Reliability Technician (M/F/X)

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Reliability Technician (M/F/X)

Posted 29.05.2026APPLY NOW

Reliability Technician (M/F/X)

Posted 29.05.2026APPLY NOW

Company Description

As a global leader in the plant health market, we help farmers protect crops and thus ensure safe, nutritious, and accessible food for all – while minimising land use and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection protects plants from sowing to harvest: from the moment the seed is planted until harvest, crops must be protected from weeds, insects, and diseases, as well as drought and flooding, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection headquarters is located in Switzerland.

Syngenta Monthey is a production site for active substances, employing 900 staff. 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

Job Description

We are recruiting a Reliability Technician to manage the reliability activity of a production sector by analysing malfunctions and production losses, defining and implementing the equipment maintenance strategy, and ensuring the monitoring of our technical databases (CMMS, SAP).

You will be required to work transversally across the entire Monthey site, in close collaboration with the Production, Maintenance, Engineering, and Projects teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyse malfunctions and occasional production losses (field analysis, fault trees, process conditions)
• Propose and study corrective and improvement actions in consultation with the relevant functions
• Conduct equipment criticality analyses and define the appropriate maintenance strategy (preventive, predictive, condition-based)
• Formalise the needs for stocking critical parts of the sector
• Analyse reliability data and maintenance costs across the sector to propose improvement actions
• Propose improvements to methodologies and tools within the reliability processes and contribute to their deployment on site
• Participate in the development and improvement of standards with the methods team
• Support maintenance, engineering, and production teams in applying standards and investigating failures
• Actively participate in training maintenance and production personnel

Qualifications

Required

• Federal Certificate of Competence (CFC) as Chemical and Pharmaceutical Production Technologist, Polymer Technician, or equivalent in a technical field
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, industrial maintenance, or reliability is an asset; Federal Maintenance Agent Certificate appreciated
• Expertise in chemical engineering equipment: reactors, filters, dryers, pumps (centrifugal, volumetric, vacuum)
• Mastery of reliability analysis methods (cause trees, FMEA) and maintenance strategies
• Experience with maintenance management tools (CMMS, SAP) and ability to analyse process data
• Knowledge of continuous improvement approaches and optimisation of industrial performance
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Fluent French (spoken and written); B2 level English desired
• Good command of IT tools (MS Office, CMMS)

Additional Information

Benefits Offered to Syngenta Employees:

• Syngenta private pension fund
• Family initiatives
• Bonus based on individual performance and achievement of Syngenta objectives
• Syngenta Campus: Company restaurant, free parking
• Career development prospects towards Maintenance Engineer roles or cross-functional positions at other Syngenta sites

Syngenta is committed to Diversity. We encourage all applications regardless of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.

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