Operational Technology Manager

The Bel Group is a major player in the food industry through portions of dairy, fruit and plant-based products, and one of the world leaders in branded cheeses. Its portfolio of differentiated and internationally recognized brands includes The Laughing Cow®, Kiri®, Babybel®, Boursin® Nurishh®, Pom'Potes® and GoGo squee

Z®, as well as some 30 local brands. Together, these brands helped the Group generate sales of €3.74 billion in 2024.

Do you want to join a company with strong brands that puts consumers and responsibility at the heart of the decision-making process? Then Bel is made for you!

Are you bold, pragmatic, and determined? Do you want to contribute to the transformation of an international agri-food company? Them come join us and measure the impact of your talent and energy in realizing an ambitious and sustainable company project!

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The Operational Technology Manager is responsible for overseeing the implementation of operational technologies, ensuring data availability, and optimizing industrial IT infrastructure. It also involves contributing to technical expertise groups, managing business applications deployment, and providing training on new technologies.

• Ensure the deployment and local operation of the EDGE, which serves as the middle layer for data management and deployment of various industrial applications.
• Oversee connectivity works, including migration and update of shopfloor equipment, and physical connections.
• Deploy, update, and contextualize data model standards for all machines, maintaining the availability of industrial data to upper layers and inter-asset communications.
• Supervise and optimize the industrial IT infrastructure (ILAN), managing networks, servers, control, and monitoring systems, ensuring network security, availability, and performance, and adhering to group technical standards and cybersecurity requirements in coordination with the IT Site manager.
• Deploy international standards (OPC UA, PACK ML, ISA) and make necessary program modifications to optimize overall plant performance, employing innovative technologies such as PLC machine, HMI, AI and machine learning, Vision, Wireless security and control, AGV, COBOT.
• Participate in technical expertise groups (GET) led by corporate teams, contribute to the deployment of digital streams, and manage deployment of business applications from the EDGE Manager, including the creation of specific applications.
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation for the plant, provide training and knowledge transfer locally on new technologies or deployed modifications, functionally manage site automation engineers, and facilitate community engagement in collaboration with the technical manager.
• Provide first-level automation training to autonomous teams and update operational KPIs within their domain.

• Engineer-level education or equivalent in acquired skills, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering/automation.
• 3 years of successful experience in managing industrial projects and automation packages, preferably in the agri-food sector.
• Recognized expertise in designing automation and robotic systems, including PLC, variable speed drives, sensors, EDGE, robots, cobots, industrial safety systems, and industrial information systems such as SCADA and MES.

• Cross-functional leadership and management
• High level of autonomy, proactivity, and initiative-taking
• Rigorous and methodical, with a strong written communication culture
• Collaborative teamwork with multiple functional areas (IS/IT, Industrial Performance, Purchasing, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, etc.)
• Interest in technological innovation
• Technical English proficiency

• Industrial protocols: OPC-UA (Advanced level: Address Spaces, Companion Specifications, etc.), Profinet, Ethernet/IP, IO-Link, AS-Interface
• Automation:
  Rockwell (Control Logix RS, Studio 5000), SIEMENS (S7 Family, TIA Portal), Schneider (Pac Drive, Modicon)
• SCADAs & HMI:
  WinCC, Factory Talk (View, Linux)
• Industrial standards:
  PackML, Industrial safety standards (e.g., NF EN…