Maintenance Manager

Job Purpose

Lead the site Maintenance function in providing both a reactive and proactive, multi-skilled maintenance service on all operational equipment and facilities infrastructure. Ensure maximum equipment performance and reliability while minimizing operating costs.

Experience

• Professional experience in the role or similar: > 5 years
• Management experience: with similar dimensions
• Highest Education Level: Bachelor's degree in engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice maintenance vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Train, and mentor maintenance supervisors and technicians. Assign daily tasks, evaluate performance, and resolve technical escalations. Lead the team to deliver effectively.
• Maximize equipment performance and achieve a trend decrease of unexpected downtime due to equipment failures.
• Develop a Preventative Maintenance Plan schedule and ensure is carried out, plan to perform missed maintenance activities and make the required adjustments to avoid this in the future.
• Support the autonomous maintenance plan implementation by training the operators on the main "first line" maintenance activities.
• Drive an optimal maintenance work management, develop processes flow, ensure work orders creation, measure and track work order backlog and assign the technical personnel to the schedule's activities.
• Ensure high levels of production assets availability and have fast reaction to fix unexpected machinery breakdowns.
• Achieve maintenance Key Performance Indicators targets (maintenance availability, work order backlog, schedule compliance, MTTR, MTBF and others). Ensure a clear understanding of metrics meanings, calculations and trends by all maintenance team.
• Manage routine calibration and maintenance requirements of a variety of electro-mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Ensure that designated buildings, plant and facilities are fit for purpose and provide proactive support/solutions when required.
• Process Governance: Leverage the CMMS to streamline workflows, ensure accurate failure analysis, and monitor the planned-to-unplanned maintenance ratio to drive continuous improvement in machine availability.
• Annual Budget Development: Lead the development of the yearly maintenance budget, encompassing planned maintenance costs, spare parts inventory, and capital expenditure (CapEx) requirements to support operational continuity.
• Cost Optimization: Plan and execute cost-reduction initiatives while ensuring the effective utilization of resources, balancing short-term financial targets with long-term asset health.

Benefits

• Join Epta in this permanent role, where you'll experience a great blend of new technologies and a modern workplace culture.
• We take development opportunities seriously! Take part in a variety of training through our Epta Academy and external training partners.
• Epta offers the opportunity for remote work whenever possible, along with providing the necessary technical equipment.
• Balance work and personal life perfectly with our flexible working hours.
• Give back more than we receive: Join our volunteering activities and help make the world a better place.