<h1 style="text-align:justify">Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.</h1> You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team. Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you? At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments! We are currently looking for a Process Control and Improvement Superintendent to join us at Wavin Ecuador . If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on. General Purpose <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Ensure operational performance excellence through analysis, control, and continuous improvement of extrusion, injection, and auxiliary production processes.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Guarantee process stability, maximize asset efficiency, optimize yields (OEE, kg/hr, scrap), and lead standardization, digitalization, and structural improvement initiatives aligned with Orbia’s Manufacturing Excellence strategy.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Serve as the technical owner of the process, ensuring that equipment, parameters, standards, and methods meet safety, quality, cost, and productivity indicators.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Control and optimize production processes using process control tools and methodologies, continuous improvement, and lean manufacturing, ensuring proper information management, KPI tracking, and expense monitoring.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Comply with and enforce the corporation’s environmental and safety policies.</li> </ul> Challenges <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Ensure robust, stable, and controlled processes under standard parameters.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Identify, analyze, and eliminate bottlenecks, variability, and losses.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Establish guidelines for implementing lean tools. Lead Continuous Improvement initiatives (Lean / TPM) to improve OEE and reduce scrap.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Develop performance measurement tools and methods (OEE, GSM, production rates, energy efficiency).</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Implement MOC (Management of Change) discipline to ensure no change occurs without prior technical analysis.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Provide technical guidance to production and maintenance to ensure reliable process operation. Conduct training and onboarding sessions for personnel.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Promote digitalization, automation, and data utilization in the plant.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Ensure budget compliance through expense control and analysis.</li> </ul> Responsibilities <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Process Engineering and Control</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Continuous Improvement and Productivity</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Technical Support to Operations</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Systems, Data, and Digitalization</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Safety, Quality, and Compliance</li> </ul> Requirements <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">5 years of professional experience in production roles such as supervisor or similar.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Bachelor’s degree in chemical, Mechanical, Industrial, Process Engineering or related fields.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Deep understanding of plastic transformation processes (Extrusion/Injection).</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Proficiency with analysis tools: SPC, root cause analysis, 5Why.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Knowledge of TPM, Lean Manufacturing, OEE, MOC.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Knowledge of SAP, Atlas, Infopro systems (desirable).</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Ability to interpret drawings, technical specifications, and engineering documentation.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Knowledge of industrial safety, quality, energy, and applicable ISO standards.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.4px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;text-indent:0.4px">Advanced/professional English level.</li> </ul><h1 style="text-align:justify">What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers </h1> <h1 style="text-align:justify">Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.</h1> <h1 style="text-align:justify">Organization</h1> Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin. Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023. Recruitment agencies are requested not to respond to this vacancy. Unsolicited applications from third parties in general are also not accepted.

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