With 14 speakers, Industrial maintenance occupies, At InOvest, Almost 40 % of the total factory workforce ! An unparalleled percentage in Reunionese industry, reflection of a support service at the heart of the multifilière solution, Who, Five years after its launch, remains a pioneer in its daily challenge of massive waste treatment.
The inovest factory runs on weekdays from 6 am to 9 pm. Day -to -day, The maintenance team is on the alert. Preventive maintenance : each day, Equipment is verified as part of a pre -established periodic revision program. Maintenance curative : integrated into production teams, Maintenance technicians are ready to intervene at any time to resolve technical incidents caused, mostly, by unwanted objects or materials (There are even self -employed parts with household waste !) which disrupt the functioning of equipment. Night, Between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., Make way for the night team ; The machines are stopped, First level maintenance operations are carried out : cleaning, lubrication, settings, controls, etc. Thus technicians and machinists of undervest maintenance watch 24 hours a day on the production tool which must process 600 tonnes of household waste each day. All these interventions are based on the store, where a storekeeper manages the entries and exits of hundreds of spare parts and prepares the necessary orders for interventions. "The objective is to achieve an availability rate of equipment from 85 to 90 %", explain Jonathan Lebon and Jordan Beauvoir, Maintenance manager and maintenance attaché, who supervise and manage the 14 employees divided between the day and night teams.
The pride of industrial professions
Inovest is the largest factory in Europe in its sector of activity, And this heavy industry generates a unique industrial experience in Reunion, marked by a strong feeling of belonging and responsibility for its staff, especially in maintenance, which brings together electromechanics and mechanics aged 22 to 56 years. "The smell is a barrier to be crossed when you start in this activity of recovery of household waste. But once we crossed it, We discover all the interest of this industry, and the key role that each of us plays to operate the whole. In addition to technical versatility, Our professions require motivation, rigueur, concentration, Vigilance in compliance with safety instructions. In such a large factory, It's a physical job, which requires browse a lot of land. There is nothing routine. We feel essential. For us, It is a pride to work in a large group like Suez, a pride to run a factory of this size, And to know that we are working for our island and its environment ”, explain Jonathan Lebon and Jordan Beauvoir.
A pioneer factory
Seeing visitors regularly covering the factory and being explained its operation is another small source of pride. Metropolitan, from Mauritius, from the West Indies, etc., We come from afar to discover Inovest. Equipment manufacturers, notably, draw lessons from its pioneering multifacious configuration. The undervest factory remains unique because it is the only one to bring together production processes that, everywhere else, work separately : sorting residual household waste and their recycling preparation ; The manufacture of solid recovery fuel (CSR) Who, shortly, will feed the Albioma thermal power station ; the greenhouse fermentation of organic waste and the refining that produces compost, Used for the redevelopment of the landfill (It avoids using topsoil). Tests are also carried out in partnership with companies for the maintenance of green spaces. One of the teachings of the first five years of insevest operation is the crucial importance of maintenance to ensure the continuity of the processes. Composed of four technicians originally, Maintenance has continued to strengthen while the factory took the measure of the difficulties linked to the share of unwanted waste. Today she finds in this team of 14 people the skills and commitment she needs to carry out her mission at the service of the population.
L’immersion, A recruitment method
In the waste treatment sector, Recruitment is complicated by a reality of the working conditions to which many candidates do not adapt. Also Suez Valorization and Recycling Réunion implements a preliminary immersion solution in the company. The explanations of Delphine Montout, Responsible for the HR development center.
What is immersion in recruitments ?
With us, It all starts with a candidate's immersion phase in the work universe, even before the interviews. He discovers immediately if the working conditions suit him or not. This method opens the recruitment process. It avoids subsequent disappointments. We tested it for the recruitment of the inovest team. The factory did not exist yet, The immersion was made on other Suez sites. Immersion also makes it possible to check another fundamental point for us, behavior, Know-how at work.
Inovest is a pioneer factory also on this plan ?
Professional integration had to represent more than 50 % of the workforce. We have received several hundred applications. A recruitment system associating Pôle Emploi and local missions has been set up. The experience we draw from it, It is that insertion -based recruitment was a success. After three or four years, We have people still so motivated. The first internal mobility, that save responsibility, take place this year.
Industrial maintenance, she, Posts a problem with all industrial sectors. For what ?
There is a shortage of maintenance technicians in relation to the needs. Our own team, At InOvest, is today stabilized, But still last year we called on temporary work to complete our internal resource. We have also recruited through this. Training exists, But the meeting lack experienced profiles in this area. She would need a further training sector.
