Now Hiring! Manager Machinery Expertise

Geismar, LA - Freeport, TX - Hybrid

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Where the chemistry happens…

At BASF, we create chemistry through the power of connected minds. As the world’s leading chemical company, we help our customers in nearly every industry meet the current and future needs of society through science and innovation. The Global Engineering team leverages our technical know-how and expertise to deliver solutions that enable safe, sustainable, reliable, and cost-competitive production.

We are seeking a professional like you to join our team and be responsible for setting the strategy, developing solutions, and delivering impactful results for the North American organization across all BUs, Sites and Functions to provide best in class performance and reliability of machinery assets. You will lead a team focused on the development, validation and implementation of best practices to enable improved machinery reliability at manufacturing sites, making sure the region and Americas is driving and supporting best practices to maximize potential and performance.

As a Manager Machinery Expertise, You Create Chemistry By...

• Developing and implementing a resource strategy to deliver and support value adding services across the region, ensure highly skilled resources are available and aligned with the regional and global strategy to support growing demand improve reliability.

• Collaborating with regional and global colleagues at all levels to develop and sustain strong networks and information channels, motivating and lead regional and global teams to deliver innovative solutions to improve machinery performance in support of business unit objectives.

• Ensuring best practices and key learnings are developed, shared, and integrated in the region, including participation on various global working groups, monitoring regional performance.

• Leading a team of professionals focused on specific categories as well as the diagnostics and designing of new assets to effectively collaborate with supporting disciplines and business unit colleagues to deliver value added services ensuring performance over the complete asset life cycle.

• Ensuring the sustainability of fundamental tools (example: RCFA, Bad Actors, FMEA, Equipment Care Strategies, etc.) and leveraging continuous improvement and technology to ensure skills and capabilities are enabling overall business success.

• Leading and supporting key critical topics that impact BASF machinery performance. You will work with Digitalization teams to identify new technologies and innovation to support continuous improvement in machinery performance and implement service offerings to drive the improvements to the manufacturing sites and collaborate closely with the Asset Monitoring Reliability Center.

If you...

• Possess education in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering and have experience in Engineering or Maintenance in a Petrochemical or Refining industry.

• Have excellent interpersonal skills and experience working on teams with diverse cultural backgrounds.

• Fully understand machinery theory and applications.

• Have understanding of capital project, procurement, financial, acquisition and integration processes, and engineering tools which will be a valued asset.

• Display your fundamentally open attitude to new things.

Then...

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At BASF you get more than just compensation, Medical & Dental. Our total offer includes a wide range of elements you need to be your best in every stage of your life. That’s what we call you@BASF. Our Periodic Table of Benefits includes some additional perks below for starters…

• Flexible Work Arrangements whenever possible

• Retirement Benefits

• Maternity/Paternity Leave, Infertility & Adoption reimbursement

• Mentoring & Development Programs

• Employee Discounts

• Pet insurance

• Matching Donations to your favorite cause

• Access to our BASF Wine Cellar and much more!

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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, citizenship, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, disability status, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.