At Syngenta Crop Protection, we're pioneering solutions that safeguard global food security while championing sustainable agriculture. As a world market leader headquartered in Switzerland, we empower farmers with innovative crop protection technologies that defend against nature's toughest challenges. We unite advanced science with digital solutions to develop intelligent crop protection that maximizes yields while minimizing environmental impact. Join our mission of revolutionizing plant protection from seed to harvest.
At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta’s Hiring Team is seeking an Onsite Engineering Planner in Huddersfield, UK.
Role Overview
Responsible for planning, scoping, and delivering detailed work packages for routine maintenance and planned outages across electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, and civil disciplines. The role requires regular attendance at the job face to gather accurate, first‑hand information that underpins well‑defined and executable job scopes. Acting as the key link between engineering, operations, and contractors, the post holder ensures all activities are fully scoped, resourced ahead of scheduling, scheduled, and aligned with site safety and production requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Attend the job face across electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, and civil disciplines to gather first‑hand information and develop accurate, complete job scopes.
- Prepare detailed work packages including task sequences, resource plans, materials, drawings, isolation plans, risk assessments, and permit requirements.
- Build and maintain master plan for routine maintenance (3-month rolling schedule) and planned outages, identifying critical path activities and cross-functional dependencies.
- Coordinate with Asset Engineers, Operations, Project teams, and Contractors to integrate maintenance, cleanout, and commissioning activities through to execution.
- Manage CMMS data (SAP), maintaining accurate work orders, task lists, equipment histories, and resource requirements.
- Lead weekly scheduling meetings and report on schedule adherence, critical paths, and resource utilisation.
- Liaise with stores and procurement to ensure parts, consumables, and specialist tools are available ahead of scheduled work.
- Review job plans post‑execution, driving continuous improvement in planning quality and contributing to reliability programmes.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in maintenance planning or engineering within chemical manufacturing, petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, or a heavy process industry.
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