Platform Integration Specialist

Location: 

Lodz, PL, 90-530

At Barry Callebaut, we are on a journey to transform the cocoa and chocolate industry. As the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, our actions truly shape the future of our industry. We are a business-to-business company, serving the entire food sector, from the cocoa bean to the finest chocolate product. We are a company with a purpose, we believe in doing well by doing good and reinvesting in the communities we operate. We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and our goal is to shape a sustainable cocoa and chocolate future. We are headquartered in Zurich, and have more than 12,000 passionate Employees working in more than 40 countries worldwide. We are very proud of who we are and what we do. And of course, we are always looking for talented people to help us have a positive impact on our industry and beyond!

About the role:

As a member of the Process Excellence team, you are designing and leading the technology’s platforms to create synergy between sites. These technology platforms result in significant improvements in driving Process manufacturing efficiency.
 

Key responsibilities:

  • Take the lead to facilitate knowhow and knowledge sharing within a group of process engineers in all the regions
  • Own (set,improve,maintain) the global process operating standard in the technology platform field of expertise
  • Mobilize the team members from all sites ensuring that best practices are captured, standards are defined and learning material is developed
  • Ensure technology platform cohesion, making each member included
  • Manage resources allocation per technology platform topics and bridges with other technology’s platforms.
  • Tracks the progress of the technology platform plan and outcomes and reports out to Process Excellence leaders and cross functional teams. 
  • Close relationships with Process Excellence to build the technology platform outcomes roll out plan
  • Own the administration of the digital platform (Process Portal, Poka, others) as a single source of truth for roll out. Easy access for all employees. 
  • Guide the technology platform members along the way in the realization of the community objectives and priorities
  • Secure the visibility of the technology platform successes and activities to the internal BC stakeholders (site managers, stream leaders,...)
  • Responsability to make global process standard didactic, understandable for roll out
  • Taking the lead on some working group within the technology platform
  • Responsibility to follow and report technology platform kpi : activity level and value delivery point of views
  • You lead and organize technology platform virtual/physical event
  • Contribute to elevate the process knowledge of the technology platform members
  • Ensure that members help each other on a daily basis, ad-hoc
  • Guide the technology platform applying CI Way of working
  • Lead her/his technology platform roadmap
  • Maintain the benchmark file of the technology platform
  • Process control related, act as a problem-solving support for the network
     

About you:

  • You have a Master degree in Chemical Engineering, Bioscience-engineering, Chemistry or Physics with a first professional experience (3-5 years) in food production;
  • Background as process engineer controller is a plus
  • Knowledge of standard software (excel, word, powerpoint, google drive);
  • Lean manufacturing and 6 sigmas education is a plus
  • Experience in the food or process industry is preferred, manufacturing experience a must. 
  • You have a broad interest in sharing experience and set standards 
  • You have interest to set working methodologies 
  • You are fluent in English, knowledge of other languages is advantage as you need to communicate in an international context
  • You have continuous improvement skills : method and mindset 
  • You are able to scale a best practice into a standard as well as describing operational guidelines.
  • You can focus on your own responsibilities, while being able to work in multi-disciplinary teams (R&D, Continuous improvement, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain) 
  • You can communicate effectively to different stakeholders (from shop floor till management) 
  • You can act as a leader in a cross functional function 
  • You can act as a leader to set priorities
  • Expert himself of the community scope is not mandatory 
  • Good communication skills (English is a must) 
  • Coaching attitude in a cross functional mode 
  • Leader or leader in becoming 
  • Forward thinking, solution oriented and entrepreneur 
  • Results driven 
  • Shopfloor oriented
     

 

We offer:

  • Employment on a regular basis in the sweetest company in the world.
  • Annual bonus based on your work results.
  • Lunch card to be used for groceries and restaurants.
  • Private medical care in Lux Med (basic package fully financed by BC).
  • Fit Profit sports card co-financed by BC.
  • PPE: we care about your future, and we save money for your retirement.
  • Cafeteria Program as a part of Social Fund.
  • Group life insurance.
  • Hybrid working model: min. 8 days in the office a month.
  • As part of our work-life balance culture, we can start work between 7 am and 10 am.
  • Free consultation with a lawyer once a quarter.
  • Chocolate! Yes, surprising but we have chocolate in the office, for Christmas, BC’s Birthday, and many other occasions during the year.
  • And if chocolate is still not enough, you can join one of our theme clubs, where together with other employees we develop our passions and interests.
  • Daily delivery of fresh fruits and veggies to the office.
  • You can purchase our sweet products with a special discount.
  • Relax zone in the office and plenty of options to choose from: PlayStation 5, football table, pool table, Ping-Pong, library, table games, and massage chairs.
  • Sport @work? Sure! We have treadmills and indoor exercise bikes with a laptop station.
  • We like to party as much as we like chocolate! We have integration budgets we can use for team events.
  • Forever Chocolate and Event Team: you can join them and have a real influence on social life in BC and CSR activities.

At Barry Callebaut, we are committed to Diversity & Inclusion. United by our strong values, we thrive on the diversity of who we are, where we come from, what we’ve experienced and how we think. We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where people can truly be themselves, grow to their full potential and feel they belong. #oneBC - Diverse People, Sustainable Growth.

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