Maintenance Manager

Job description

You are responsible for leading a team of Maintenance Technicians to efficiently handle both curative and preventive maintenance activities.

This always while using applicable procedures regarding safety & health, environment, (product) quality and order & cleanliness.

Your responsibility includes handling all preventive maintenance requests including gate keeping, prioritization, work preparation, planning , execution on the assets , maintenance budgeting and maintenance cost follow up .

Key-Tasks:

• Objectively select an in- or outsourcing strategy per type of activity
• Determining, managing, follow up and evaluating external partners (suppliers) in accordance with the internally applicable safety & health , environment and quality rules
• Managing, developing and training the Maintenance team
• Monitor the management and compliance with the specific working procedures related to your area of responsibility
• Sett up and managing key performance indicators regarding production-related maintenance
• Monitor and provide feedback to the available ERP system of activities performed, working hours and materials consumed per equipment
• Budget responsibility for all costs of your department
• Administrative follow-up (via SAP PM or other CMMS ) of the works and materials related to the maintenance work
• Promoting and supporting continuous improvement initiatives (eg: root cause analyses, workshops for drawing up/improving maintenance plans, stocking critical spare parts,...)
• Checking autonomous maintenance work (by operators) for timeliness, completeness and quality
• Managing the technical workshop and all common and personal tools in terms of safety and quality
• Manage all maintenance management routines as described in the maintenance management system

Profile:

• You have a degree in Industrial Engineering or higher studies in electromechanics or equivalent experience
• You also have at least 7 years of executive maintenance experience in a comparable industrial environment, of which at least 3 years as a manager

Further you have expertise in:

• Operational knowledge of production installations and related equipment
• Broad view of all aspects of maintenance (work preparation & planning, maintenance execution, reliability engineering, SHE, CMMS, budgeting , cost management  ...)
• You have a technical background and like to follow the technicians on the work floor.
• You certainly have managerial skills but are also willing to do technical administrative work (procedures, instructions, matrices, ...)
• You are flexible and stress resistant
• You can work independently and solution-oriented, you also penetrate to the root cause of a technical problem
• You are customer-friendly and work respectfully with our internal

Offer

A quality working environment; the opportunity to build up, in a rapidly growing and innovative, Belgian company.
A varied range of tasks with responsibilities and challenges in and with a dynamic team!