Industrial Excellence Engineer

About the role

Syensqo is all about chemistry. We’re not just referring to chemical reactions here, but also to the magic that occurs when the brightest minds get to work together. This is where our true strength lies. In you. In your future colleagues and in all your differences. And of course, in your ideas to improve lives while preserving our planet’s beauty for the generations to come. We are looking for: A Manufacturing Excellence Engineer who will participate in projects within the CM Excellence Group Globally in the field of Manufacturing and Industrial Excellence. The position will report to the Transformation Project Director within the composite materials GBU.

Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way we live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, we bring great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of our customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates. Our solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and health care applications. Our innovation power enables us to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity.

Responsibilities

• Support several manufacturing sites performing their excellence improvement projects by participating in an assessment of their industrial improvement potential covering End to End Transformation of CM Sites
• Supporting / challenging industrial management of these sites to define challenging targets and objectives and achieve the expected results
• Deploying within those sites the change management methodology and toolbox, training and supporting local Change Agents
• Ensuring the exchanges of best practices and lessons learned between sites, GBUs and between Manufacturing & Energy Excellence Experts
• Support deployment of improvement plans in various areas of manufacturing (production, quality, reliability) with strong components of change management from the preparation until delivery of sustainable results in collaboration with change teams in the manufacturing sites
• Transfer of change management expertise
• Inspires Mindset of continuous improvement, and establish the sustainability of improvement
• Tracking of change project results (in cooperation with ME corporate team and change leaders on the site)
• Deploys and improves the Production Management System
• Training and coaching using ME methodologies and toolbox
• Regular alignment with the ME Leaders in the GBUs

Qualifications

• Strong technical and process expertise with experience in production (process and/or manufacturing) for instance in plastics, chemicals or oil & gas industries
• Familiar with demanding (GMP, automotive,) quality standards and their impact on product lifecycle
• Education: B.S. Industrial Engineering or similar field
• Experience: 5 years + in an Industrial Engineering Role
• Familiar with the industrial environment, results‑oriented and culture of continuous improvement
• Leadership personality and leadership skills
• Coaching, influencing and motivating capabilities
• Highly flexible and mobile
• Used to collaborating in a global multicultural environment
• Language: English

Benefits

• Opportunity to join an exciting growth company
• Exciting career opportunities in a fast‑moving environment
• Extensive training package
• Full range of benefits as expected of a successful company
• 16 or more weeks of maternity/paternity and co‑parenting leave (according to local regulations)