Regional Maintenance

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Regional Maintenance & Utilities Manager
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Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature.
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Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside.
Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
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**Overall Mission**
- As a proactive change agent, this role is pivotal in leading the transformation towards best-in-class utilities and maintenance processes.
Regional Utilities and Maintenance Manager will oversee a multi-site, multi-technology environment, driving optimum performance in utilities and maintenance to deliver value improvements and sustainability impacts.
- This includes ensuring availability, efficiency, safety, compliance, and cost-effectiveness, in alignment with the organization's sustainability goals.
- This position reports to the _BP Eng AMERICAS F&B & Global F&B Coord._ and dotted line to the _Global Maintenance Lead_.
**Key Contacts**
- Frequent interaction with Site Maintenance & Utilities teams/managers, COE teams, COE Operations Business Partners, Maintenance GSE, COE OT, COE CAPEX, COE CMX, CI business partners, Site controllers, Site Heads, Quality and Food Safety, Sustainability, Health and Safety and Operations.
**Main Responsibilities**

**Site OPS Governance with Global Support**
- Manage Maturity assessment for Maintenance and Utilities (Sustainability Chapter) and associated recommendations
- Support the development and delivery **of annual value case**initiatives and opportunities
- Develop **regional roadmap**, aligned with global strategy and site/business requirements
- Support and follow-up with **energy and water best practices, good maintenance practices, share learnings**with sites
- Provide site updates to pipeline project database and support annual utilities and maintenance budget process
- Provide training to site team in best practices, standards and available solutions/tools, leverage CoE Academy
- Support the performance management of OEE
- Support and track Standard deployment (EHS, Quality, Sustainability )
- Conduct internal and external benchmarks for Utilities and Maintenance
- Participate to the Strategy Deployment process for respective scope

**Sustainability**
- Attend quarterly regional sustainable OPS meeting (w/Regional OPS heads, Sust, IM&S, Controlling)
- Support Sustainable Operations and Givaudan Sustainability ambitions
- Provide support during annual site KPI target validation process and measurement capabilities

**Onsite support for initiatives**
- Provide support to project managers on projects that impact utility and maintenance tools, systems and processes (new, existing upgrades) and contribute to digitalisation of operations
- Support site master plan, CO2 master plans, as needed
- Support STMS, gap, CIMA, EHS, Quality and Utilities site assessments.
- Support sites to develop Long Term Asset Replacement plan for utilities and maintenance
- Ad-hoc participation to complex problem solving workshop (efficiency, debottlenecking, Recurring Quality issue, Crisis)

**Academic Background**
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent certification

**Languages**
- Fluent Spanish
- Fluent English

**Professional experience**:

- At least 10 years in operations, maintenance, utilities systems, lean & TPM environment
- Sound knowledge of food and chemical processing industry
- Solid record in change management within diverse cultures and organization maturity, multi-discipline specialists (internal and external)
- Change management proficiency
- Certified Energy Manager and/or Certified Energy Auditor a plus
- Expertise in Project Management, PMP license a plus

**Technical skills**

**Expertise**
- Proficiency in world class manufacturing concepts (LEAN, TPM, WCM) and utilities systems
- Knowledge in manufacturing processes
- Green Belt (advantage)
- SAP (proficiency)

**Our Benefits**
- Company car.
- Annual bonus.
- Health & medical plan coverage.
- Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions.
- International working environment.
- Quality of Life program.
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- 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.
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