Senior Project Engineer at Syngenta Group

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, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success.

Deliver capital projects as part of the Syngenta capital investment program by doing the following:

• Leading capital projects as a project manager or project engineer; this could be as the project manager or technical responsibility across a whole project or a cross-functional responsibility for a part or phase of a project, thus ensuring the timely implementation of new or improved assets consistent with business requirements and within cost and safety parameters.
• Offering expert advice and guidance at crucial stages of the project process through the timely application of technical and project management expertise.

• Directly manage projects by agreeing on, setting, and achieving challenging success criteria.
• Develop and implement project execution strategies with a project team primarily consisting of third parties, including Syngenta staff, design and construction contractors, and equipment suppliers.
• Collaborate with project owners to define the project scope, often navigating significant ambiguity until a term of reference is established.
• Define, estimate, deliver, track, and report on safety, costs, and physical progress of individual capital projects.
• Prepare timely and comprehensive applications for engineering capital approvals and project completion reports.
• Ensure complete integration of commissioning and startup activities with the design and construction phases of projects.
• Works within a defined execution strategy.
• Uses technical knowledge to contribute to improvement activities.
• Clarifies requirements and develops solutions.
• Involves the right people to obtain needed information and delivers work by collaborating with others.

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Understands what constitutes a project change and follows the correct change assessment processes.
• Manages engineering work execution following local safety procedures.
• Trained in construction safety management and able to apply Syngenta CoPs and Process Safety Management guidelines.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to influence colleagues at all levels, and operates in a matrix organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or construction management.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified preferred but not required.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering and/or manufacturing experience.
• Relevant project management, engineering and manufacturing experience.
• Large understanding of manufacturing issues and experience in transformation projects.

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, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits. 

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. 
Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI 

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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