Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.
The Head of Asset Management and Environmental defines and implements Lonza’s Asset Management Program (LAMP) including related digitalization & automation activities as well as ESG concepts in collaboration with global and site stakeholders based on evaluation of Lonza’s engineering and maintenance processes, system controls, effectiveness, sustainability, etc. and benchmarking to industry-standards/best-practices. She/he is accountable for the global evaluation, execution and continuous improvement of compliant, effective, efficient and state of the art E&M standards at Lonza. The purpose of this role is to achieve a high reliability of engineering and maintenance disciplines across Lonza’s network at competitive cost.
The Head of Asset Management and Environmental defines and rolls out the overall environmental and sustainability program from engineering across the different streams such as green technologies in growth projects, carbon foot print optimization within operations, regional workshops to identify potential CO, waste and water reductions, align all business units and stakeholders on the site sustainability road map, including the governance, reporting and the CapEx master plant to achieve the sustainability commitment with customers and within the company policy.
Key responsibilities:
Further develop Lonza’s asset management program, define and lead related work streams which address harmonization, efficiency, reliability, digitalization and sustainable asset life cycle management
Develop work streams which address topics like: processes and organization of E&M, planning and scheduling, workspace and workflows, spare part management, maintenance strategy, KPI definition and control, OEE measurements, Reliability and Maintenance Effectiveness Reviews, Costing, Sustainable Asset Management and IT tools
Implement best practices in Engineering or Maintenance in a multi-site environment within a matrix organization
Ensure a culture of mutual accountability and full collaboration with customers and diverse Lonza sites as well as departments for effective implementation and sustainable endorsement of standards
Contribute in a risk based manner to production unit refurbishment, asset recapitalization and new constructions to build-in best practices in E&M;
Define global and local road maps, KPIs and governance for environmental.
Establish the green technology catalog for growth project and recapitalization as new standard.
Manage and oversee environmental projects execution to achieve the yearly targets.
Stablish long term environmental policies and standards to minimize the impact of operations across waste, water, electricity, steam among others consumptions.
Key requirements:
10+ years’ experience in Engineering/ Maintenance in a highly controlled environment with high standards in technology such as the biopharmaceutical industry, green technology, among others.
High level of program and/or project management skills and familiar with Operational Excellence tools
Very high project management skills specifically on project planning and execution.
High communication and presentation skills to stakeholders, customers and SteerCos.
Highly customer-focused, with demonstrable stakeholder management experience and passionate about delivering high quality innovative solutions and services that meet business needs, which are readily scalable
A proven track record of running high performing environments, including virtual teams. Innovative, responsible, and reliable with a highly developed strategic mindset
Analytical and critical thinking skills. Ability to formulate hypothesis and translate into actionable plans
Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.
People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.
