Requirements: English
Company: Walker Lovell
Region: Sittard-Geleen , Limburg
Site Maintenance Manager
Oversee and optimise maintenance operations to ensure the integrity, reliability, and efficiency of plant assets throughout their lifecycle. Lead a skilled team to execute maintenance activities effectively in a 24/7 environment, ensuring first-time-right execution in critical situations. Foster a safe, compliant, and cost-effective maintenance culture while aligning practices across sites. Enhance equipment history tracking, work instructions, and spare parts management in SAP, while driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Enforce compliance with legislation, HSE standards, and corporate policies.
- Provide leadership in safety, maintenance execution, and technical integrity.
- Develop and implement a contractor safety plan.
- Translate business goals into a Maintenance Plan with clear KPIs.
- Deliver maintenance targets within budget, ensuring full PM scope.
- Lead key initiatives, including SAP transition and backlog reduction.
- Optimize work execution across plants, fostering alignment and consistency.
- Ensure workforce competency and leadership development.
Role Requirements:
- You have completed a Masters degree in Engineering.
- Proven experience in the (petro)chemical industry in relevant functional leadership roles (minimum 10 years).
- Experienced as a leader in a process industry manufacturing environment with a proven track record of operational responsibility.
- Strong leadership background, including managing team leaders.
- Solid experience with budgeting and financial reporting; strong business acumen.
- You take ownership of your work and are confident in taking responsibility.
- Safety is a top priority for you.
- You perform well under pressure.
- Fluent in English and Dutch.
Why this opportunity could be a great fit for you:
- A competitive salary, including a 13th month, monthly holiday allowance (>8%), and profit-sharing.
- A socially responsible employer offering a group pension scheme and health insurance with a group discount.
- A wide range of training opportunities for ongoing development.
- A pleasant, open, and informal working atmosphere.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Freedom to introduce new ideas and take initiative.