Director PSC NA Engineering

Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world, with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 22 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 22 countries, and employs approximately 4,000 people.

Shares of the parent company Davide Campari - Milano N.V. are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. Campari Group is today the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

General Description of the Role

The Americas Engineering Director is part of the Global Engineering team and responsible to manage all engineering activities in the Americas region.

She/he is responsible:

• 200M USD) for the entire region (6 bottling factories – 6 distilleries);
• to manage most important engineering projects of the region;
• to deliver feasibility studies with capex estimation;
• to support all plants and work operationally with local Engineering organizations.

The role works closely with VP Manufacturing Americas and with all manufacturing sites leadership teams.

Key enabler is a strong external network with key partners, vendors and innovation centres.

Main accountabilities and tasks

• Collect from factories, distilleries and from other regional functions (Quality, H&S, Envy Sustainability, Logistics, R&D) bottom-up requests to build the capex budget and strategic plan (3 years). Proposals should cover needs to reach annual and strategic plan targets, to match production growth, to assure business continuity.
• Help factories and distilleries to generate ideas and transfer best practices to deliver productivity on all dimensions.
• Evaluate priorities and consistency of proposals, together with Director Global Engineering and VP Regional Manufacturing, to get approval of the regional capex budget from Company Officers.
• Control the capital expenditure process along the year for all sites and track plants projects, involving CAPEX, to avoid delays and late result delivery.
• Participate to supplier selection with a technical perspective.
• Manage through her/his direct team, regional projects with huge capex involved:
  • plant capacity growth;
  • main equipment substitution or extraordinary refurbishment;
  • energy intensity, water intensity, carbon footprint reduction;
  • loss prevention and risk management;
  • transfer or in-sourcing of production lines.
• Estimate capital needs in early stages of activities such as product renewal (e.g. bottle, cap, label, …), “make or buy” analyses, capacity growth, production transfer, as a reflection on manufacturing process (equipment, format change, buildings, tanks for cellars, …) to support the decision-making process.
• Direct Engineering local managers to work with their teams and deliver:
  • performance improvement to manufacturing lines, cellars, utilities and buildings;
  • productivity plans to contribute keeping cost per liter flat year-over-year;
  • Factory Master Plan to design and manage a consistent evolution and optimization of each site;
  • rigorous purchase, installation and commissioning of new equipment.
• Sponsor and facilitate the implementation of standard Engineering KPI, processes, tools, methods and procedures:
  • Problem Solving methodologies (e.g. PDCA, A3, 8D, …)
  • Process-FMEAs
  • CQV (Commissioning, Qualification, Validation)
  • O.E.E.
• Identify and transfer best practices from plant to plant and out of the region.
• Build and keep alive a network with suppliers, Universities, Research Centers, Institutions to have an updated benchmark with external environment and catch innovation trends.

Characteristics

• Skills & Competencies to generate, manage and track capex budget.
• Proven track record of costs controlling & KPIs management.
• Excellent project management skills, PMI certified is a plus.
• Ability to manage people and teams in different countries through leadership, coaching and training.
• Knowledge and practical application of tools and techniques for:
  • Problem Solving;
  • TPM e Lean Manufacturing;
  • Process-FMEA;
  • Energy Management.
• Knowledge of KPIs like OEE, MTBF, MTTR.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels of the organization: can convey technical matters in an easy way and interact effectively from the shopfloor to senior stakeholders
• Knowledge of safety directives, laws and risk analysis methods applied to machines and equipment

Languages:

Fluent written and spoken English.

Preference for good spoken Spanish.

Key relationships:

Internal: Plant Directors, regional Q team, regional H&S Team, regional Procurement Team, regional Logistics Team, Global Engineering Team

External: suppliers, universities and research centers, ….

Experience and Education:

• Experience of at least 15 years in factories with leading positions in Production and/or Plant Engineering and/or Maintenance.
• Engineering university degree
• Preference for experience in Food & Beverage

Other requirements:

Able to travel to Campari main plants (Italy, France, Mexico, Jamaica, USA) on a monthly base

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

At Campari Group we believe in building more value together, thus we see diversity in all forms as a source of enrichment. Our employment policies and practices ensure that we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment without regard to any individual’s race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or characteristics or expression, political affiliation or activity, age, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Note to applicants:

Your application will be assessed based on your abilities, expertise, general knowledge and experience, not because of any confidential, proprietary or trade secret information you may possess. You must not disclose to Campari Group any such information. In the event that you are asked a question that cannot be answered without disclosure of any confidential, proprietary or trade secret information (including from a current or prior employer or their vendors or customers), you must decline to answer the question.

Notice to third party agencies:

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Services Agreement, we will not consider, or agree to, payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event that a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency