As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

As the maintenance professional for a defined plant or area, own and deliver the maintenance strategy. This includes responsibility for HS&E compliance, integrity management, reliability improvement, budget management, provision of functional expertise as well as support to capital and revenue project programmes.

• Responsible for monitoring and delivery of all engineering compliance requirements for the plant.
• Act as Duty Holder in relation to relevant legislative requirements for your area including management of Change Assessor.
• Monitor and manage maintenance costs, identify where / when action is needed to meet targets and initiate improvement actions.
• Develop and review maintenance strategies for your plant in line with production, supply chain and product strategies.
• Through analysis of OEE and CMMS data, identify and implement reliability improvement programmes to ensure equipment performance meets maintenance strategy targets.
• Provide functional expertise and technical support to maintenance and operations groups to maximise plant availability to meet business needs.
• Develop and deliver sustenance project plans and provide support, as engineering lead, to deliver capital programme in your area.
• Take overall leadership of major planned maintenance outage activities for your area.

• Needs to be at least Degree educated.
• Experience of dealing with contractors.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Current best practice maintenance tools and techniques knowledge.
• Capable of fault finding and problem solving.
• SAP (CMMS) interrogation and reporting of maintenance activities experience.
• Budget setting, monitoring and reporting experience.

Whilst this role offers a competitive base pay, at Syngenta we value total reward which includes the benefits we offer to our employees. We support well-being, offering comprehensive benefits including flexible working, generous holiday entitlement, discretionary bonus scheme, competitive pension scheme, private medical insurance and employee assistance programme.

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