Automation Project Engineer

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure 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 an Automation Project Engineer (m/f/d) for our multipurpose production site in Muttenz
, where engineer is responsible for planning and coordinating automation resources within a Capex project team organization. This person is also ensuring the link with the site engineering team, and the alignment with technical standards and production/customer requirements.

This includes:

• Leading a part of one or more engineering capital projects; this could be a technical responsibility across a whole project or a cross-functional responsibility for a part or phase of a project, thus ensuring the timely implementation of new or improved assets consistent with business requirements and within cost and safety parameters set by a project manager.
• Managing one or more minor engineering capital projects for automation infrastructure projects
• Providing automation technical leadership for projects

• Working with a project manager to shape project scope. This often requires holding ambiguity before a project scope is being finalized in a Terms of Reference
• Estimating, executing and tracking costs and physical progress to ensure project delivery meets challenging time constraints and within established cost and safety parameters
• Coordinating the external resources that form a project team
• Identifying, specifying and monitoring the implementation of appropriate standards for engineering for design, procurement and construction to ensure compliance with company policy, local regulations and assets that are fit for purpose
• Producing an engineering definition package, fully describing the technical, process and operational requirements of the asset to be built and subsequently developing a detailed design which meets project success criteria

• Planning of automation activities according project plan expectation milestones and scope
• Identifying and managing automation resources tasks plan
• Managing daily an automation programmers' team. (Documenting, developing software, ensuring quality, solving issues, monitoring weekly progress, reviewing with Process & Production team)
• Supporting the project manager to update the global project plan, reviewing weekly progress, workload, priorities and reviewing the scope changes
• Creating Software Design Specification (SDS) for CM, ME and Phases according site standards, user requirements (Process & Production) and Process Risk Analysis outputs (PRA)
• Organizing and managing FAT activities (Planning, documenting readiness & quality, resourcing, listing to-dos, validating)
• Supporting commissioning team (Planning, troubleshooting, improving/optimizing, changing) and production team for Recipe creation. Managing handover to Site engineering team & Production team
• Being responsible for Software design, testing, FAT Software + Hardware and SAT
• Supporting start-up of process control and safety system

• Technical degree in Automation Engineering
• At least 5 years of experience in industrial automation, preferably in the chemical/pharmaceutical industry and with support of Delta
  
  V systems.
• Experience in building a new Delta
  
  V Class Library:
  Unit, Phase, EQM, Control Module Level
• Several years of experience with IEC 61131 (Programming languages for programmable controllers), IEC 61512 (Batch Management) and Control…