Operator in Chemical Bulk Production (m/f/d)

About the job

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to face these threats and ensure sufficient safe, nutritious, and affordable food for all – by promoting the minimisation of land use and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection ensures the protection of plants from sowing to harvest. From sowing to harvest, crops must be protected from weeds, insects, and diseases as well as from droughts, floods, heat, and cold.
The headquarters of Syngenta Crop Protection is located in Switzerland.

Health Promotion Switzerland recognises Syngenta’s commitment to the health and well-being of employees and awards all Swiss sites with the label "Friendly Work Space". At Syngenta, the health and well-being of employees are key to the company’s success.

Job Description

As an employee in chemical bulk production, you monitor and control the on-site plants and via process control systems to fulfil the production order qualitatively and quantitatively. Through your work, you contribute to ensuring high safety standards, compliance, high product quality, and efficient production.

Your tasks:

• Responsibility for the safe operation of production plants
• Optimisation of processes and implementation of corrective measures
• Sampling and analysis of IPC and final samples using standard laboratory equipment
• Conducting inspection rounds
• Assisting with revisions and undertaking manual tasks
• Execution of safety, maintenance, and inspection orders
• Keeping various logs
• Independent start-up and shutdown of production plants
• Compliance with all safety regulations and work instructions

Qualifications

• Degree as a chemical or pharmaceutical technologist or equivalent diploma with experience in chemical and pharmaceutical production
• Independent execution of required tasks at a professional level as an experienced production employee
• Independent performance of sampling and standard analyses (e.g. LC, GC, titration, pH value) in the laboratory area
• Ability to execute and verify work procedures and manufacturing specifications using complex equipment, techniques, and methods
• Ability to maintain an overview of ongoing production and upcoming tasks even under stress
• Willingness to work shifts (6/4 shift model)
• Interest in joining the plant fire brigade (IFRB)
• Fluent German skills in spoken and written form. Basic knowledge of English is desirable

Additional Information

• With your work, you can make an important contribution to people’s food security -> #bringingplantpotentialtolife
• We offer an open and pleasant working atmosphere
• We respect each other and work together on an equal footing
• Exclusive discounts and benefits for employees

Do you feel addressed? We look forward to your complete online application including CV, cover letter, motivation letter, diplomas and certificates.

Syngenta is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.