Engineering and Maintenance Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Join us as our next Engineering and Maintenance Manager reporting to our Site Operation Director. You will determine and direct all our plant engineering and maintenance services for our Cincinnati, Ohio manufacturing facility. The main impact of this role will be to implement necessary changes support manufacturing organizational changes and strategies, and implement capital improvements for building utility, manufacturing processes and associated equipment.

This role will be based in Cincinnati, OH.

In this exciting role you will:

Achieve operational efficiency:

• Direct internal maintenance activities, including mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and spare parts management with the goal of safely achieving required manufacturing equipment efficiencies.

• Manage (develop and implement) procedures and equipment changes for maintenance effectiveness, predictive maintenance programs, EHS compliance, and building/other code compliance.

Ensure site productivity:

• Direct all facilities services to provide appropriate support to operations groups.

• Provide oversight for project engineering related to facility capital projects. This includes evaluating needs, assessing options, defining costs/justifications, preparing credit requests/project plans, and implementing projects to improve the manufacturing environment (focus on costs, efficiencies, yields, and quality).

• Manage third-party service contracts by developing requirements, qualifying vendors, and providing service monitoring improvements.

Develop the very best of you:

• Manage multi-accomplished teams (engineering/maintenance), enhancing a service-minded culture in a food and beverage production environment.

• Hone your experience managing multimillion-dollar manufacturing projects, operating expenses and capital budgeting, and work order/preventative maintenance programs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science (or MS) degree in Engineering

• 5+ years experience in Manufacturing and Plant Engineering & Maintenance

• 5+ years of leadership and project management experience

• 5+ years experience in leading Manufacturing Maintenance and Engineering teams

• Have lean manufacturing experience, TPM, Six Sigma, continuous improvement processes/methodologies

• Knowledge of CMMS - Computerized Maintenance Management System

Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge of SAP

What We Can Offer You:

• Healthcare Plan:

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• High matching 401k plan

• Vacation days

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.

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