MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

Ariston Group is a global leader in sustainable thermal comfort that offers a unique, extensive range of solutions for climate comfort, water heating and air handling, as well as components and burners. Listed on Euronext Milan since November 2021, in 2024 the group reported over 2.6-billion-euro revenues, with over 10,000 employees, direct presence in 40 countries in 5 continents, 28 production sites and 28 research and development centers. The group demonstrates its commitment to sustainability through the development of renewable and high efficiency solutions, such as heat pumps, water heating heat pumps, hybrids, domestic ventilation, air handling and solar thermal systems. The group also stands out for its continuous investment in technological innovation, digitalization, and advanced connectivity solutions. The group operates under global strategic brands Ariston, Elco and Wolf, and brands such as Calorex, NTI, HTP, Atag, Brink, Chromagen, Racold, as well as Thermowatt and Ecoflam in the components and burners business.
 

In your role as Manufacturing Engineering in our Central Engineering Team, you will be in charge of driving Industrial projects in Ariston Group for the assigned plants/technology worldwide, with the aim of improving plants’ performances through the implementation of industrial projects (e.g. new production line, improvement of existing, etc.). You will be the point of reference for one or more manufacturing process technologies at global level, for all EWH group plants, and lead specific projects on time, on budget and on quality. You will report to the EWH Investment Director and support worldwide the Plant Industrial Engineers. The role is based in Italy (Marche Region) and will require periodic visit to the plants worldwide.

You will be in charge of the following:

• Acting as project manager for cross-plant projects in his/her technological category, a new technology introduction or multi-supplier projects in a single plant;
• Supporting the Manufacturing Engineering Manager/Director in the execution of major and complex manufacturing engineering projects/initiatives;
• Developing and consolidating a central state-of-the-art knowledge on all key manufacturing process technologies relevant for the Group;
• The redaction of standard RFQ documents;
• Maintaining connections with current and potential suppliers to follow the latest technological developments and to understand the suppliers’ future roadmap;
• Maintaining connections with plants and R&D to understand current technology deployment and improvement opportunities;
• Supporting the plant Industrial Engineering managers in the preparation and execution phase of local/standard manufacturing engineering projects/initiatives and helping in identifying cost reduction opportunities and related cost reduction plans;
• Interacting with WCM team to embed the WCM best practices in all projects;
• Contributing to knowledge sharing selecting best practices in the Group and growing central standards;
• Possibly execute special projects (within the Supply Chain & Operations domain).

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