Technical Manager

What we offer

At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.

Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!

Find out more about the many benefits we offer:

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RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensures Safety and occupational health as well as protection of the environment for all employees and contractors within the production unit.
• Global Project Manager for Capital projects, responsible for engineering and technical realisation, project costs, compliance to budget, project schedule, regulatory compliance and permitting, construction, installation, commissioning and hand-over to Operations.
• Complete the scientific and technical process fundamentals (including chemistry, process technology, property data, material data, process analytics, etc.) of the unit to be planned.
• Ensures Planning, coordination and monitoring of maintenance activities.
• Management and coordination of internal/external maintenance and technical service departments and providers.
• Planning, controlling and meeting the maintenance budget, including cost of external service providers.
• Monitoring and optimization of energy consumptions.
• Planning and execution of concepts for the optimization of the plant.
• Setup and administration of the documentation of the plant's equipment.
• Ensures further development of the management systems in terms of technical aspects.
• Contributes to general aspects of optimizations in the plant like process, capacity, reliability and availability of the plant.Manage a portfolio of contracts and negotiate service level agreements. Will also plan, coordinate and supervise activities relating to major contracts.
• Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.
   
• Manage the knowledge management system with guidance from senior colleagues. May involve responsibility for the development or operation of the system.
   
• Develop procedures and interprets and applies policy for area of expertise to achieve specified outputs, or advise the wider business on application of policy, then monitor implementation of those procedures within the organization.
   
• Analyze and evaluate the feasibility and relevance of proposed complex products and services - and develop and amend as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues. May also be responsible for supervising activities performed by a product development or specialist team.
   
• Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.

REQUIREMENTS

• University degree in Chemical or Mechanical engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in the field.
• French and English fluency, German an asset.
• Basic experience of coordinating the work of others.
   
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to negotiate independently while providing guidance and training to others on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.
   
• Acts independently to apply comprehensive understanding of the business environment and objectives developing solutions while providing guidance and training to others.
   
• Acts as the organization's authority and established expert on understanding chemical process and equipment.
   
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing risks in a production process.
   
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
   
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
   
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.
   
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently on costing, budgeting and finance tasks while providing guidance and training to others.
   
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.
   
• Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
   
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on achieving full compliance with applicable rules and regulations in management and/or operations.
   
• Acts independently using comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to conduct research and analyze data while guiding and training others on how to develop a comprehensive understanding of customer and market conditions that enables maximum return on investments.
   
• Applies comprehensive knowledge and skills to independently manage and apply safe systems of work while providing guidance and training to others.

Your Application
 

To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html. 

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