Maintenance Manager

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Leeuwarden
Huhtamaki

Posted on November 13, 2024

Friday afternoon. The clock is ticking to five. A week full of technical and organizational challenges is over. You'll walk through the production for a while. The scheduled machines run at pace, testifying to your team's hard work and prepared for a productive weekend. Over the past week, great steps have been made. Together with production, technical service and engineering, you have worked to improve the means of production. Through data analysis and the expertise of the various team members, you were able to get to work in a focused way. The good result was a significant reduction in downtime and increased availability. The fact that all efforts led to great results means that you really enjoy your work!

About the position

Our technical service is constantly evolving, both technically and organizationally. We are looking for a Maintenance Manager who will contribute to continuously improving the technical condition of our resources and assets. You not only coordinate and lead the team, but you also prepare maintenance reports and develop a strategic maintenance policy within the appropriate maintenance and investment budget (CAPEX). You can optimize processes, integrate best practices and thus contribute to manageable maintenance costs and higher production efficiency. As Maintenance Manager, you are the driving force behind optimizing the technical service and ensuring sustainability and efficiency.

You are responsible for:

Strategic planning: Developing and implementing a proactive maintenance plan that maximizes the availability of our production equipment and extends its lifespan.
Team development: Coaching and motivating your team, where you are an open and listening policy leader who uses the individual strengths of each team member by, among other things, ensuring an optimally functioning and motivated technical service. You will actively participate in coaching and assessing the technical team, and you will have the opportunity to attract new talent.
Analysis and improvement: Analyzing results and identifying improvement actions and supporting in solving sometimes complex technical problems, performing root cause analyses and implementing improvement measures.

Where will you work?

Huhtamaki is a global Finnish consumer packaging organization. Huhtamaki is active in more than 35 countries and has over 18,000 employees. Franeker is home to one of Huhtamaki's first and largest molded fiber factories, where more than 200 employees have been producing sustainable packaging from waste paper (pulp) every day for more than 60 years. Mainly egg boxes and trays, but also industrial packaging and cup carriers. We are passionate about what we do. The innovative and transformative solutions for protective packaging touch the daily lives of people around the world. In doing so, we strive to be the best place to work for our employees; your well-being is our top priority, so you can do the same for others. We care for each other and want our talents to develop in a safe working environment.

What does our organization look like and what can you find with us?

The technical department is responsible for maintaining and repairing the production equipment at the factory in Franeker. The buildings, grounds and utilities also fall under the responsibility of the technical service.

As Maintenance Manager, you are part of the Operations Team. This team also consists of Engineering, WCO, Production and Safety. You report to the Operations Manager.

The Maintenance Team consists of approximately 30 permanent employees who work in three groups: planned maintenance/buildings, sites and utilities, maintenance engineering and faults, including fault service with all-round fault engineers in teams.

In the position of Maintenance Manager, you provide operational management to the three independent coordinators, each representing an organizational unit. Functionally, you are responsible for the entire implementation of the technical service and for supervising and developing your team in a stimulating and coaching way to achieve a strong maintenance culture throughout the organization.

The technical service plays an important role at Huhtamaki Franeker. We ensure that everything remains in good condition and that there is no unnecessary downtime. We support production with knowledge and experience that has been built up over the past years.

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What do we ask of you?

Do you have at least a higher professional education in technology and experience in a similar position within an industrial environment?
Do you have a keen analytical skills and are you able to translate complex technical issues into practical solutions?
Are you a coaching leader with excellent team management knowledge and are you able to listen carefully to your team members and support them in their development?
Do you have a hands-on mentality and would you like to actively contribute to daily activities?
Are you proactive, solution-oriented and do you have in-depth knowledge of modern preventive and corrective maintenance strategies, project management, continuous improvement, legal requirements and are you able to translate these into concrete actions?

What do you get from us?

As a Maintenance Manager, you will be employed directly by us, we like to retain good people.
Your salary — based on the weight of the job and your experience — is between €70,500 and €94,000 per year based on 40 hours per week, including 8% vacation allowance and a 13th month.
Bonus scheme: maximum 4% of your annual salary (depending on individual and business performance).
The space and freedom to keep developing yourself with educations/training at an organization that is constantly innovating. At Huhtamaki Netherlands, we never stand still.
A challenging and independent position with a lot of responsibility within an organization with a great future perspective and impact on a better environment.
Collegiate and energetic colleagues who want to work with you to make the world a little more sustainable.