Manufacturing Excellence Lead - Rhine Valley (m/f/d)

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers face these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, and affordable food for all - by promoting the minimization of land use and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection ensures the protection of plants from sowing to harvest. From sowing to harvest, crops must be protected from weeds, insects, and diseases as well as from droughts, floods, heat, and cold.

The headquarters of Syngenta Crop Protection is located in Switzerland.

Job Description

• Member of the management team at the Muttenz site
• Leading local tactics for Continuous Improvement
• Responsible for the implementation of the Syngenta Production System at the sites in the Rhine Valley
• Building competencies and a Continuous Improvement community at the sites in the Rhine Valley
• Coaching practitioners and teams to develop their knowledge and skills in handling Continuous Improvement methods
• Ambassador and advocate of Continuous Improvement within the Swiss Manufacturing Hub
• Maintaining the Target Operating Model for Continuous Improvement through succession planning and governance
• Responsible for local training content on Continuous Improvement and Manufacturing Excellence to ensure harmonization with global systems

Purpose of the Role

• Building and supporting the Continuous Improvement community at Syngenta production sites in the Rhine Valley
• Supporting and maintaining the implementation of the Syngenta Production System in collaboration with the Global Manufacturing Excellence Team
• Supporting and promoting initiatives to improve the efficiency of business processes

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in positions focused on Continuous Improvement
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as the ability to influence people and decisions 
• Experience in indirect personnel management
• Implementation of projects in Continuous Improvement or similar project activities within a large organization, combined with the ability to prioritize, plan, organize, and monitor multiple simultaneous activities to meet ambitious schedules and influence teams for which they have no direct leadership responsibility
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or equivalent, Black Belt certification is an advantage
• Proven success in applying project and program management as well as Continuous Improvement methods
• Experience in change management and/or operations management.
• Experience in chemical production is an advantage
• Strong ability to support, coach, and train others in implementing changes
• Fluent in German and English. Additional languages are an advantage

Additional Information

• Valuable work in an international environment
• Flexible working arrangements, open culture, diverse workforce
• Contribution to food security -> #bringingplantpotentialtolife
• Open, pleasant working atmosphere
• Mutual respect and collaboration at eye level
• Exclusive employee discounts and benefits

Do you feel addressed? We look forward to your complete online application including CV, cover letter, diplomas, motivation letter, and certificates.

Syngenta is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.