Sr. Engineer, Root Cause Analysis

Job Title: Sr. Engineer, RCA (temporary assignment 18 months)

JOB PURPOSE & RESPONSIBILITIES

This exciting role as Sr. Engineer RCA (Route Cause Analysis) gives you the opportunity to BE THE IMPACT by building capability within the organization to eliminate defects and improve learning from incidents of the Gelsenkirchen assets as well as from incidents of Sabic’s global assets. Therefore, beyond actual reliability issues, you will ensure proactive RCA studies based on eg. common theme analysis over all Sabic sites to build a high-reliability organization (HRO) in Gelsenkirchen. To do so, you ENGAGE with several stakeholders within and beyond the Gelsenkirchen organization such as EHSS, Operations, Sabic’s Asset Technology Center (ATC), Technology & Innovation and many others.

In your function, you will DELIVER a continuous improvement of the reliability performance of our assets based on RCA analysis. Your in-depth technical knowledge combined with your convincing and open personality enables you to DELIVER a valuable contribution in our reliable business in the future. The ideal candidate has RCA methodology knowledge in addition.

This task mainly includes

• Efficient and effective facilitation of RCA / RCM studies / meetings
• Coach and mentor the RCA team and effectively manage their roles and responsibilities and required resources
• Ensure quality RCAs and follow-up on recommendations and gap closure
• Report status of RCA recommendations
• Close cooperation and high engagement with different departments across Sabic (e.g. Technical, Maintenance, Operations, EHSS, Asset Technology Center, T&I,…)
• Being the site RCA focal point on site Gelsenkirchen

An ideal candidate for this position provides the following attributes, well reflected in your professional experience:

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  Attitude of compliance with legal, regulatory and SABIC internal requirements
• Ability to effectively communicate and ENGAGE with different stakeholders, internally and externally
• High motivation and strongly interested in asset reliability
• Highly committed to improve the asset reliability of the site Gelsenkirchen based on RCA analysis
• High sense of responsibility
• High level of self-organization skills and proactivity
• INSPIRation skills
• Strong and cooperative team player
• Natural leadership
• Systematic, independent and responsible working style
• Ability to identify and consequently follow priorities

Additional Responsibilities:

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  Ability to influence SABIC Europe and Global Partner(s)
• Ability to balance supportive/steering activities at Site and European level (in Manufacturing)
• Contribute to Manufacturing projects across Germany and globally
• Ability to work and influence in multi-cultural, diverse Global Community whilst aligning with local and global policy and legal directives
• Ability to promote local and global corporate values

MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor and/or Master’s Degree or Equivalent (ideally Postgrad or equivalent) in Manufacturing, Process, Chemical or Mechanical and/or related Degree of study
• Excellent Conceptual, Communication and Analytical Skills
• Fluency (both written and Oral) in German and English
• Excellent presentation and network skills
• Proficiency in IT/various connecting IT systems such as Office, SAP, reporting, etc
• Some Experience with working in multi cultural and diverse environment and influencing and engaging at senior management level

Location: Gelsenkirchen, Germany

We are very curious to hear from candidates who have a Master`s degree or equivalent in the area of Process or Mechanical Engineering preferably along with several years of experience in the chemical industry. Dedicated experience with the RCA methodology analytical methods to derive improvement potential from this data is highly welcome. We are looking for an open-minded, goal-oriented, proactive team player with a natural self-motivated manner and a high sense of responsibility.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Interested in this position?

Please apply online by sending us your CV and motivation letter in English. Due to data privacy reasons we do not handle any applications sent by email. For additional questions you can contact: Karl Davies, Corporate Recruiter via email – karl.davies@sabic.com

The application closing-date is 31st January 2023.

Please be informed that a reference check, an employment verification and E-assessment are part of our recruitment process. A Certificate of Good Conduct can be requested depending on the level of the role in our organization and/or function, allowing us to request depending on local regulations.

Responses from employment agencies will not be considered.

ABOUT SABIC

SABIC is a global diversified chemicals company, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We manufacture on a global scale in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, making distinctly different kinds of products: chemicals, commodity and high performance plastics, agri-nutrients and metals. We support our customers by identifying and developing opportunities in key end-use applications such as construction, medical devices, packaging, agri-nutrients, electrical and electronics, transportation and clean energy. Our production in 2020 was 60.8 million metric tons.

We have more than 33,000 employees worldwide and operates in around 50 countries. Fostering innovation and a spirit of ingenuity, we have 9,000+ global patent filings, and significant research resources with innovation hubs in five key geographies – USA, Europe, Middle East, South Asia and North Asia.

In Europe, we have over 6,000 professionals running multiple world-scale production sites and 4 technology and innovation centers. We are present in almost every European country. Major locations within our broad network of innovation, production and marketing are: Teesside (UK), Cartagena (Spain), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Geleen (the Netherlands), Bergen op Zoom (the Netherlands) and Genk (Belgium).

SABIC is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and as such will not discriminate in its employment practices, including recruiting and hiring practices, based on a person’s race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.