As a Group Maintenance Manager you are accountable for:

• Improve and manage the common Group Maintenance Processes
• Coach the maintenance management functions in the different sites
• Gain external best practice knowledge and participate in benchmark exercises

• Manage the Group Maintenance Organisation Template
• Ensure internal compliancy of process: internal checks and GAP analyses through Maintenance Assessments and the construction of the Maintenance Improvement Action Plans in all sites
• Make best use of the existing IT tools to support this (SAP-PM, SAP-MM, Mobile Maintenance Workflow) and implement this in some remaining plants and new acquired/build plants in different countries
• Coach the Technical Service Managers, Maintenance Managers, Planners and Warehouse responsibles in order to bring them to a higher maturity level.
• Set up a structure of KPI (Key Performance Indicators) in orde to manage and evaluate the maintenance performance.
• Follow up the new trends in maintenance & asset management
• Organise and stimulate (internal & external) benchmarking exercises in order to measure the maturity levels and to set targets to improve

You will report to the Group Technical Service & HSE Manager.

• You have a master in a technical area
• You combine a well-developed analytical and conceptual approach whick you can translate well on the shop floor
• You are a professional leader, proven to be able to build and share processes in the domain of technical services and very strong in coaching local site teams
• You have affinity with production operations: technical service, safety, quality, maintenance, reliability
• You navigate easily in IT sustems (SAP-PM, Power BI,...) as an experience user
• You have good communication and training skills
• Planning and showing accurancy in what you like and do good
• Next to your good knowledge of the technical elements, you have a pragmatic, no-nonsense and entrepreneurial personality
• You are solutions-oriented but can also think on a tactical and strategic level
• You are flexible, dynamic, decisive, driven and you offer a high level of service
• You know how to express yourself fluently in English (both written and spoken). Additional knowledge of other languages is a plus
• You are prepared to spend 30% of your tile travelling to the international manufacturing sites in the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Turkey,...The rest of the time you will work from one of the La Lorraine production sites

• You will join an international family business with a strong long-term vision where more than 5,000 enthusiastic colleagues go for it together and are driven by 5 strong values.
• We invest in a happy working environment through various sport and team events.
• You can literally taste our passion every day, through our fresh and innovative top products.
• You help build a better world; sustainability is high on the agenda within our company.
• You get the chance to grow and develop in a very dynamic environment. Our LLBG Academy supports you to become the best version of yourself.
• An interesting financial package, complemented by 1 day home working, meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance, group insurance and 10 extra holidays on top of statutory leave.
• You get the opportunity to roll up your sleeves yourself, take initiative and help make a difference.