Maintenance Manager

About the role

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and optimal performance of all equipment, utilities, and site infrastructure. This role is critical to maintaining production continuity and driving operational excellence within a fast‑moving consumer goods environment, particularly in dairy processing.

Key responsibilities

• Define, implement and continuously improve preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Guarantee production continuity by optimizing equipment uptime and minimizing unplanned downtime.
• Control maintenance costs while improving energy efficiency and overall equipment performance.
• Ensure strict compliance with safety, quality and environmental regulations.
• Lead, develop and mentor the maintenance team, building required competencies.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the maintenance function.

Required profile

• Engineering degree in Maintenance or a related discipline.
• Minimum five years of experience in a similar maintenance management role.
• Experience in the FMCG sector, preferably within dairy processing.
• Strong knowledge of industrial performance management and key maintenance KPIs.
• Fluent in English.

Required skills

• MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
• MTTR (Mean Time To Repair)
• TD (Total Downtime)
• TOD (Total Operating Days)
• PR (Performance Ratio)