Maintenance Artisan at Syngenta


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Role purpose

  • To deliver proactive maintenance support across all engineering disciplines to meet production demands, through fault finding and diagnosis of failure; this can involve both the initial definition as well as the more usual implementation of plant modifications
  • To deliver planned routine preventative maintenance (RPM) activities to improve plant availability through structured monitoring, asset care, equipment maintenance, etc.
  • To identify plant equipment reliability issues, utilise route cause analysis techniques RCA, analyse SAP and production data in order to understand improvement options, implement solutions and carry out reviews usually within core trade
  • To undertake activities in compliance with site, company and regulatory requirements, e.g. HSE policy and standards etc.

Accountabilities

  • Carry out an engineering risk assessment (ERA) for each task performed, ensuring that all those involved in the task understand ERA and that they work within the ERA limits


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  • Effective and timely response to equipment failures. Carry out fault diagnosis and the initiation and implementation of solutions to meet production demands
  • Maintain plant availability and standards by carrying out planned engineering work such as equipment servicing, structured monitoring and PM scheduling as instructed by MAXIMO
  • Manage all changes to plant, equipment and process via the Management of Change (MOC) processes
  • Improve plant availability by identifying equipment reliability issues, determining and implementing appropriate improvement opportunities and reviewing the outcome
  • Use judgement and experience in order to deliver activities flexibly ensuring that priority tasks are delivered to meet plant demands
  • Carry out enabling activities required to deliver the engineering task.
  • Take responsibility for development of own skills and competencies in their core trade and ensure a good working knowledge of engineering equipment across the site. Ensure that personal knowledge is kept up to date as technologies change
  • To work flexibly to support production demands or to deliver shutdown requirements e.g. short notice, extended working days and hours as well as standby when required.
  • Take on the ownership for the co-ordination and the delivery of the whole task, while driving results from other Syngenta personnel and contractors involved in its delivery.

 

Qualifications

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

  • Understanding of HSE and Technical Engineering Standards
  • Detailed up to date knowledge of appropriate technical discipline
  • Fault finding and diagnosis techniques.


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Critical experience

  • Electrical, Mechanical or Instrumentation core trade
  • Chemical industry experience is beneficial but not essential.
  • In depth knowledge and experience working on PLC is advantageous, fault finding and diagnostics knowledge.

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

  • Strong commitment to site HSEQ processes and initiatives, including MOC
  • Analytical, systematic, thorough & a sharp thinker
  • Problem solving and diagnostic skills
  • Engage constructively in a team environment
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to liaise and co-ordinate with production staff
  • Ability to use CMMS software for work scheduling and data capturing.
  • Ability to interpret engineering drawings
  • Ability to learn and develop with changing equipment
  • Concern for standards
  • Tenacity
  • Flexibility

Critical leadership capabilities

  • Focuses energy on must-wins
  • Manages performance to ensure high standards
  • Develops self and others


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Critical Success Factors & key challenges

  • Maintain and improve plant and equipment
  • Carry out fault finding and diagnosis of failed equipment, identify practicable solutions, to effect repair following the site procedures and HSE standards.
  • Identify and initiate information system data updates, SAP, Plant records, drawings etc
  • Procure materials and equipment stock and non-stock
  • Share learnings, deliver training and validation in core trade.
  • Co-ordinate multi disciplines to deliver the whole task.

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