Asset Mechanical Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for an Asset Mechanical Engineer to join our team at the heart of our Grangemouth Manufacturing operations. In this role you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the Manufacturing Plant runs with unwavering safety, peak reliability, and optimal cost-efficiency. Your expertise will drive continuous improvement, balancing cutting-edge performance with stringent safety standards and fiscal responsibility. Responsibilities include:

• Owning and delivering the maintenance strategy for our chemical manufacturing plant, ensuring seamless operations and compliance with industry standards.
• Being the technical lead for mechanical issues on plant, providing support to the maintenance team for equipment maintenance or breakdowns.
• Leading continous improvement initiatives on plant to improve reliability, root cause analysis, defect elimination and reduce plant downtime.
• Outage / Turnaround Manager for asset annual shutdown.
• Understanding asset condition and identifying where capital investment is required to ensure continued safe operation – sustenance report ownership.
• Being the Capital Project Asset Engineering representative.
• Engineering maintenance budget management, analyse spend and implement cost improvement initiatives.

Syngenta Crop Protection is a leader in agricultural innovation, bringing breakthrough technologies and solutions that enable farmers to grow productively and sustainably. We offer a leading portfolio of crop protection solutions for plant and soil health, as well as digital solutions that transform the decision-making capabilities of farmers. Our 17,900 employees serve to advance agriculture in more than 90 countries around the world. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and is part of the Syngenta Group. 

Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture. 

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent field.
• Extensive experience in Chemical, Oil & Gas, Production related industries.
• Knowledge and experience with mechanical equipment such as pumps, vessels, piping
• Familiarity with relevant industry legislation and standards.
• Experience with Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), preferably SAP Plant Maintenance (PM)
• Chartered Engineer status or actively pursuing certification

Site Details 

Syngenta's Grangemouth Manufacturing Centre is one of our two award-winning manufacturing sites in the UK. The site was founded in 1919 and today employs nearly 400 skilled people in a variety of roles that include manufacturing, engineering, scientific and production support. Our goal is to operate “safely, reliably and cost effectively” and to help growers protect their crops and increase their yield. 

At Syngenta Grangemouth we have four plants dedicated to active ingredient (AI) manufacture, and one finished product formulation and packaging plant with the most recent facility opening in May 2010. 

What we offer 

• Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance.  
• Up to 31.5 days annual holiday. 
• We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.    
• Learning culture and wide range of training options. 

Syngenta has been ranked as a top 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Journal.  

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Learn more about our D&I initiatives here: https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion