Jan Russell

Head of CP Manufacturing Switzerland - Active Ingredients

Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Syngenta (15 yrs 1 mo)
    • Head of Swiss Manufacturing Crop Protection
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

      Head of CP Manufacturing Switzerland - Overseeing three Active Ingredients Manufacturing Sites (Kaisten, Muttenz and Monthey) - including serving as Site Director for the Monthey site. Leading a team of 1100+ employees managing the production of multiple key active ingredients and intermediates critical to our global supply chain. Accountable for HSE, budget and operational excellence performance.,

    • Head of Manufacturing EAME - Formulation, Fill & Pack
      Apr 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Management of 8 production sites in the formulation, filling, and packing of products, overseeing 14 CMOs across the EAME region in addition to management of 800 employees including Authorities, Unions and Communities Management. Defining and implementing asset strategies, site relocations (incl. CMOs), and overall organizational vision regarding people, assets and business process improvements (HSE, Quality, Finance, People, Production, Planning & Logistics, Maintenance & Engineering, IT & Direct/Ind. Procurement) including Regulatory and Legal requirements..

    • Site Manager
      Nov 2019 - Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Manager of an Active Ingredient Manufacturing site in Kaisten/Switzerland.

  • Senior Project Manager and Partner at IWP Engineering GmbH
    Jun 2008 - May 2011 · 3 yrs

    EP Project Manager for the Detail Design (Design, Procurement, Contracting) - Equipment, Piping, Civil & Structural, E&I, DSC - Greenfield manufacturing plant of HF and aluminium fluoride complex plant in Abu Dhabi (500 Mio $) Project Manager for a utility pipeline connection project between a waste incineration plant and a refinery at Collombey, VS (CH) (9 Mio CHF) Construction & Project Manager for a new API manufacturing plant in St. Gallen, CH (35 Mio CHF) Company Partner

  • Merck Group (9 yrs 2 mos)
    • Senior Production Manager
      Jan 2007 - May 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Coordination of global production of laboratory chemicals and Life Science Products: - Coordination global contract manufacturing Fine Chemicals - Coordination of investments on production site for microbiological media at Goa and Mumbai, India - Coordinate process and plant design of inorganic pigments on aluminum powder basis at Iwaki, Japan

    • Production Manager
      Sep 2002 - Dec 2006 · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Plant operations - Manufacture of inorganic pigments: - Execution of operational and technical ramp up of pearlescent pigment production lines - Support of global production & technical harmonization of pearlescent pigment production sites in Germany, USA and Japan - Global process engineering (trouble shooting): cosmetic filler production processes, aluminum flake pigment manufacturing, pneumatic blending of pigments, decanter processes, grinding and classification processes etc. - Execute FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) expert on several projects (OEE increase of main processing machines, de-bottlenecking of diverse manufacturing lines) - GMP qualification and validation of production process of pigments for Pharma and Food applications - Moderator and organizer of GMP audits, QM audits (DIN ISO 9001 & 14001) and audits by authorities (permits)

    • Maintenance and Project Engineer
      Apr 1999 - Aug 2002 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Responsible for complete technical maintenance of organic multi purpose production plant (Ex & GMP), annual technical budget: 6 Mio € - Site Engineer Project Manager (mainly organic fine chemicals in Ex & GMP environment): - Design, construction and commissioning of production plant for LC precursors: 5 Mio € (1 year) - Design, construction and commissioning of production plant for cosmetic ingredients: 3 Mio € - Design, construction and commissioning of production plant for microbiological buffers: 3 Mio € - GMP qualification & validation of solid-liquid separation unit for UV filters