Maintenance Manager

At Lineage, helping to feed the world is more than a job – it’s a purpose we live every day. Lineage is the world’s largest and most innovative provider of temperature-controlled logistics solutions.

To support our transformation and growth in Europe, we are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Manager - with experience in industrial cooling systems - to look after two of our sites in Belgium.

This is a new addition to our Maintenance team, and you would be joining Lineage during an exciting period of growth and innovation, with the opportunity to make an immediate, meaningful impact.

What you will be doing

With 3 sites already operating in Belgium for some time now, we were pleased to welcome one more to the Lineage family last year.

Having four site to look after in Belgium means we now need to consider the best way to maintain them and be proactive rather than reactive, ensure planning rather than corrective maintenance, and of course, look after improvements, i.e. support capex decisions.

As Campus Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the Facilities Engineering and Maintenance function. You will provide direction and operational support of all Automated Warehouse equipment, refrigeration contractor management, material handling equipment maintenance and facilities maintenance activities within their locations. This includes supporting internal and external stakeholder expectations and contributing toward achieving departmental goals.

Emphasis is on delivering high quality goods and services to the organization at the lowest cost in a sustainable and ethical manner.

Some of your key responsibilities:

• Managing the performance of maintenance work, both preventative and corrective.
• Focus on safety compliance and related legal aspects
• Carrying out and registering mandatory technical inspections.
• To advise and initiate action in your site on the Lineage Europe Maintenance and Engineering strategy in consultation with the Regional Engineering Manager (REM).
• Work closely with the Site Management to ensure timely and correct coordination of the actions/activities to be taken.
• Administering company policies and manage local SOPs
• Establishing and implementing metrics
• Work on sustainability projects (reducing CO2 impact of Lineage)
• Review and analyze activities, costs, operations, and forecasted data and champion process improvement.
• Working on site Capex and Opex project under the guidance of the Regional Engineering Manager

Who we’re looking for

In the context of sites integration, and with our structure in constant evolution, it is essential to be people-oriented and really focus on demonstrating our values and support to all employees.

To be successful in this position, we need you to have:

• a minimum of five years of successful distribution and warehouse engineering/maintenance management and leadership
• Experience working with refrigeration systems at industrial level
• a business background to include competency in maintaining/engineering the various functional areas of refrigeration, MHE, building maintenance, warehouse automation, IT systems, and supply chain optimization
• Relevant certification

You will also have:

• An ability to architect strategy along with leadership skills.
• Excellent active listening, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Competence to build and effectively manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the company.
• English and Dutch (C1 level)

Why Lineage?

This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Our six values help guide how we behave and define what we hold most important: Safe, Trust, Respect, Innovation, Bold, Servant Leadership. We all play a position that is key to the company’s success.

Tempted? Apply now!

This posting is a job preview and is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities and job requirements.

Lineage is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.