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Engineering and Maintenance Manager (m/w/d)

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As an Engineering and Maintenance Manager (m/w/d), you will directly report to our Site E&M Manager and you will join our Engineering & Maintenance Division in Vernier. You will be in charge of plan and manage the inspection and maintenance (including sustain and improve) of facilities, related infrastructure, electrical and mechanical equipment, and production machinery to ensure that the site runs operations without undesired changes and at capacity level. In this role you are the important partner of a production manager and are accountable for the Service level agreement achievement.

In this exciting role you will :

• Strategy design and execution
  • Balance the capacity and competences of the group team with the requirements of the production needs
  • Define the engineering and maintenance annual targets within the group in partnership with the production manager and leads and monitors their achievements through the Service level agreement
• Function management
  • Lead a team of specialists and planning supervisors working on different assignments within engineering and maintenance field
  • Deliver the best engineering and maintenance service within the group in close partnership with the production manager through maintenance planning and cluster engineering projects
  • Apply preventive maintenance plans and maintenance support to improve availability of plant equipment and prevent business disruption
  • Define budgets based on maintenance requirements i.e. resources, materials, duration,...
  • Conduct audits/inspections to ensure compliance of installations, equipment and users with EHS and QM policies
  • Identify, recommend and deploy improvements whether to correct non-compliant situations or increase productivity
  • Manage spare parts inventory to increase stock and dispose of obsolete materials
  • Ensure closed communication between group team members and production team, for gatekeeping, performance monitoring, transparent decision process and planning efficiency
  • Maintain compliance of all assets with applicable legal or company standards, and harmonization of standards within the E&M departmen
  • Support the local Operations business plan and strategy execution production capacity, schedule of critical maintenance activities, changes in equipment, spare parts inventory,...
  • Provide input to the other E&M group managers and to the site E&M manager related to global or regional Capex projects to anticipate impact on local activities and resources
  • Work with E&M CoE functions to ensure analysis and implementation of global strategies, plans or best practices.
• People management
  • Oversee the execution of annual human resources processes for the related group E&M team and validate related results
  • Work with local Operations and regional/global E&M management teams and HR Business Partner in developing a local talent pipeline for the function
  • Guide the development and promotion of talents within and outside the function
  • Evaluate external resource’s needs and manage external resources.
    

You ? Are you someone who wants to grow your world? Who excels being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us – and improve your world. Your success profile includes:

• University degree in Engineering or related discipline
• Plant Engineering or Maintenance certification
• Overall work experience of 10 years in manufacturing or plant operations, either in the function of engineering or maintenance
• Minimum 5 years of people management experience. Experience of management of manager appreciated
• Experience working with diverse cultures
• Proficiency in asset maintenance and engineering for building, process installation and utilities, from design stage to hand-over
• Knowledge in process/chemical assets
• Confirmed expertise of partner management and communication
• Knowledge of project management
• Knowledge of TPM, Indicators, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and project controlling tools
• Knowledge of process mapping and design
• Knowledge of EHS rules and guidelines
• Knowledge of financial concepts (e.g. OPEX, CAPEX) and tools (e.g. SAP)
• Take responsibility and don't accept the status quo
• Customer-focused with a sense of production urgency
• Manage complexity
• Challenge with a continuous improvement behavior, following the site’s CI culture
• Cultivate innovation and standardize: systematically seek solutions that can be duplicated in other situations.

For safety and hygiene reasons, please note that wearing a beard is not allowed in production roles

Due to its activities, Givaudan is subject to the regulations of the OFAC (Office Fédéral de l'Aviation Civile). Please note that later in the recruitment process you will be asked to provide a criminal record.

Our Benefits :

• Healthcare support
• Paid Time Off and family leave
• Retirement plan
• Sport and leisure clubs
• Company shop
• Staff restaurant

Are you interested in this exciting challenge? We are looking forward to receiving your application! Please make sure you enclose your CV, Cover Letter, Diplomas and Work Certificates.

#LI-Onsite
At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity.
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer. Remote working: On-site