Technical Services Manager

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Technical Services Manager M/F/D
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.**Technical Services Manager**
- As a Technical Services Manager, you will lead the Engineering and Maintenance function in a small/medium manufacturing site in
- **Caronno Pertusella** with the objective to achieve maximum plant reliability in response to operational activity needs for the local unit.**Reporting to the Site Operations Head, you will**:

- **Strategy design and execution**
- Provide input to the local Operations business plan and related goals with regards to e.g. engineering projects, production capacity, important maintenance activities, changes in equipment, spare parts inventory, etc.
- Define Site Engineering annual targets and objectives based on functional strategy and leads and monitor their achievement.
- **Function management**
- Lead a team of Maintenance & Engineering technicians, and contractors, working on different assignments within engineering and maintenance field.
- Work with Global and Regional Engineering functions to ensure analysis, planning and implementation of global strategies, plans or best practices.
- Establish site master plans to capture all Capex, engineering and maintenance plans and lead their execution to address internal customer requirements in the short, mid and long term.
- Provide input to global or regional Capex plans to anticipate impact on local activities and resources.
- Implement local Capex projects (when approved).
- Manage all routine engineering and maintenance activities, track progress against plan(s) and implement corrective actions in case of deviation.
- Deliver the best engineering and maintenance service to clients through maintenance work, local projects and coordinate capital investments on site.
- Maintain compliance of all assets with applicable legal or company standards, and harmonization of standards within the departments.
- Implement Group Engineering programs, guidelines and directives and organize regular training to ensure adherence to these and other guidelines/directives (e.g. EHS).
- Maintain contact to local authorities.
- Propose budgets and levels of service for engineering and maintenance activities and implement these within approved limit(s).
- **People management**
- Oversee the execution of annual human resources processes for the local Engineering and Maintenance teams and validate related results.
- Work with local Operations and regional/global E&M management teams and HR Business Partner(s) in developing a local talent pipeline for the function.
- Guide the development and promotion of talents within and outside the function.

**You?**
- **Academic Background**
- University degree in Engineering or related discipline.
- Plant Engineering oe Maintenance certification.
- **Professional Experience**
- Overall work experience of 4 to 7 years in manufacturing or plant operations, preferably in chemical, pharmaceutical or food industries, including exposure to factory engineering and maintenance strategy and operational maintenance of production equipment.
- 1 to 2 years of experience in people management.
- Experience working with diverse cultures.
- **Technical Skills**
- Proficiency in industrialization and engineering projects including building, process installation and utilities, from design stage to hand-over.
- Knowledge of project management.
- Knowledge of TPM, KPI, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and project controlling tools.
- Fluency in both English and Italian languages.

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.
- Every essence of you enriches our world.
- Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
- Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.