About AkzoNobel

Since 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.

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Job Purpose

AkzoNobel 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 an international experience

During the graduate programme, 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 programme, based on readiness and performance, you will be assigned a final role in discussion with the Regional Manufacturing Organization from your host sites

Key Accountabilities

Key Responsibilities during program

•   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

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Experience

Requirements:

Fresh graduate with a positive attitude – From Bachelor ( or Master’s degree) in Chemical Engineering or Industrial Engineering

Maximum one-year experience

Exhibit high initiative and leadership in student organizations/extracurricular activities

Proficient in English (universally understood across other countries)

Fluent in own local language
Emotional Quotient (EQ). Healthy / polite challenge of ideas. Confidence
Open to relocation on local and global level

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: 48642

GET Rotational Engineer