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As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Are you an exceptional people leader with extensive manufacturing knowledge and experience?

Are you excited by the opportunity to lead a multi-discipline Engineering team of 120 people through a change program on a large, complex, and growing manufacturing site?

Are you interested in being a key member of a dynamic and energised Site Leadership Team who are driving an ambitious strategy focussed on our team, our ways of working and future site development so we can grow together?

We are looking for a Head of Engineering to join our Huddersfield Manufacturing Centre. We have approximately 450 employees and we are investing in our infrastructure, ways of working and capabilities of our teams to support our site growth.

Reporting to the Site Manager, you’ll have a key role on our Site Leadership Team and Global Head of Engineering Network with responsibility for delivering our strategic change programme at both a departmental and site level at a key strategic manufacturing operations centre.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Significant experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Relevant production or engineering management experience.

Whilst this role offers a competitive base pay, at Syngenta we value total reward which includes the benefits we offer to our employees. We support well-being, offering comprehensive benefits including flexible working, generous holiday entitlement, discretionary bonus scheme, competitive pension scheme, private medical insurance and employee assistance programme.

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