Site Lead - Lichtenburg at Bayer

Key responsibilities and tasks

• Lead SSHE as 16:2 legal appointee and provide resources to ensure compliance with Safety policies and procedures as set by Bayer and ISO45001 standards.
• Responsible for management of field and plant operations in utilizing onePSS as platform.
• Leads key planning activities, from crop plan, field, processing and inventory control.
• Strategy and tactical planning short and long-term to ensure sustainable seed production.
• Ensure compliance with quality assurance standards and management systems as set by ISO 9001:2015
• Responsible for budget control and cost management.
• Responsible to set KPI`s to support goals and objectives
• Identify training needs and annually assess progress of people development, including succession planning.
• Plan and execute the Capex plan for field and plant operations.
• Leading Management of Change for implementation of production systems (onePSS).
• Support the continuous improvements initiatives identified through onePSS.
• Mentor and coach people leaders with DSO (Dynamic Shared Ownership) as basic operating model. Transition to a fully DSO organization.
• Maintain compliance with all regulatory requirements, ethical standards and human rights.
• Develop and implement new systems, best practices, and optimizations to enable business growth.
• Establish and monitor organizational budgets to manage COGs and a strong emphasis on capital expenditure management.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in agronomy or mechanical, and 5 years experience in seed production
• Hands on experience and technical proficiency in seed processing activities and management of a team
• Field seed production experience desirable
• Fluent in English
• MS Office software (Excel, E-mail, Word, Project etc.) proficiency.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Results focused with ability to work on own initiative
• Strong teamwork (flexibility to work across the areas and positively influencing others) maintaining contamination prevention systems.