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Technical Expert

Technical Expert

Cascades • Warrenton, Northern Cape, South Africa
2 days ago
Job description

Welcome to Cascades!

Bring your expertise to a people-first dynamic environment where your ideas come to life and excellence shapes everything we do.
Join FABRICIO SMILLOs team as a Technical Expert in Warrenton and help build a more sustainable future.

Your Benefits

Because taking care of our people is in our nature you will have:

  • An annual salary between $115000 and $140000 depending on experience
  • Profit sharing and an employee share purchase program
  • A hybrid work model combined with on-site presence and regular travel to production units across GTA
  • A comprehensive range of benefits: group insurance telemedicine and a retirement plan with employer contributions
  • An annual allowance to be used for goods and services of your choice
  • An annual wellness program and employee assistance program
  • A people-focused work environment based on collaboration and respect

Your Responsibilities

In your role as a Technical Expert Reliability you will be a key pillar in improving maintenance practices and equipment performance across multiple plants.

Your scope of action:

  • Serve as the primary technical contact for strategic customers and key accounts.
  • Provide timely technical guidance and troubleshooting support for product performance quality concerns and packaging-related challenges.
  • Manage customer escalations and lead root-cause investigations to identify and implement effective solutions.
  • Lead customer trials qualification testing validation activities and product performance assessments.
  • Conduct onsite customer visits to evaluate product performance and operational processes.
  • Partner with Sales Operations Manufacturing Quality and Product Development teams to address customer needs and technical challenges while communicating customer feedback and technical requirements to internal stakeholders.
  • Build trusted relationships with customers by delivering responsive and value-added technical support.

Required Qualifications

You will thrive in the role of Technical Expert Reliability if you identify with the following:

  • Minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience in industrial maintenance reliability chemical or process engineering
  • Strong hands-on field experience (mechanical electrical or industrial maintenance)
  • Expertise in maintenance optimization and performance analysis
  • Good command of maintenance management systems
  • Experience with systems such as SAP PLM or Spartakus is a strong asset
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to solve complex problems
  • Influential leadership expert mindset and excellent interpersonal skills
  • Rigor autonomy and the ability to simplify complex technical issues with a results-oriented and continuous improvement approach
  • Excellent collaboration skills in multi-site environments

And if you put as much care into your interpersonal skills as you do into your technical expertise we look forward to meeting you!

Apply now and join our team of Cascaders as a Technical Expert in Warrenton!

Cascades values diversity and inclusion and will consider all applications fairly.

This posting is for an active vacancy within our organization.

Your challenge!

Reporting to the Operations Support Manager or the Vice President Corporate Services the Technical Expert Directors mission is to support his or her group business partners and clients by carrying out specific interventions related to his or her field of expertise that respect Cascades business objectives deadlines and established budget. You use your technical expertise to perform rigorous diagnostics of operational processes and propose innovative and value-added solutions to your business partners and clients. Finally you implement best practices in your sector to ensure customer satisfaction and your achievements sustainability through effective knowledge transfer within the company.

Individual responsibilities

Accountable

Conduct comprehensive reviews to identify how operational processes can be improved

Propose recommendations and improvements based on your reviews

Share knowledge related to your area of expertise

Adhere to Cascades business objectives

Responsible

Apply current best practices

Respect the control points established for each project from the time the assignment is made to the time the project is finalized following the different steps of the project management process

Adhere to project budgets and timelines

Ensure that your work is high quality

Plan and coordinate the tasks of your team members

Provide technical support to your team members

Experiences and strengths

Recognition among your peers of your role as a leader in your specialty

Strong ability to positively influence partners and clients and to guide them towards best practices

Openness that allows you to gain a thorough understanding of the needs of partners and clients

Leadership needed to rally teams around common objectives

Influence required to encourage teams to adhere to standards budgets and timelines

Ability to apply your expertise and specialized knowledge to realistic approaches

A desire to generously share knowledge for the benefit of our partners and clients

Core competencies defined for this job

Accountability Mindset

Cascades Value

Change Agility

Digital & Data Fluency

Results-Driven


Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Yearly Salary Salary: 115000 - 140000

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Technical Expert • Warrenton, Northern Cape, South Africa