.
• Develop, deploy and train global minimum and current best practice engineering standards across platforms.
• Oversee portions of capital projects.
• Proactively and routinely audit targeted systems to sustain improvements.
• Understand and leverage manufacturing and financial metrics to optimize cost.
• Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Demonstrate GMI Business / Platforms Knowledge at least 1 platform.
• Demonstrate elementary knowledge of quality, safety and regulatory requirements

20% of time - iLead Technical Community

• Inspire zero loss belief and ability
• Mentor team members to develop technical mastery.
• Engage as a visible learner, doer and mentor
• Assist in enabling plant owners to effectively take care of assets to optimize Life Cycle Cost
• Expand communities of practice to include global capabilities and resources
• Develop mentorships programs for field engineers
• Provide technical support – problem solving and analytical skills.
• Provide ongoing visibility to all stakeholders leveraging process, technology and communication tool

Competencies/Behaviours required for job:

• Technical Excellence: Advanced Technical Leadership in at least one core area of expertise and technical depth in other areas. Applies advanced engineering or scientific principles and concepts in developing original solutions.
• Leads Innovation: Leverages broad and deep understanding of company strategies to innovate solutions which impact business goals.
• Deliver Outstanding Results: Champion Systems and Processes that leads the technical capability of the organization. Proactively prioritize, lead and deliver business results through own and others competitively advantaged services. Demonstrate commitment and accountability for results, performance, success and behaviors for self and group. Be comfortable with ambiguity. Make timely, high quality decisions using the right people and information.
• Energize and Develop People: broadens knowledge base and is proficient in several areas of expertise. Coach, teaches and motivates subordinates. Inspire a high level of commitment and performance in others.
• Collaboration: Builds effective relationships with people of all levels and organization to achieve business goals. Takes initiative to connect people outside the organization and promotes others to do the same.
• Integrity and Candor: Engenders Trust at all levels and demonstrates unquestionable integrity.

Additional Information:

• Candidate should have demonstrated engineering expertise preferably in FMCG industry
• This position reports to the Engineering Management group with the Supply Chain Division at GBS India. Hours of operation are 11 AM to 8 PM Mumbai time (Monday to Friday) with the ability to flex hours as the job demands
• In performing these accountabilities, the incumbent must develop and maintain an effective working relationship with General Mills International employees at all levels across the company locations
• The Job involves travel to worldwide plants on short term basis depending on business requirements.

• Minimum Degree Requirements: Bachelors
• Preferred Degree Requirements:    Masters
• Preferred Major Area of Study: B. Tech / M. Tech in Controls / Electronics / Electrical
• Required Professional Certifications: Globally accredited certifications in Controls
• Preferred Professional Certifications: Six Sigma and (or) PMP ( These certifications are not mandatory)
• Minimum years of related experience required: 10 years
• Preferred years of related experience: 10-12 years

Preferred Qualification & Skills

• Proven expertise in controls and information technology viz. Instrumentation, PLC, HMI, SCADA, MES, MOM, Electrical System Design, Enterprise / Plant Floor Integration and plant and enterprise networks viz. Ethernet, Devicenet, Profinet, and Controlnet etc.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Design, installation and commissioning.
• Systems expertise in Wonderware System Platform, Rockwell, Siemens
• Programming experience in .NET, Iron Python, Power Shell, XML, R, SQL

Must have skills:

• Mandatory hands-on capital project management experience in the Food or FMCG industry, including high-value and complex projects.