Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Reports to Operations & Facility Manager General description (What is the purpose of the job? What is the reason for existence of this job?) The Maintenance Manager is responsible for planning and organizing the entire maintenance of instruments, equipment, machinery, buildings and facilities within pre-set qualitative and budgetary norms, in order to guarantee the continuity of operations. Responsible for ensuring organization and upkeep of CMMS and spare parts inventory. Most important result areas and main tasks (What has to be realized and which tasks are needed for this?) Maintenance Management  Determine guidelines regarding the procedures to be followed for maintenance of the machinery, in order to ensure that an optimal support can be given to the Production department in an efficient and effective way.  Draft and manage the inspection and preventative maintenance plan in order to make sure all equipment, machinery, buildings and facilities remain in good shape and breakdowns are limited.  Lead and support the solving of technical breakdowns and issues. Perform breakdown analyses and manage smaller maintenance engineering projects to address reoccurring breakdown, excessive wear and tear or costs.  Organize, coordinate and track maintenance subcontractors  Ensure Maintenance Technician compliance with CMMS procedures and logging. Budget and compliance  Draw up, manage and follow up the working budget and provide corrective adjustments to ensure that an optimum allocation of working resources is obtained within the general budgetary vision.  Oversee compliance with legal requirements, the organization's lines of policy, safety, quality and environmental standards and internal rules and procedures to ensure safe and correct maintenance policy.  Manages execution and planning of facility improvements, maintenance, and CAPEX projects. Organization and personnel  Ensure that all required skills and knowledge to efficiently and effectively address technical issues is available  Coach and work on the development of your employees to ensure their competencies, skills and know-how are used and developed to the best advantage and to work as a well-functioning department.  Keep oneself continuously informed of the evolutions and developments in the field of maintenance. Keep his/her knowledge up-to-date when it comes to evolutions in order to strengthen one's credibility by offering a service permanently based on actualized knowledge.  Take responsibility to ensure that smooth communication and collaboration with colleagues from the other departments/lines are in place to ensure that everything runs smoothly with regard to the correct persons/departments. Furthermore the employees must comply with all the domestic rules and procedures,  Protect all belongings against stealing and abuse  Ensure separation of tasks to minimize fraud  Comply with the business values, laws and rules  Secure discretion of confidential information  Regularly bring material assets into line with the bookkeeping Education/Experience/Skills/Knowledge Competencies (characteristics, which you have to command to fill in the job well)  Self-driven, Inventive, Analytical, Hands-on, Structured Skills/Knowledge (what do you have to know and be able to do to fill in the job well?)  Strong knowledge on mechanics, electrics, pneumatics, hydraulics  Knowledge of automation and control logic systems, reading and interpreting drawings and electrical systems.  Capable of thinking technically  Able to convey information to / negotiate with third parties (suppliers/operations) Education/Experience (which background/base do you certainly need to fill in this job well?)  Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering preferred  Min. 8 years of experience in Industrial processes, people management and reporting