Project Engineer

Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world, with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 22 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 22 countries, and employs approximately 4,000 people.

Shares of the parent company Davide Campari - Milano N.V. are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. Campari Group is today the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

Company:              Campari Mexico

Job Title:                Project Engineer

Job Location:        Arandas

Report to:             Regional Project Engineer

Mission

• Manage important and relevant engineering projects at Country level from technical specifications to installation and ramp-up (end to end process).
• Track the CAPEX budget for assigned projects within the plant/region.
• Support assigned plants and work operationally with local Manufacturing & Engineering organizations to take care, in a professional way, of company assets through their entire Life Cycle.
• Develop technical solutions to maximize production or reduce operational cost within the plants assigned through continuous improvement and bottom-up approach.

Main accountabilities and tasks

• Support the Regional Project Engineer 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 and transform ideas to execution projects that add or improve key deliverables on:
  • Yield (honey/juice extraction, fermentation, and distillation process)
  • New equipment (OEE, set-up time)
  • Energy & water efficiency
  • Additional capacity
• Track the capital expenditure and related projects along the year (for assigned sites/projects) to avoid delays and late result delivery.
• Drive the preparation of technical specification for new equipment or important modifications.
• Support the supplier selection criteria with a technical perspective preparing technical comparison of their quotations.
• Directly manage important projects with high capex involved.
  • Supporting Plant capacity growth.
  • Main equipment substitution or extraordinary refurbishment.
  • Transfer or in-sourcing of production lines.
• 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, such as:
    • Autonomous
    • Break-down prevention
    • Time based.
    • Condition based.
    • Preventive
    • Predictive
• Help, through training-on-the-job, the implementation of standard Engineering KPI, processes, tools, methods, and procedures:
  • Problem Solving methodologies (e.g. PDCA, A3,SIPOC …)
  • CQV (Commissioning, Qualification, Validation)
  • O.E.E.
• Identify best practices and share them with Regional Engineering Team.

Skills & Requirements

• Skills & Competencies to manage capex budget and analyze maintenance expenses reports.
• Professionality to manage large projects.
• Stake-holders management:
• Ability to manage people through leadership, coaching and training.
• Knowledge and practical application of tools and techniques for:
  • Problem Solving 
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Energy Management.
  • TPM
• Knowledge of KPIs like OEE, MTBF, Yield.
• Skills & Competencies for effective communication and motivation.
• Knowledge of safety directives, laws and risk analysis methods applied to machines and equipment.

Languages:

Fluent in Spanish and English.

Key relationships:

Internal: Plant Leads, Quality and HSE, Regional and Global Engineering Team

External: suppliers, governmental institutions.

Experience and Education:

• Experience of at least 8-10 years in factories with leading positions in Production and/or Plant Engineering and/or Maintenance.
• Engineering university degree
• Preference for experience in Food & Beverage

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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