Digital Industrial Data Model Engineer

Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. Our purpose—we bond people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress—is a call to go beyond, to reinvent future forms of progress and create sustainable shared value for all through the power of science. In a world facing an ever-growing population and quest for resources, we aim to be the driving force triggering the next breakthroughs to enable humanity to advance while protecting the planet we all share.

We bond with customers and partners to address today and tomorrow’s megatrends. As a global leader in Materials, Chemicals and Solutions, Solvay brings advancements in planes, cars, batteries, smart and medical devices, water and air treatment, to solve critical industrial, social and environmental challenges. You can count on our innovative solutions to contribute to safer, cleaner and more sustainable future.

Role Overview

**We are looking for**:

- A skilled and experienced engineer with a passion for industrial processes and digital transformation. Sensibility in both of these domains, process AND digital, is absolutely key, we believe this will make the difference.
- You will be part of the Manufacturing Excellence & Digital Transformation Team of the GBU Materials, with a focus in the short term on the Specialty Polymers Worldwide business.
- Your challenge is to maximize the value we extract from our industrial assets. Data models structure raw process data from Manufacturing Execution Systems into Value creating Information for Digital Apps. Benefits are industrial assets productivity, smoother business processes and more effective problem-solving.

**We count on you for**:

- You will define, maintain, deploy, and improve the industrial data models of the GBU customizing the generic asset hierarchy models provided by Corporate DT to GBU specific focus and constraints.
- You will act as the GBU data steward as defined by the Group data governance guidelines.
- You will train, coach and support the sites MES engineers and Data Managers/Stewards when matching these data models to the detailed process specificities.
- You will be the GBU single point of contact to the DT & GEC stakeholders, providing GBU specific business requirements when developing & enhancing the generic Solvay data models.
- You will gain expertise on MES data structuration and event generation tools like OSIsoft PI AF-EF.

To summarize, the main output of the Industrial Data Model Engineer is to produce and constantly maintain and upgrade the applicable specific industrial data models usable by all the plants of the GBU and coherent across the GBU.

**You can count on us for**:

- This role offers a unique opportunity for you to be part of a growing GBU and participate in the outstanding Digital transformation journey that Solvay is launching through the Star Factory program.
- You will be recognized as the “core” orchestrator of the coherence and standardization of digital solutions across the plants of the GBU.
- You will benefit from a large autonomy to define these data models while you will bring permanent support to the engineering teams of the GBU sites to ensure they are relevant and well adopted.

**You will bring**:

- You must have a five-year degree in Chemical/process engineering or possibly in Information engineering.
- You have already experienced the digitalization of processes and you are able to challenge and steer the way assets should be modeled.
- You already gained 3-5 years of experience in an industrial context (plant, technological, R&I, IT).
- Ideally, you have previous experience in asset data model construction.
- You desire to improve your skills
- You like Problem-solving
- You are fluent in English. Italian or French is a plus.
- You are result oriented
- You show good organizational and relational skills: the ability to listen, understanding of others, natural authority, initiative, ability to synthesize, efficiency, desire to improve
- You have a critical mind
- You are used to coaching change, challenge, impact, and influence.
- You are a good team player
- You have a developed enterprise spirit and sense of Initiatives
- You have demonstrated professionalism and a strong work ethic.

**You will get**:

- Competitive salary
- 16 weeks of maternity/paternity and co-parenting leave
- Training platform for all employees
- Free language courses (24 languages available)
- Free well-being sessions (physical and psychological)

**Additional information**:

- Location(s): Europe or US, preferably close to a GBU site. Possibility to be working remotely.
- Travel: occasionally meeting the teams on site. On average, less than 20%.

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