Electrical Engineer Lead

Company Description
As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all - while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.
Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.
Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.
Job Description

• Professionally and systematically guide the refinement of the preventive maintenance function on electrical systems to achieve optimization.
• Ensure the application of NFPA/NEC regulatory standards and Syngenta codes of practice within the St. Gabriel site engineering/ maintenance organization.
• Manage the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover of capital projects where appointed Lead Engineer ensuring full integration of these phases and implementing effective scope control, risk management, cost, and progress reporting.
• Set success criteria for the C&E department and formulate project execution strategies to ensure that the project team (e.g. the design and construction contractors and equipment suppliers) meet those criteria.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with site personnel to ensure their commitment to maintenance and project objectives, to anticipate and resolve technical difficulties and to minimize any disruptive effect of maintenance/ projects on production.
• Develop and refine a site level sustainable reliability program that covers electrical, instrument, and analyzer equipment and processes. Develop and report KPIs to manage progress.

This is a Onsite position and located in St. Gabriel, LA.
Qualifications
Required:

• Attention to detail, continuous learning, applied learning
• Teamwork
• Effective written, oral communication and interpersonal communication skills

Preferred:

• Member of appropriate professional body (e.g. IEEE) preferred
• Professional Engineering license/ Electrical not required, but considered a plus

Additional Information
What We Offer:

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits

Syngenta has been ranked as a?top employer?by Science Journal.
Learn more about our?team?and our?mission here: 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.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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