Manufacturing Digitalization

**Do you an expert on how to use IT to innovate and digitalise manufacturing processes? Do you want to be part of our important Operational Excellence project? Are you the IoT expert wanting to make an impact, broaden your scope and do you love to travel?**

Our European IT team, based in The Netherlands as well as in Germany, is lead by our IT Director Europe and is driving a strategy of enabling and innovating our business. We are an international and entrepreneurial team of over 40 members managing the exponential growth of our company. The IT team works in close collaboration with the local IT teams in the Business Units of Europe. All team members contribute to driving the strategic decisions in the areas of Core Applications, Manufacturing Digitalization, Infrastructure, Data Management, Security, Portfolio & Project management.

Due to the expansion of our company, our operational excellence and ESG ambition we are setting up a completely new team on Manufacturing Digitalization and searching for an

**Manufacturing Digitalization / IoT Expert**

For ensuring that best practice exchanged you develop and maintain the European Refresco community on IoT technologies.

Within Refresco no day is the same. You will be exposed to different levels of seniority, different functions, all the Business Units of Refresco as well as to our external co-sourcing party. You foster a strong morale and team spirit with a problem solving and hands on mindset. We expect you to act and operate in an agile way and to establish a strong internal network.

**You have knowledge on**:

- Automation technology and production machinery
- IOT Gateways
- OPC Server technologies
- MES and SCADA system
- Protocols and interfaces of automatization system an information system
- Edge Devices and sensors
- Beverage and filling processes

You can drive system changes & improvements:

- by analysing business / process requirements, offering solutions or suggestions to standardize;
- by performing system configuration on OPC Servers and doing relevant administration;
- by transferring relevant knowledge to the European Refresco IoT community

**You will contribute to projects as a**
- Process Analyst
- System configurator
- Application owner
- Steerco member in our manufacturing Steerco
- as member of first level support team during go-live and hyper care.

**About you**
- at least a Master degree in Computer Science, automation, electronic engineering;
- at least 5 years of experience in industrial automation, data analytics, or IoT technologies;
- you have strong technical knowledge of IoT Technologies, sensors, and other digital tools;
- you need to be fluent in English and an extra European language is perfect;
- you have strong problem-solving skills and ability to think critically;
- you have Ability to work independently and as part of a team;
- knowledge and experience in the manufacturing industry is a very nice to have.

**Our Core Competencies are**
- Vision
- Group Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Result Orientation
- Team Work
- CFoaching People
- Behavioural Flexibility

**About Refresco**
Refresco is a very dynamic organization. Slightly over 155 people work at the head office in Rotterdam, versus more than 14,500 employees elsewhere in the world. Confidence in the strength of good, local teams is a hallmark of Refresco's approach to the business. The teams make decisions in close collaboration with her the central team but have a large sense of ownership chosing the best approach for their local market.
The desire to continue growing is reflected across every layer of the organization. This translates into an extremely enterprising group of people who are constantly setting new things in motion and really want to make an impact. A focus on personal growth and development is a priority at Refresco. Refresco is a dynamic, ever growing and changing business which shows fast and strong organic growth, further fuelled by an active and successful strategy on Mergers & Aqcuisitions.
Refresco Group is the world’s largest independent bottler.

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**Recruitment process**

In case of any questions with regards to the position, you may reach out to Yasimin Harput (Corporate Recruiter Group/HQ)

Mobile: +31622910406