Operational Technology & Automation Project Manager

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Operational Technology & Automation Project Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. 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 Mexico, work with our caring colleagues from our 6 innovative research, creation, and production centres to help us grow with purpose. Every day, your talent, your personality, and your determination 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.

Operational Technology & Automation Project Manager - Americas, your future role?

You will lead Operational Technology (OT) projects for Givaudan businesses in the Americas region. In collaboration with our global team (which includes IT, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing & EHS) you will perform the technology assessment of our sites in the region and provide operational technology expertise to deploy Givaudan Operational Technology standards, governance models and OT processes. You will report into the Global Centre of Excellence OT Lead to align projects aimed at enhancing industrial efficiency, driving digital transformation across the region, and developing a network of experienced OT champions.

You will work on-site in our facilities located at Pedro Escobedo, Queretaro. We will require that you reside in the city or its vicinity.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Assess Givaudan Americas sites' Operational Technology landscape to propose improvement and new ideas following our business strategy.
• Deploy Givaudan's IT/OT Standards, governance model and processes.
• Work with vendors and internal Subject Matter Experts to ensure the right automation solutions are deployed with the appropriate integration.
• Define areas of improvement by steering the knowledge transfer between internal and external resources.
• Support site local team technology migration and integration with Givaudan ecosystem.
• Ensure transfer of best practices from local organization to Global Engineering team.
• Partner with Engineering internal functions and IM&S to ensure standards are applied to new projects.
• Be a technical expert to create new ways of working to support Operations and IM&S.
• Coach project/Local teams.

You?

Your professional profile requires:

• Electronics or Automation Engineering Degree or equivalent, with grade or postgraduate studies in Automation.
• At least 7 years of experience in Operational Technology or Automation at industrial companies, with experience in the chemical or consumer products ingredients industries.
• Broad knowledge of state-of-the-art and best practice in automation systems.
• Broad automation project management knowledge regarding user specifications definition, vendor management, project execution, commissioning and qualification.
• Experience managing PLCs (Allen Bradley or Siemens), HMI software suite (Rockwell or Siemens), and DCS Systems (Emerson).
• Functional certifications: LEAN/TPM/Six Sigma, GAMP.
• Fluent in English and Spanish, both oral and written.

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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