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Controls Engineer

Ferrero
Louisville, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 12/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/17/2026
Company Description:

Ferrero is anything but ordinary!

Ferrero is a global company that is privately owned by the Ferrero family. The company has grown from the small Italian confectionary shop in Alba, Italy to become the third largest confectionary manufacturer in the world, producing famous market-leading brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, and Kinder Joy®.

With new innovations and exciting expansion plans in place, there has never been a better time to join the Ferrero Group and be extraordinary with us!

About the Role:

Supervising maintenance, supporting interventions, collaborating in the new projects’ realization. Defining, organizing and managing the realization of periodical revisions programs, ordinary, extraordinary and soft intervention, optimizing relative costs in order to achieve determined production results, both in qualitative and quantitative terms, respecting the given deadlines. Coordinating and organizing maintenance activities in order to ensure the plants workability (devices) and the highest level of reliability and efficiency of production lines.

Ensuring the management of plant utilities in order to guarantee the energy supply (hot and cold water / steam). Ensuring the air conditioning for both production sites and offices. Ensuring maintenance activities in relation to any buildings.

Main Responsibilities:

BUDGET

  • Maintenance Budget: gives to RdM and RMS all the indications dealing with resource needs (personnel, spare parts, external services companies), for the area under its responsibility.

MAINTENANCE POLICIES

  • Definition: cooperates in data collection and analysis needed for the evaluation of potential changes to maintenance policies.
  • Automaintenance: cooperate on the detection and application of automaintenance areas.
  • Monitoring: cooperates in the analysis of results derived from application/modification of Maintenance policies.

INTERVENTION PLANNING

  • Mid Term plan: cooperate in mid-term needs detection.
  • Activities memorandum: gives indication for the update of the intervention memorandum.
  • Scheduled stops planning gives information regarding resources availability (people, spare parts, external service companies).

INTERVENTION SCHEDULING

  • Short term plan development gives indications regarding resources availability (personnel, spare parts, external companies) and advice to postpone/hasten some of the interventions.
  • Collection and analysis of intervention needs collects and analyses anomalies signals giving indication regarding intervention needs.
  • Predictive Maintenance: collects all those weak signals detected on production units to analyze them together with RdM, and to agree on timing and modality of intervention.

Who We Are Looking For:

  • 4-7yrs of experience
  • Knowledge of Ferrero product technology, process and food sector.
  • Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership techniques, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

How To Be Successful At Ferrero:

Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.

Diversity Statement:

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.

Ferrero N.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

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