Technical Expert
Job Location:
Warrenton - South Africa
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Job Summary
Welcome to Cascades!
Bring your expertise to a people-first dynamic environment where your ideas come to life and excellence shapes everything we do.
Join FABRICIO SMILLOs team as a Technical Expert in Warrenton and help build a more sustainable future.
Your Benefits
Because taking care of our people is in our nature you will have:
- An annual salary between $100000 and $130000 depending on experience
- Profit sharing and an employee share purchase program
- A hybrid work model combined with on-site presence and regular travel to production units across the eastern United States
- A comprehensive range of benefits: group insurance telemedicine and a retirement plan with employer contributions
- An annual allowance to be used for goods and services of your choice
- An annual wellness program and employee assistance program
- A people-focused work environment based on collaboration and respect
Your Responsibilities
In your role as a Technical Expert you will be a key pillar in improving maintenance practices and equipment performance across multiple plants.
Your scope of action:
- Take ownership of the evolution of maintenance systems (SAP / PLM Spartakus) and ensure data quality and standardization
- Structure and optimize preventive maintenance plans as well as routings
- Develop and deploy best practices in preventive maintenance
- Develop and deploy best practices in predictive maintenance (vibration analysis etc.)
- Carry out and support technical analyses aimed at improving equipment reliability
- Identify and implement strategies to optimize performance and reduce maintenance costs
- Conduct diagnostics of maintenance processes and recommend concrete improvements
- Deploy and standardize best practices across different units
- Support train and develop local teams to strengthen their technical autonomy
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure overall consistency and performance across the network
Required Qualifications
You will thrive in the role of Technical Expertif you identify with the following:
- Minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience in industrial maintenance reliability or engineering
- Strong hands-on field experience (mechanical electrical process or industrial maintenance)
- Expertise in maintenance optimization and performance analysis
- Good command of maintenance management systems
- Experience with systems such as SAP PLM or Spartakus expertise in predictive maintenance (including vibration analysis) and relevant certifications (CMRP PGM or MMP) are strong assets
- Strong analytical skills and ability to solve complex problems
- Influential leadership expert mindset and excellent interpersonal skills
- Rigor autonomy and the ability to simplify complex technical issues with a results-oriented and continuous improvement approach
- Excellent collaboration skills in multi-site environments
And if you put as much care into your interpersonal skills as you do into your technical expertise we look forward to meeting you!
Apply now and join our team of Cascaders as a Technical Expertin Warrenton!
Cascades values diversity and inclusion and will consider all applications fairly.
This posting is for an active vacancy within our organization.
Accountable
Conduct comprehensive reviews to identify how operational processes can be improved
Propose recommendations and improvements based on your reviews
Share knowledge related to your area of expertise
Adhere to Cascades business objectives
Responsible
Apply current best practices
Respect the control points established for each project from the time the assignment is made to the time the project is finalized following the different steps of the project management process
Adhere to project budgets and timelines
Ensure that your work is high quality
Plan and coordinate the tasks of your team members
Provide technical support to your team members
Recognition among your peers of your role as a leader in your specialty
Strong ability to positively influence partners and clients and to guide them towards best practices
Openness that allows you to gain a thorough understanding of the needs of partners and clients
Leadership needed to rally teams around common objectives
Influence required to encourage teams to adhere to standards budgets and timelines
Ability to apply your expertise and specialized knowledge to realistic approaches
A desire to generously share knowledge for the benefit of our partners and clients
About Company
Explore Cascades’ e-commerce packaging solutions: cardboard shipping boxes, insulated boxes, and protective material.
