Job title: Graduate Engineering Trainee
Company: AkzoNobel
Job description: About AkzoNobelSince 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.For more information please visit© 2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.Job PurposeAkzoNobel wants to be the number one choice for our customers and build a world-class, purpose-driven company. We recognize that being able to reach a talented workforce with global experience and skills in all our markets has never been more important to our business. The GET program is developed to give graduates the opportunity to rapidly develop in AkzoNobel and Manufacturing Department while having international experience.
During the graduate program, you will receive on-the-job training across diverse assignments in different areas: continuous improvement, project engineering, process engineering, production planning, and/or reliability engineering. Following this program, you will have the opportunity to be deployed to another site within AkzoNobel in the same region. At the end of the graduate program, based on readiness and performance, you will be assigned a final role in discussion with the Regional Manufacturing Organization from your host sites.Key Responsibilities – Overall
- Actively participate in all site health, safety, environment, quality and sustainability activities.
- Use of statistical analysis and appropriate business excellence project management processes to identify areas of significant improvement and develops plans to realize the benefits
- Investigate root cause of process failures, develop solutions for non-conforming products and implement improvement plans.
- Understand and improve Manufacturing strategy and input into site development plan based on current capabilities.
- Adopt successful ideas from the external world and designs improved systems to meet business needs.
- Utilise the integrated asset management program within the sites lean operating principles, including the use of Work Management, Tactics, Hydrocarbon Management, Condition Monitoring, Defect Elimination, Operate for Reliability, Core Competencies and Metrics.
- Uses data analysis and problem-solving methodologies to maximise plant and equipment effectiveness to achieve optimum life cycle cost of production equipment.
- Generate and utilise charts and graphs to identify and analyze losses to prioritize opportunities for improvement
- Optimization of production schedule working with relevant stakeholders within planning, procurement, logistics and sourcing.
- Analysis and improvement of material efficiencies.
- Deliver key projects to meet a range of business needs which involves defining requirements, preparing plans, allocating resources and project implementation in line with project management methods and techniques.
- Actively participates in continuous improvement projects and Identifies improvement opportunities to improve plant OEE and rate increases.
Key Responsibilities as Process and Project EngineerProcess Engineering:
- Interfaces with offsite functions such as R&D/marketing and central engineering for the industrialization of new products, new raw materials and recipe changes ensuring that changes on site are controlled and managed.
- Provides expertise for onsite operations group during process related troubleshooting issues.
- For capital projects, executes process studies, contributes to pre-projects and performs initial project scoping and business case development, handing over to the project group for execution (except minor projects,
500k).
- During project execution, plays a major role in commissioning, start-up and training, and then owning the technology for the site.
- Stays informed about, amongst others, relevant technology, company news and current SHE standards, and acts if necessary. Identifies what the pertinent information is to use.
- Contributes to site (process) improvements and contributes to CI / ALPS projects.
- Manages manufacturing related NPI activity coordination, if applicable.
- Is familiar and complies with all the applicable corporate as well as site and laboratory policies/procedures regarding personal conduct, HSE and Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs (PSRA) standards
Project Engineering:
- Prepares, schedules, coordinates, and monitors the assigned engineering projects.
- Monitors compliance to applicable codes, practices, QA/QC policies, performance standards and specifications.
- Cooperates and communicates daily with project members and stakeholders to interpret their needs and requirements and provides assistance and technical support.
- Performs overall quality control of the work (budget, schedule, plans, personnel’s performance) and reports regularly on project status.
- Tracks and controls project budgets and timelines to ensure project completion within the approved limits.
- Audits projects after completion to measure project results against original project goals.
- Reviews engineering deliverables and initiate appropriate corrective actions.
- Stays informed about, amongst others, relevant technology, company news and current SHE standards, and acts if necessary. Identifies what the pertinent information is to use.
Experience & Competencies
- Fresh graduate with a positive attitude – From Bachelor (or Master’s degree) in all engineering discipline.
- Exhibit high initiative and leadership in student organizations/extracurricular activities
- Proficient in English (universally understood across other countries)
- Fluent in own local language
- High learning agility and high adaptability
- Willing to learn & experience different functions/knowledge. Open & proactive to share and exchange
- Emotional Quotient (EQ). Healthy / polite challenge of ideas. Confidence
- Excellent communication skills and inquisitive nature
- Ability to think on his/her feet; and to influence and work as part of a team
- Big picture / connectedness. Logical thinking. Analytical skills
- Desire to live the AkzoNobel values and behaviors and cultural principles.
- Ability to interact effectively with customers, community and other AkzoNobel visitors on a regular basis.
- Experience of implementing and sustaining continuous improvement manufacturing principles.
- Awareness of Functional Safety legislation and Safety Integrated Systems.
- HSE / quality compliance experience.
- Capable of applying continuous improvement principles to reduce and control loss and waste
- Demonstratable understanding and application of 5S in the workplace.
- Open for mobility (domestic & international). Can relocate to other countries on completion of the GET program.
At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.Requisition ID: 46933
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Location: Faisalabad, Punjab
Job date: Wed, 28 May 2025 03:59:08 GMT
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