Senior Manager Technical Services

Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 70-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do. Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.

Purpose of Job

To ensure effective and efficient management, coordination and development of the technical activities (asset management, project management, technical process development and engineering services) for the Brunsbüttel site.

• Drive and entrenching a Zero Harm culture within Technical Services and its associated service providers
• Ensure full compliance with all statutory maintenance and inspection requirements for Brunsbuettel as well as the timely correction of identified deficiencies
• Cooperate with operational maintenance team, as part of Work Order Management process and structures
• Deliver on the focus areas outlined for Strategic Maintenance, incl. Bad Actor reduction, Equipment Strategy development (via FMEA) and ensuring fit-for-purpose service provider contracts
• Adherence to the agreed capital, maintenance and functional budgets
• Prioritization of project requests, as well as resource prioritization, in accordance to Business Risk or Opportunity assessments and the agreed Chemicals Strategy
• Further development of the Brunsbuettel plants and associated technologies, in agreement with the Business Segments, as well as implementation of new technologies at site
• Lead, motivate and develop the Technical Service employees via cooperation with HR
• Drive continuous improvement of all Technical Services process and activities

Formal Education

• Degree in chemical engineering / process engineering / mechanical engineering

Working Experience

• more than 10 years of relevant working experience

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• strong leadership skills
• project development and execution experience
• extensive experience in the Maintenance of chemical plants
• excellent safety management experience
• process safety knowledge
• chemical industry experience (products, applications, processes)
• fluent German and English (written & spoken) and very good communication skills
• good IT skills (MS-Office, SAP etc.)

• A collegial team and a wide range of tasks with a high degree of creative freedom await you, for which you will quickly assume responsibility
• We ensure the best possible work-life balance through flexible working hours, the option of mobile working and full-time employment of 38.5 hours
• We offer you attractive remuneration, supplemented by numerous modern social benefits including company pension schemes
• We support you in your development with individual further training opportunities at specialist, project or management level and enable a wide variety of career paths
• As part of our health management, you can access a work-life service, personal advice/coaching and webinars at any time

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