Digitalization Engineer

About Franke

We, the Franke company with its three divisions, are a world's leading supplier of products and services for domestic kitchens, the professional foodservice systems and the convenience store sector as well as for professional coffee making. With around 60 companies, we are at home on five continents. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.

The Franke Home Solutions division is the world’s leading provider of smart systems for domestic kitchens. Drawing on a long history of reliability and expertise, we help our partners enhance their businesses and provide outstanding kitchen and cooking experiences to our consumers by offering complete solutions for food preparation and cooking.

About the job

This role reports into Operations Industrial Engineering and is responsible to design a digitalized road-map, the digital manufacturing eco-system, interfacing with ERP system with manufacturing equipment, integrating a seamless, traceable and paperless manufacturing process with embedded AI processes where applicable. – Specification and detailing the digitalized eco-system are in the responsibility of that role as well as leading the detailed design and implementation (design- & build-phase) with suppliers (internal and external), incl. realization and finally the hand-over to the operation organization. Furthermore, a continuous improvement and challenging of the status quo.

Your tasks

• Leading the Digital Road-Map development
• Analysis and specification of the manufacturing digitalized eco-system, incl. the according interfaces and collaboration with suppliers (MES/APS, shop-edge/data lake, AI, interfaces, track & trace, digital labor management)
• Definition of project execution plan, deliverables and timelines, project budgets
• Detailed architecture and specification of system
• Search and evaluate suppliers and collaborative work to firm offer
• Joint detailed engineering (design phase) with supplier in-line with specification, performance and costs
• Support and guide the installation and commissioning (build phase) of system until hand-over to operation
• On time execution of the defined projects within the assigned budget
• Continuous improvement and outlook for manufacturing improvements in respect of digitalization
• Member of a (cross-functional, cross-locational) international project team
• Adhere to corporate social responsibility principles

Requirements

• Self-Starter and Energizer – Proactive in identifying opportunities to enhance performance of the system. Dynamic in implementing change. Energizes the team to take accountability and to actively drive improvement
• Openness of Communication - Encourages open discussion of different ideas and views; welcomes and solicits feedback.
• Driving results - Defines ambitious goals and establishes priorities with clear responsibilities to ensure results. Manages projects, activities, resources effectively and assumes personal ownership and accountability for business results and solutions.
• Analytical Thinking - Ability to think deeply and quantitatively about problems, breaking down problems and presenting solutions while evaluating the pros and cons of each option.
• Best Practice Perspective - Motivated to leave things better than they were. Instils global mindset and champions best practices. Benchmarks to competitors and other industries to identify and apply best practices to inside advantage.
• Managing Innovation – Seeking for innovation paired with operational benefits. Develops and applies creative solutions to business problems, anticipating situations and needs and finding flexible answers to new situations. Champions innovation to improve business performance with the ability to generate innovative solutions that others have not thought of.
• Versatile across cultures – understands cultural differences, and leverages diversity to achieve sustainable outcomes
• Travel – ability to travel internationally, project based up to 40%
• Track record of successfully realized projects (e.g. implementation of systems) in large organizations with international scope
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience of working in industrial/project business environment
• Brings along knowledge of lean manufacturing tools
• Operations background with relevant production technologies (i.e. automated welding technologies, intra logistics, automated polishing technologies or automated packaging technologies). Good knowledge of “best-practices” in operations with a hands-on approach.

What we offer you

• dynamic, international scale-up company as we blaze new trails and shape the future. 
• talented and passionate team that will give you the opportunity to learn from the best and grow your career.
• flexible and balanced remote working conditions (hybrid).

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