As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these 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.

At Syngenta, we are working to build the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture that provides leading seeds and crop protection innovations to enhance the prosperity of farmers. To support this challenge, we are seeking a Pilot Plant Lead to join our team in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

Role purpose

• Lead formulation technicians to provide engineering technical support utilizing both existing and novel manufacturing technologies to maximize quality, capacity, and efficiency metrics during scale-up and after the launch, of formulated products.
• Assist the formulation engineers by staging equipment & raw materials and executing pilot plant formulation trials.

Accountabilities  

• Strict adherence to HSE protocols and all corporate policies and processes.
• Provide leadership and overall expertise to pilot plant activities.
• Collaboratively schedules and executes formulation processing experiments.
• Document experiments and results, develop reports, and propose follow-up actions to engineers.
• Maintain procedures, equipment, and facilities in the pilot plant.
• Ensure assistance to the formulation engineers to safely deliver the scale-up of formulation processes from lab to full-scale manufacturing.      
• Be highly knowledgeable with the required formulation engineering techniques and equipment through on-the-job training and internal courses where appropriate.                                             
• Proactively proposes and implements improvements to group operations i.e., safety, efficiency, and productivity initiatives. May be a functional representative on a departmental operations team.
• Ability to maximize productivity and meet targets and deadlines.
• Adaptable to changes in project deliverables and embraces new ways of working.
• Contributes to identifying and implementing department needs to complete projects in a timely manner.                                                                   
• Able to work effectively in cross-functional teams, and across multiple functions.
• Actively engages in project team discussions to share knowledge.                                                                                                                                        

Skills

• Requires developed proficiency through detailed/intense job-related training and/or considerable on-the-job experience.
• Should be well organized and have strong attention to detail.
• Ability to progress multiple project tasks.
• Ability to lead and apply technical knowledge to progress activities.

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent, or proven technical experience in formulation processing development or formulation manufacturing.  
• Must be able to become forklift certified.
• Adherence to continuous improvement principles and process risk assessments.
• Proven ability to manage multiple requests from different stakeholders.  
• Good understanding of the end-to-end processes for product development, complex formulation processing scale-up, and lifecycle management.

What We Offer:

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, and Corporate Discounts, among other benefits

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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