Technical Project Manager

Job 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.

Health Promotion Switzerland recognizes Syngenta’s commitment to the health and well-being of its employees and awards the “Friendly Work Space” label to all its Swiss sites. At Syngenta, employee health and well-being are key to the company.

At Syngenta Safety comes first. We attach high importance to HSE.

We are currently seeking a Technical Project Manager (m/w/d) for our multipurpose production site in Muttenz who is responsible for planning and executing investment projects (cost, schedule, quality, functionality). Project Management is defined as “The planning, monitoring and control of all aspects of a project and the motivation of all those involved in it to achieve the project objectives on time and to the specified cost, quality, safety and performance.”

The goal of the role is to deliver part of the Syngenta capital investment program by:

• Providing leadership in engineering capital projects or program of projects; ensuring the timely implementation of new or improved assets consistent with business requirements and within agreed cost and safety parameters
• Providing expert advice and direction to others by the timely application of technical and/or project management professionalism at key points in the project process
• Through close liaison with technical resources, principal engineers, and key stakeholders, ensure that capital projects use fit‑for‑purpose engineering solutions to meet Syngenta HSE and business requirements
• Position requiring strong field presence capabilities to effectively monitor and supervise project execution on‑site
• Role based in Muttenz, with focus on projects in northern Switzerland, but also occasionally regional support, depending on the regional workload

• Act as Project Manager or Project Engineer for one or several capital projects, mainly in Muttenz but also partially in Kaisten. Giving occasionally support to other regional sites can be also included
• Full project lifecycle ownership: delivering successful project implementation from initiation to start‑up for one major or several minor/medium projects simultaneously
• Shaping the project scope through translating business needs into options, managing trade‑offs and selecting best fit option to meet competing objectives. Understanding interdependencies between technology, operations and business
• Contributing to timely applications for engineering capital proposals
• Participating actively in project related Process Risk Assessments (PRA) and safety initiatives, and ensuring implementation and adherence to PRA process
• Tracking costs and progress of all construction activities to ensure project delivery meets challenging time constraints
• Designing and specifying equipment together with other team members
• Identifying, specifying and monitoring the implementation of appropriate standards for engineering design, procurement and construction to ensure compliance with company policy, local regulations and fit‑for‑purpose assets
• Applying latest project management processes, controls, change & risk management techniques to ensure effective & efficient deliveries
• Coordinating all technical meetings
• Acting as internal quality control check, defining Critical Success Factors, KPIs, disseminating them to involved parties throughout the life cycle
• Planning and monitoring the mechanical and asset commissioning phases
• Closing and documenting the project, handing over to the site fully operational assets

• Completed degree in technical field, ideally process engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering
  , or a similar discipline
• Project Management Professionalism certification or…