Site Manager - FECC (eng version)

Job Title: Site Manager – European Combustion Research Center

Fives Combustion BU is actively seeking a Head of Combustion Research Center F/H for managing his industrial combustion lab based in Piacenza (Italy).

At Fives, we are all driven by a common vocation: to make people like industry! Together, we work every day to make industry a solution to the major challenges of our time: technological, environmental, social and economic.  

How do we do this? By inventing and designing, for over 200 years, the solutions and technologies that make a concrete and sustainable difference to people's daily lives. 

Fives Pillard and Fives ITAS, subsidiaries of the Fives Group, and members of the Fives Combustion BU, are market leaders in burners and combustion systems. They design and manufacture combustion equipment and control systems, mainly for the mineral industry, the energy sector, industrial drying and O&G. From development, engineering and manufacturing to after-sales service, the Fives Combustion BU provides complete, reliable solutions tailored to the specific needs of its customers worldwide.

We're currently looking for the manager, responsible for our European combustion center, driven by the same desire to make the industry more attractive. And since we all have a role to play in achieving our common goal, yours will be to ensure the development of the burners of the future and low-carbon energies.

More specifically, you will: 

Mission 1 : Combustion Test Planification and achievement 

• Plan and achieve the combustion tests according to Fives Pillard and Fives ITAS R&D programs, respecting safety procedures, technical specifications and budgets;
• Ensure the reliability of the combustion tests by ensuring the appropriate instrumentation and the combustion measurements reliability;
• Manage the resources, and adapt the facilities to the need of Fives R&D programs

Mission 2 : Product development and improvement, technical support

• Through your skill, observations and measurements, participate to product development, propose improvements for with associated validation tests;
• Ensure continuous technological watch (materials, digital, instrumentation…);
• Bring technical support for commissioning of new products during “first industry” stage.

Mission 3 : Combustion center management and HSE management

• Hierarchical management of the engineers, technicians and workers on the site (2 to 4 people);
• Ensure compliance of FECC regarding all QHSE policies and risk management including the respect of local QHSE regulations.

Required competencies:

• +10 years with solid experience in thermal industrial site or industrial lab preferably in the combustion field. Experience in burners is an asset;
• Knowledge of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and combustion;
• Languages: Italian & English fluent, French is a plus;
• Leadership, autonomy and rigor, Technical curiosity and initiative sense, Ability to analyze, Ability to communicate with clarity.                                                                                                                                                                    ->Attached to Fives ITAS, you will work under the supervision of the BU Combustion R&D Director.

If you're described as willing and reliable, we'll tell you that we're looking forward to changing the world with you! 

Industry can do it with you!