Sr. Engineer Americas

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General Description of the Role

• Support the Regional Engineering Director to collect from assigned factories and distilleries bottom-up requests to build the capex budget and strategic plan (3 years). Proposals should cover needs to reach annual and strategic plan targets, to match production growth, to assure business continuity.

• Help assigned factories and distilleries to generate ideas and transfer best practices to deliver productivity on:

  • «equipment» (OEE, set-up time)

  • «energy»

• Track the capital expenditure and related projects along the year (for assigned sites) to avoid delays and late result delivery.

• Drive the preparation of technical specification for new equipment or important modifications.

• Support the supplier selection with a technical perspective preparing technical comparison of their quotations.

Mission/Objectives

The Snr Project Engineering will manage the Capex Projects activities and assist with CI projects managing staff/contractors to ensure all aspects of the projects are completed in a quality manner while driving continuous improvement in the operation.

Key Responsibilities and Activities

• Track the capital expenditure and related projects along the year (for assigned sites) to avoid delays and late result delivery.

• Drive the preparation of technical specification for new equipment or important modifications.

• Support the supplier selection with a technical perspective preparing technical comparison of their quotations.

• Directly manage important projects with high capex involved (> 200k USD):

  • plant capacity growth.

  • main equipment substitution or extraordinary refurbishment.

  • transfer or in-sourcing of production lines

  • Technology transfer amongst the plants

• Track maintenance costs of assigned plants.

• Support Plant Engineering & Maintenance teams to:

  • technically specify new equipment or modifications to existing ones.

  • install, commission, test and ramp-up new or modified equipment.

  • de-commission or transfer equipment.

  • maintain manufacturing lines, cellars, utilities, and buildings to assure production continuity.

  • implement appropriate approaches, tools, and methods to maintain assets:

    • autonomous

    • on break-down

    • time based

    • condition based

    • preventive

    • predictive

• Help, through training-on-the-job, the implementation of standard Engineering KPIs, processes, tools, methods, and procedures:

  • Problem Solving methodologies (e.g., PDCA, A3, 8D, …)

  • Process-FMECAs

  • CQV (Commissioning, Qualification, Validation)

  • O.E.E.

• Identify best practices and share them with Regional Engineering Director and counterparts

Key Relationships

Internal:

• Plant Directors, Q and HSE plant managers, Regional and Global Engineering Team

External: 

• Vendors/Contractors/Government officials

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

Education

• BA/BS degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Chemical Engineering

Experience

• Experience of at least 5 years in factories with leading positions in Project Management and/or Plant Engineering and/or Maintenance.

• Engineering university degree

• Preference for experience in Food & Beverage Industries

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Skills & Competencies to manage capex budget and analyze maintenance expenses reports.

• Professionality to manage large projects.

• Knowledge to organize, manage, train, and execute maintenance operations with different approaches:

  • autonomous

  • emergency

  • time based

  • condition based

  • preventive

  • predictive

• Ability to manage people in different countries through leadership, coaching and training.

• Knowledge and practical application of tools and techniques for:

  • Problem Solving.

  • TPM and Lean Manufacturing.

  • Process-FMEA.

  • Energy Management.

• Knowledge of KPIs like OEE, MTBF, MTTR.

• Skills & Competencies for effective communication and motivation.

• Knowledge of safety directives, laws and risk analysis methods applied to machines and equipment

• Project Management tools expertise based on the PMI PMBoK methodologies

Languages:

Fluent in English and

Professional Working Proficiency in Spanish is a plus

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Travel 30% of time

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

At Campari Group we believe in building more value together, thus we see diversity in all forms as a source of enrichment. Our employment policies and practices ensure that we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment without regard to any individual’s race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or characteristics or expression, political affiliation or activity, age, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Note to applicants:

Your application will be assessed based on your abilities, expertise, general knowledge and experience, not because of any confidential, proprietary or trade secret information you may possess. You must not disclose to Campari Group any such information. In the event that you are asked a question that cannot be answered without disclosure of any confidential, proprietary or trade secret information (including from a current or prior employer or their vendors or customers), you must decline to answer the question.

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