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Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.\nSite Engineering Manager - Taste & Wellbeing South Africa\nA Site Engineering Manager supporting our Taste & Wellbeing South Africa Plant Operations team in Johannesburg - Your future position?\nOur Tulisa site is a key manufacturing location for Taste & Wellbeing ingredients.\nWe are now hiring a Site Engineering Manager, reporting directly to the Site Director, and leading all plant engineering services to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations.\nSounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if you enjoy technical leadership, driving change, and enabling teams to perform at their very best every day.\nIn this exciting role, you will be responsible for -\nAchieve Operational Efficiency\nMaintenance leadership - Lead mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation maintenance to ensure safe and efficient equipment performance.\n\nMaintenance systems - Implement procedures, equipment improvements, predictive maintenance, and spare-parts management to strengthen reliability.\n\nCompliance management - Ensure full compliance with EHS rules, building codes, and engineering standards.\n\nEnsure Site Productivity\nFacilities management - Direct all facilities services to support Operations effectively.\n\nCapital projects - Oversee engineering projects from needs assessment and cost justification to credit requests, planning, and execution.\n\nProject execution - Deliver projects that improve cost, efficiency, yield, and quality across the manufacturing environment.\n\nVendor management - Manage third-party service contracts, define requirements, qualify vendors, and monitor performance.\n\nUse and Develop the Very Best of You\nTeam leadership - Lead multi-skilled engineering and maintenance teams, building a results-oriented and service-driven culture.\n\nBudget ownership - Manage multi-million-dollar projects, operating expenses, and capital budgets.\n\nMaintenance programs - Strengthen work-order systems and preventive maintenance programs to ensure long-term asset reliability.\n\nYou?\nAre you someone who wants to shape your world? 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Then come join us - and impact your world.\nYour professional profile includes:\nGMR 2.1 or GMR 2.7 legal appointment\n\nBachelor of Engineering (BEng) or Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSc Eng) in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering\n\nGCC Factories or GCC Manufacturing certification is an advantage.\n\n5+ years of experience in Manufacturing and Plant Engineering.\n\n5+ years of leadership and project management experience.\n\nStrong experience in CAPEX governance.\n\nSolid command of maintenance best practices, including preventive, predictive, and reliability-focused maintenance.\n\nExperience with Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies\n\nGood knowledge of EHS rules, engineering compliance, and statutory requirements.\n\nStrong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.\n\nExposure to cross-functional teams and projects.\n\nTraining experience with operators, shift leaders, and departmental managers.\n\nYour benefits\nExcellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.\nA creative team environment that will inspire you.\nAttractive compensation package.\nMedical aid.\nPerformance bonus.\nPension fund.\nAt Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.\nWe value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.\nEveryone - regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances - is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.\nEvery essence of you enriches our world. 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