At Corteva Agriscience, you'll help us grow what's next. No matter what your role, you will be part of a team that is building the future of agriculture, solving the world's food problems through innovation, technology and putting people first.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Services and Ingineer-SRA to join our team in Arica, Chile!

The Services and Ingineer-SRA will manage, control and supervise facilities requirements and supplies necessities for Arica site, ensuring maintenance and operation of field infrastructure, buildings and warehouse, manage contractors and minor civil works, capital projects site requests from Front-End Loading through Detailed Design & Construction, follow up execution, Return to Operations, Startup and project closeout. The candidate will collaborate with the Project Leader. 

Responsibilities

Supervise and manage services contracts for the facilities in site Arica, analyzing contract services, to give an efficient base line for Procurement yearly contract process.

Manage, control and communication, of the development and execution of projects and minor civil works for the program’s requirements.

Manage the preventative and corrective maintenance duties plan for the facilities program.

Keep control of the quality services and work on time execution.

Manage the services daily operations ( Field basic conditions and building)

Keep control and stablish metrics for the workload of all the subprogram under his responsibility.

Manage the supplies and agrochemicals warehouse, keeping an accurate inventory control and reporting the existence on line for the internal costumer.

Establish a digital system for control the critical stock and reorder of the supplies and agrochemicals of the field programs.

Manage the inventory audits based on good practices and critical supplies, along with preparation of existence reports on define time.

Generate the strategies to manage the products and inventory of all programs in the most efficient way.

Manage and control resources for the execution of the program budget –ensuring efficient cost management and operational excellence in the area.

Innovate and implement automation improvements in all operations.

Lead standardization in operations procedures.

Elaborate the business case, project charter and the scope of the capital projects.

Develop a management of change process, for all the local capital projects.

Lead the local project team to meet the business & project objectives and deliverables as outlined in the Business Case, authorization documents & project gate reviews. 

Give local support as a counter part for technical inspection and contractors, to the National project leader.

Keep track of the correct implementation and execution of the capitals project.

Impulse efficiency in capitals projects cost, optimizing resources.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years experience, leading facilities operations

Minimum of 3 years experience, managing projects.

University degree in Civil work, Industrial, Electronic, Mechanical or civil engineering. 

Fluency in written and spoken English is desired. 

Autocad Knowledge desired 

Strong interpersonal, teamwork and communication skills. 

Advanced user of MS Office, Project, programs. 

Diplomacy and negotiation skills to manage conflict situations. 

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package (health and life insurance, lunch benefits, sports activities reimbursement, vacation bonus, and much more).

Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Dynamic and inclusive work environment.

The possibility of being part of a global team committed to making a difference.

Availability to work 100 % on site in Arica Research Center