Head of Civil and Infrastructure

About the role

The Head of Civil & Infrastructure Center of Expertise defines and drives the technical scope of multiple large scale and complex projects, End-to-End and Global across the organization. The role

manages a portfolio of 10 to 15 projects per year, each with a budget between 2 and 50 MCHF (average project budget 15 MCHF). The level of stakeholders to negotiate and defend cases are at L3 and L4.

The role is also responsible for bringing expertise for the BC standards. Together with the Global Senior Engineer BC Standards and a CSD community he/she will give content, evaluate, discuss and deploy the BC standards that are related to the domain of expertise across all clusters and locations.

To deliver world-class design, this role will also require managing GBS engineering resources and external suppliers to deliver daily. This will be done through training sessions, frequent follow-up meetings and direct steering for the direct reports.

Key responsibilities include

The Head of Civil & Infrastructure Center of Expertise collaborates with Plant Managers and their reports, Project Engineering Execution Directors, Project Managers, Capex Planning Directors, etc.

He/she is in an expert position towards the engineering execution teams as well for standards and best practices in maintenance, process and project managerial skills.

• Leading and building the department of civil engineering and infrastructure and as such is steering and managing the people working for that department

• Design, communicate, and implement an operational plan for initiating complex and multiple projects; find solutions for operational problems, minimize delays.  Identify, develop and gather resources to make the basic engineering happen for these projects.

• Driving corporate projects in the pre-IP phase and assisting the engineering execution and other departments for the post-IP phase.

• Driving footprint- and masterplan studies from the engineering part and the basic design for principal processes; in particular all civil and utilities related topics.

• Supports the BC organization in the development of technical standards according to the business strategy. He/ she ensures the standards are known and understood.

• Sets the technical specifications for all main equipment and production processes.

• Assist in generating concepts for the BC long term strategy for the factory of the future in terms of flows and manufacturing processes

• Collaborate with Technical Sourcing for strategic purchasing and develop long term partnership and collaboration with the preferred suppliers of the main process-equipment

• Collaborates with the other Regional Experts to improve capacity, efficiency, safety, sustainability and quality for all BC process installations and factories.

Scope:

Corporate, hence all BC factories, offices, warehouses, academies,...

First priority: Civil and Infrastructure (incl smart buildings & utilities

About you

• Master degree in civil engineering (construction and utilities) 

• Must be fluent in English (spoken and written) advanced French, German and/or other languages is an advantage
• Interest in food processing area particularly hygienic design  is a must
• Affinity & interest in Industry 4.0 developments (e.g. MES, Smart Tech, Data mining, Google tools, …)
• Background in TPM, Lean, Six Sigma, …  is a plus

• 15+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment, process industry

• 10+ years experience in managing different technical departments and has experienced working in a matrix organization, leading initiatives across 10+ locations and influencing stakeholders remotely.

• Thorough knowledge of product-, people-, waste- and packaging-flows in factories
• Detailed knowledge of the BC process
• Detailed knowledge chocolate equipment
• Background in equipment construction and welding technologies
• Background in process automation
• Basic accounting & budgeting skills (business cases, feasibility studies)

• Leadership experience to lead a department of multiple direct reports (senior engineers)
• Leadership experience (situational leadership) to get cooperation from multiple experts in project organizations (Matrix)
• Lead via influencing the senior BC stakeholders (Directors and VP’s) to decisions  and approvals
• Ability to build and set-up organizations (as well project teams as own organization)
• Make it happen mentality, ability to mobilize people
• Solution oriented negotiator
• Ability to create partnership with Suppliers
• Achieving goals by influencing and not by forcing
• Craftsmanship must be highly valued & respected
• You are a confident and assertive facilitator and presenter, able to influence and motivate stakeholders from multiple levels in an organization
• Resilient and drive to lead cultural change

Travel requirements:

• • 10 - 50% depending on the needs and the open projects. High flexibility is expected

Others:

• • Relation building and contacts with suppliers and colleagues over different regions expect high availability / flexibility (time zones)
  • Home office, @ BC site and /or GBS