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.

To ensure delivery of maintenance activities and goals to meet business objectives.

To drive medium- and long-term improvements for the area in HSE, maintenance and cost performance.

To develop area maintenance resources to meet current and future HSE and plant engineering requirements.

• Leadership and technical support to maintenance engineers/teams and operations groups to maximise plant availability to meet business needs.
• To define and deliver an Area HSE Engineering Improvement Programme.
• To develop and deliver strategic area Sustenance plans.
• To deliver area maintenance costs to budget and to analyse and deliver efficient optimisation of maintenance costs.
• Review and optimise maintenance strategies for your area in line with production, supply chain and product strategies. Implement best practice maintenance techniques to improve reliability efficiency.
• Engineering availability - analysis of OEE and CMMS data, identify and implement reliability improvement programmes to ensure equipment performance meets business needs and plant maintenance strategy targets.
• Development of maintenance team’s capability to meet future business and industry needs. Delivering technical and personal development plans for the area.
• Manufacturing Excellence - leading or active member on defined priorities involving engineering.  

• Highly experienced maintenance professional, typically with a minimum five years’ experience.
• Leadership and line management experience.
• In-depth knowledge of maintenance systems in a chemical processing environment.
• Professional qualification at degree level.

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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