Maintenance Engineer

JOB PURPOSE

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The Maintenance Engineeris responsible forensuring the reliability, availability, and safety of manufacturing and utility assets through effective preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance practices. The role ensures strict compliance with Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) standards, food safety (GMP, HACCP), and Unilever Engineering & Maintenance standards.

The Maintenance Engineer plays a key role in minimizing breakdowns, improving asset performance,optimizingmaintenance costs, and driving continuous improvement using UMS, AM/PM, and PM methodologies, while coaching and developing technicians and operators.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

M – MAINTENANCE STRATEGY & PLANNING

• Develop and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance plans.

  
  
  

• Define asset maintenance strategies based on criticality and OEM recommendations.

  
  
  

• Plan and schedule maintenance activities to minimize production losses.

  
  
  

• Manage spare parts strategy and inventory with Supply Chain.

  
  
  

• Maintain asset and work order data in SAP PM.

  
  
  

E – EXECUTION & EQUIPMENT RELIABILITY

• Execute corrective, preventive, and breakdown maintenance safely and effectively.

  
  
  

• Lead root cause analysis using 5 Why, Fishbone, and FMEA.

  
  
  

• Improve MTBF, MTTR, and overall equipment reliability.

  
  
  

• Support commissioning, FAT/SAT, and equipment handover.

  
  
  

• Coordinate with contractors and OEMs for specialized activities.

  
  
  

L – LEADERSHIP, SAFETY & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Act as a safety role model ensuring compliance with LOTO and PTW.

  
  
  

• Coach and develop technicians and operators.

  
  
  

• Deploy TPM pillars including AM and PM.

  
  
  

• Lead continuous improvement and cost reduction initiatives.

  
  
  

Other Key Responsibilities

• Support energy, water, and waste reduction initiatives.

  
  
  

• Ensure GMP and food safety compliance.

  
  
  

• Participate in audits and close findings.

  
  
  

• Support shutdown planning and execution.

  
  
  

• Execution & planning of otherprojectsassigned.

  
  
  

REQUIREDQUALIFICATIONS

​​Education & Experience

​Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, or Mechatronics Engineering.

​3–7 years of maintenance experience in FMCG or manufacturing industries.

​Technical Skills

• ​Knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatics, hydraulics, and automation systems.

  
  
  

• ​Experience with utilities systems.

  
  
  

• ​Working knowledge of RCA,PMand CMMS tools.

  
  
  

​BehavioralSkills

• ​Strong safety mindset.

  
  
  

• ​Excellent communication and teamwork.

  
  
  

• ​Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

  
  
  

​KPIs & Measures of Success

• ​Asset availability and reliability.

  
  
  

• ​Breakdown reduction and maintenance cost control.

  
  
  

• ​Safety performance with zero incidents.

  
  
  

• ​TPM maturity and audit compliance.

  
  
  

• ​EliminateLoss according to the UMS prioritization process using PM,FIand QC pillar tools and methodologies.

  
  
  

• ​Implement preventative, predictive maintenance and design / automation improvements tomaintainbasic conditions and increase MTBF.

  
  
  

• ​Develop standards to sustain improvements.

  
  
  

• ​Train maintenance crews on technical standards and sustainability of basic conditions

  
  
  

• ​Identifyand extend good practice to other lines.

  
  
  

​Key Performance Indicators (as driven by Cost Deployment Analysis):

​PM compliance %

​Breakdowns (BD Loss%)

​MTBF / MTTR (min)

​Maintenance Cost (kEuros)

​Spare parts cost reduction

​Abnormalities Tags Closure %​

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge and understanding of Lean principles, manufacturing excellence.

Power BI, Digital Dashboards and CMMS understanding.

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