Description
People-oriented process expert with coaching qualities, hands-on, and responsible for managing the team and the production process.
As a team leader and lead operator, you are the first point of contact within the team and monitor the cohesion between installations and utilities.
Job requirements
- Meticulous work attitude with an eye for safety and quality.
- Tendency to take the lead, transfer knowledge, and make decisions.
- Completed technical education at MBO-4 level (AOT, process technology, VAPRO B or similar).
- Experience in a managerial role within a process engineering environment (e.g. chemical, energy, utilities or shipping).
- Willingness to pursue further training.
- Analytical ability and problem-solving insight.
- Team-oriented and proactive work attitude.
Tasks
As a team leader and lead operator, you oversee the entire production process and ensure the safe and reliable operation of installations and utilities.
- Ensuring that production assets (24 furnaces and 7 transformers) and utilities (energy supply, demineralized water, water purification, desulfurization, and environmental monitoring) function properly and are optimally coordinated.
- Starting, managing, and stopping processes according to schedule and ensuring safety in and around the installation.
- Intervening in malfunctions, independently resolving minor (process) malfunctions, and assisting with more complex malfunctions.
- Assisting with the commissioning of new installations.
- Together with the shift supervisor, assess production volume, partly based on energy prices, and translate this into a daily schedule for the team.
- Performing first-line maintenance.
- Monitoring safety, quality, and environmental standards.
- Coaching and guiding fellow operators in their development.
- Working in a team with four colleagues within a five-shift system.
- After an accelerated but thorough onboarding process, get to know the process, the factory, and the team well, and propose improvements and implement them together.
Working conditions
- Independent and responsible position within a technically challenging production environment.
- Working in a close-knit team with short lines of communication and a collegial atmosphere.
- Work in a five-shift system.
- 29% shift allowance and reimbursements.
- 24 vacation days and a fixed year-end bonus.
- Travel allowance.
- Internal and external training opportunities.
Description of the organization
The independent ESD-SIC, founded in 1973, is a global leader in the field of silicon carbide, with a focus on sustainability, the environment, energy supply, safety, and supply chain collaboration.
The factory is one of the largest silicon carbide factories in the world and has more than one hundred dedicated professionals working on continuity and innovation.
ESD-SIC continuously invests in training, education, and development and offers diverse career paths and advancement opportunities.
You will be working in the Process Monitoring department, part of Operations, which is responsible for the entire production process. Operations consists of:
- Kiln company: builds the kilns and excavates them again after the process.
- Si processing: processes the material from the ovens into finished and residual products and prepares them for shipment.
- Process monitoring: monitors and controls the entire production process and the associated utilities.
- Laboratory: guarantees the quality of raw materials, residues, finished products, and water quality.