Are you a leader, who inspires, motivates and likes to bring the Global Operational Excellence to the next level? If you are excited to work in a role that offers a variety of responsibilities, a sophisticated technical environment and the opportunity to have a lasting impact on an international organization, then this is the job for you!
What are you going to do?
As the Global Operational Excellence Leader Maintenance, you will be leading, inspiring and motivating a group wide engineering community, through development and deployment of the Engineering vision and strategy, including focus on improvements in People Development, Asset Care and Maintenance processes, Maintenance Cost and Health, Safety & Environmental compliance.
Key focus is on delivery of OE targets and availability improvement while increasing maintenance excellence capability worldwide and developing our operational maturity. The purpose of this role is to act as the central subject matter expert, gatekeeper and custodian of Maintenance Excellence tools, processes, good practices and frameworks. You'll be also responsible for development of the improvement plans, based on prioritization by value/impact, and also the tools, good practices and frameworks to ensure successful achievement of business goals. You will then support deployment through the Business Unit Operational and Maintenance teams. Key focus will be on delivery of OE targets and CO2 reduction while increasing maintenance excellence capability worldwide and developing our operational maturity in maintenance.
Your responsibilities
• Aligned leadership: Designing & deploying Maintenance Excellence strategy and ensure alignment at all levels. Ensuring legislative compliance for the Business through periodic audit and benchmarking to enable consistency across the Group. Promoting the sustainability and energy reduction agenda and across the engineering community.
• Performance Routines & KPI's: Ensuring we have a defined set of measures across the business to support strategy, being reviewed at correct frequency by correct people at desired frequency & quality.
• Aligned Maintenance improvement tools: Ensuring teams are equipped with relevant improvement tools / processes to achieve strategic goals. Ensuring that the Blueprints are in place for Key processes & ways of working.
• Highlighting improvement areas: Developing and deploying maturity assessment and ensure all sites have annual maturity improvement plans in place. Ensure there is a defined spares strategy & work with central purchasing to optimize the costs of parts & services, continually improving the quality of service & performance from the suppliers.
• Competence development: providing training and guidance in process troubleshooting and optimization of equipment. Managing the blueprint for Maintenance competence developed and ensuring development of training material to capture expert knowledge and good practices.
• Aligned org model: Ensuring resources are aligned to strategy and we have a defined organizational design, based on scale & complexity, to support Maintenance Excellence. Promotion of the engineering profession and mentoring of engineers in their desired career path.
• Supporting Systems & Technology: Leading & managing the development & application of maintenance systems across the Business Unit, ensuring a common functionality & develop capability of users to enable best practice performance and working in line with strategies.
• Developing the Group Maintenance policies & procedures, ensuring they are clearly communicated & implemented across the Group; including coordinating the Maintenance forum ensuring best practice is shared.
• Best practice sharing across group: ensuring creation and adoption is tracked.
• Group wide benchmarking to drive performance.
• Lead complex cross company, BU, cross functional or end 2 end projects, as agreed by the Global Operational Excellence Director.
What we offer
As Nutreco our mission is 'Feeding the Future'. In a world with limited natural resources, our ambition is to meet the rising food needs of a growing world population in a sustainable manner. We offer you the opportunity to grow professionally, within Nutreco and the broader SHV group. Nutreco belongs to the SHV Family with more than 60.000 employees. Working for Nutreco means an impactful role in an international, dynamic environment with complex and diverse topics with plenty of development opportunities, also within the HR department.
What else is in it for you?
• We will offer you a fulltime hybrid position, 40 hours per week. From an agreed location- ideally in EU with easy access to Amersfoort NL.
• Competitive remuneration package with a good pension scheme
• Flexible work environment with option to work from home several days per week.
• You will get 30 vacation days, with the possibility to sell or purchase a limited number of days.
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning platform and we highly promote/create opportunities for personal and professional development.
• An informal global working environment with great colleagues
• Belonging to the SHV Family with more than 60.000 employees.
What we ask
To succeed in this role, you need to be enthusiastic, pro-active and have significant knowledge of engineering strategy, program management and change management. You are strong in planning and coordinating work cross functionally on global level in collaboration with Global/central team. You understand cultural differences, have strong communication skills and are easily able to switch between different knowledge levels & perspectives. You are eager to learn and happy to share your knowledge with others.
What you bring
• You have a Master's degree in Engineering.
• > 10 years of experience in engineering management is preferred with time spent leading engineering improvement across multiple sites.
• Demonstrated successful leadership of maintenance transformation programs across multiple sites in multiple countries.
• Experience with Operational Excellence methodologies (Lean, TPM, 6 Sigma, etc...) is also preferred.
• Ability to work in both strategic and operational levels.
• Trainer experience is essential.
• Professional communication skillset (oral and written) in English, Spanish is an advantage.
• Willing t travel 50% of the time.
Extra information / Apply direct
Are you the enthusiastic candidate we are looking for? Then we would like to hear from you! You can express your interest in this role by clicking the button "apply now'' and we will contact you as soon as possible. We look forward to receiving your CV. For more information regarding this vacancy, you can contact Arzu Sayin (Corporate Recruiter) at arzu.sayin[at]nutreco.com.
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