Manager Maintenance and Reliability

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

About the Company:

Givaudan is the global leader in the creation of flavours and fragrances. In close collaboration with food, beverage, consumer product and fragrance partners, Givaudan develops tastes and scents that delight consumers the world over. With a passion to understand consumers’ preferences and a passion to improve, Givaudan creates flavours and fragrances that ‘engage your senses’.

Manager Maintenance and Reliability at Givaudan – your future position?

The mission of Givaudan Operations Netherlands is to manage our operation to become the benchmark in our Givaudan world. Your task is to lead the maintenance team within the broad operations field, to improve and to ensure that especially the production can continue flawlessly. To be successful in these continuous changes, we want to meet a technical expert who is good at creating structure and can lead the experienced maintenance team in an inspiring way. You will work with an experienced and motivated team.

Your main responsibilities:

• Leading the team; you directly lead 2 Reliability Engineers, the Team Leader Maintenance, 4 Maintenance Planners a Technical Administrator and a Technical Stock Keeper. You continue to build a top working culture, motivating people to participate and demonstrate commitment. You inspire others and celebrate successes. Performance management cycles and other people processes hold no secrets for you;
• Safety: safety is in your DNA, and you inspire your people to act accordingly;
• Continuous improvement: you’ll motivate your teams towards a continuous improving organization, applying LEAN principles, with a focus on training, documenting, and standardizing work processes in practical, and sustainable manner. You have good financial knowledge about action and improvement;
• Maintenance Execution: Daily follow-up and correcting or improving the technical availability of installations and equipment is part of this dynamic function. Preventive plans and timely execution of planned maintenance activities is an essential part;
• Maintenance: Anticipating and drawing up maintenance plans for the next 3 years contributes to transparency and collaboration with stakeholders. To claim an impeccable technical status, it is necessary to manage KPIs such as OEE, MTBF, Downtime, Costs and share of preventive maintenance. You are also a partner in the Site Masterplan teams for Naarden and Barneveld.
• Stakeholder management: work with all partners as manufacturing operators, planners, material handlers as with production shift leaders, departmental managers, regional Maintenance and Engineering and other site teams to ensure delivery of products to our customers.

You?

Are you a high potential with a technical background that can lead the maintenance team of Givaudan in the Netherlands? Do you like to work with an experienced and motivated team? Do you like to develop yourself to Green Belt level (LEAN) and put this into practice inspiring others? Then join us - and impact your world.

Your professional profile includes:

• Bachelor’s degree (in: Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Science) 
• Experience in the food industry knowing design desired standards is a pro
• 5+ years related experience in a manufacturing process environment.
• Maintenance literate
• Proficient in English and Dutch
• Expertise in SAP is a plus.

Mobility and Ambition

Future assignments outside the Netherlands can be part of the career planning. Ambition beyond the technical boundaries is required.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.