Job description
We're looking for a seasoned Utilities Production Manager to lead our dynamic team. In this role, you'll optimize our utility operations, ensuring they remain safe, efficient, and compliant. As the driving force behind our operational targets, you'll focus on minimizing outages and maximizing cost-effectiveness.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage production operations across utility assets to meet supply plans and quality standards.
- Develop and implement compliance with regulations and safety standards
- Optimize costs and implement efficiency improvements
- Develop and maintain operational procedures
- Manage third-party utility contracts and government energy schemes
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.
- Extensive knowledge and broad experience of Utilities including Municipal & Abstracted Water, Electricity, Nitrogen, Natural Gas, Compressed Air and Steam.
- Further level of understanding of Biological waste water & chemical / physical effluent treatment.
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry or related technical field
- Demonstrated experience in leadership & management in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience with CHP operations or steam generation is preferred
Site Details
At the Huddersfield Manufacturing Centre we make important Crop Protection products that are used in over 120 countries worldwide. These products help our growers to meet the ever-increasing demand for food, feed and fuel, and our talented & dedicated teams make this possible.
The Huddersfield team is proactive, driven, and friendly, with a strong emphasis on diversity, equality and inclusion. We work cross functionally to get the job done – come and join us!
What we offer
- An extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance.
- Up to 31.5 days annual holiday.
- 37.5 working hours per week Mon – Fri
- 3.5 rota days off over Christmas + hours bank of 41 hours to use throughout the year for occasional time off.
- Flexible working – the role allows for flexibility of hours and hybrid working is open to individual requests where it fits with business needs.
- We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.
- A strong learning culture and a wide range of training and development opportunities, including support for externally recognized professional qualifications.
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

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