Maintenance Engineer - (M/F/N)

Company Description

The Syngenta Group, a global leader in agricultural technology and innovation, employs 60,000 people in more than 100 countries to transform agriculture through tailored solutions for farmers, society, and our planet. Our diversified portfolio includes seeds, crop protection products, nutritional products, agronomic solutions, and digital services, all designed to help farmers produce healthy food, feed, fiber, and fuel while preserving natural resources and protecting the environment. Our mission is to address critical challenges such as climate change and food security through sustainable practices and cutting-edge solutions, while preserving the planet's resources.

Syngenta Crop Protection, the largest unit of the Syngenta Group, is a leader in sustainable agricultural solutions, offering innovative products to keep crops healthy while minimizing environmental impact from planting to harvest.

Syngenta Monthey is a production site for active substances, with 900 employees. Its activities are mainly related to plant protection and, to a lesser extent, the Professional Products sector. Discover the activities, history, and challenges of the Monthey site via the YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZhG3x3Nz8

Syngenta has been ranked as one of the best employers by Science magazine and has received the "Friendly Work Space" label for all its Swiss sites.

Job Description

Job Purpose / Reason for the Position:

• The maintenance engineer ensures the availability, reliability, and safety of the facilities for a production sector. He/she must ensure resource efficiency and control maintenance costs.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with legal inspections on facilities, respecting Swiss legal requirements. Monitor and demonstrate the required and achieved compliance levels.
• Responsible for developing the maintenance strategy for the sector, aligned with the site needs, the concerned production area, and products.
• Establish and manage the maintenance budget for their area of responsibility.
• Analyze problems and drive continuous improvement of maintenance in their sector.
• Prepare maintenance budgets for approval within areas of responsibility, with clear justification criteria for expenditure levels in line with Asset and Maintenance strategy.
• Develop renovation plans for facilities, manage associated credit requests, and oversee work acceptance.
• Improve the reliability of facilities in their sector.
• Lead the maintenance, intervention, and project team of the sector.
• If necessary, replace a maintenance engineer colleague from another sector if workload requires.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Fluent English.
• Good interpersonal skills, natural leadership, comfortable with cross-functional management.
• Knowledge of Swiss regulations and their application in process industries (e.g., OPAM).
• Engineering and maintenance experience in a process industry (minimum 3 years).
• Strong technical knowledge in several fields applied in our industry.
• Knowledge of process risk analyses.
• Budget management experience.
• Comfortable with human contacts and a good team spirit.
• Negotiation, influence, and motivation skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity.
• Strong customer-oriented mindset.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly.

Additional Information

Benefits offered to Syngenta employees:

• 40-hour work week with flextime and cumulative days.
• Syngenta private pension fund.
• Family initiatives.
• Bonus based on individual performance and achievement of Syngenta objectives.
• Syngenta Campus: company restaurant, free parking, on-site doctor.

Are you interested? Then apply online, attaching all relevant documents (cover letter, CV, diploma, certificates) - reference 18069120

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