Overview As Plant Engineer at Barilla's Novara site, you drive capital investments and technical upgrades to maximize plant performance. You partner with the Technical Area Manager and Central Engineering to plan, design, and validate new equipment and improvements, ensuring reliability and efficiency. You define maintenance policies, manage spare parts, and oversee installation, testing, and startup of equipment. This role shapes the plant's technical roadmap and delivers measurable productivity gains.

Manage and implement plant investments and collaborate on Technical Development projects

Update technical diagrams and drawings for new and upgraded equipment

Determine spare parts stock for new equipment and installations

Plan downtimes with Production Manager, PPWM and Maintenance Manager for new equipment

Propose and implement asset innovations and supplier development





Identify plant improvement areas through benchmarking and collaboration with TAM and Maintenance

Ensure design-industrialization consistency for new and ongoing projects

Support central engineering in layout, specs, efficiency and supplier selection

Coordinate with Purchasing on orders for new equipment/installations

Monitor equipment performance and implement intervention plans

Coordinate technical training for maintenance personnel

Maintain and update plant technical documentation

Master in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Experience in a similar role, min 3 years

Fluent in English (written and spoken) - preferred

Planning and organizational abilities

CAPEX investment planning

Equipment design and industrialization

📌 Plant Industrial Engineering (Novara)
🏢 Barilla
📍 Novara