Production Technology Internship – Batch Process energy analyses & optimization - 6 months

Production Technology Internship – Batch Process energy analyses & optimization - 6 months

• Intern

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects, and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Job Description

This six-month traineeship, starting ideally in September 2024, offers an opportunity to become an integral part of the Production Technology Group housed within the Process Technology & Analytics Department at our Monthey facility. The group is dedicated to the innovation, support, and refinement of chemical processes essential for the production of both new and established active ingredients.

While we have a clear understanding of the overall energy consumption in our production, the specific energy usage across individual process units remains uncharted. The aim of this internship is to conduct a detailed energy audit within a specified production building, to map out the energy flow, and to identify actionable energy-saving measures. Through this process, the intern will contribute to our ongoing efforts to enhance energy efficiency and reduce our environmental footprint.

Your accountabilities:

• Join the Production Technology team and collaborate with different technical experts and production teams.
• Take part in a development project and provide technical support.
• Energetic audit and data collection
• Energy audit and build the energy balance for each production lines.
• Energy requirement analysis and improvement potentials (Including Pinch analysis)
• Perform engineering calculations for the energy optimization of existing assets.
• Use process risk analysis and assess process safety parameters for proposed solutions.
• Evaluate the environmental impact of selected solution.

Qualifications

What are we looking for:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or closely related discipline
• First experience in Chemical Engineering is a plus.
• Technical and theoretical background in main chemical process unit operations such as distillation, crystallization, filtration…
• Ideally, good Knowledge in heat and mass balances, flowsheet reading, and pinch analysis.
• Team-player with excellent communication skills and the capacity to work independently when a situation demands it in a multidisciplinary team within an international business.
• Fluent in French, other languages are a plus.

Additional Information

What we offer:

We offer a variety of financial and non-financial benefits including:

• We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.
• Flexible working arrangements and environment with an open culture and diverse workforce
• The opportunity to work with and learn from highly qualified and experienced employees.
• Learning culture (Together we Grow) and wide range of training options.
• You will profit from a competitive pension fund plan, onsite doctor, gym, canteen, and other benefits.

Interested? We look forward to receiving your online application including all relevant documents (cover letter, CV, availability and certificates).

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.