Global Maintenance Excellence Manager - Viby

Do you thrive on the challenge of transforming maintenance practices on a global scale for Arla Foods? Do you want to become a key player in shaping exceptional standards and driving continuous improvements, all aimed at ensuring optimal asset performance and cost efficiency? Then join Arla foods as the Global Maintenance Excellence Manager.

“In Arla we are continuing to transform our factories to further drive performance of our assets and build high quality competence within our employees/people. This role offers an amazing opportunity to set the pathway for Arla’s future in Maintenance and be a founding member/colleague of Arla’s maintenance strategy and operational excellence methodology. An unique opportunity with global reach within a team of dedicated colleagues.” Matthew Tarn - Head of Maintenance Excellence.

How you will make an impact

We are looking for a Central Maintenance Excellence Manager for our Global Supply Chain. The overall responsibility of this role is to deliver maintenance transformation across our production sites. Driving TPM and other WCM manufacturing techniques to ensure optimum availability and efficiency of our plants, equipment, facilities, and systems, including cost efficiencies.

Our new Central Maintenance Excellence Manager plays a pivotal role for Arla in driving, engaging, and influencing key stakeholders across the business in delivering improvement projects, maintenance strategy, and setting Arla’s strategic maintenance direction.

Key responsibilities:
 

• Define and implement the global maintenance strategy—leveraging TPM, WCM, and Lean methodologies to drive improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and asset reliability. 

• Responsible for all areas of engineering compliance, and leads the direction for the department and connects Arla Foods’ vision, mission, strategy and values to the tasks of the department.

• Ensures LEAN ways of working at sites to deliver maintenance excellence. Ensure, deliver and deploy long term plans to deliver optimum maintenance of process/production equipment, service installations and production IT. 
• Responsible for analysing data to ensure the right equipment maintenance strategy and continuous improvements are implemented.

• Lead, coach, develop and mentor teams and the broader organsiation to realise our goals and objectives.
• Deliver Technical Input to standards and projects in QEHS, IT, HR, CAPEX and across the organisation.
• Network across the organization to ensure alignment and best practice learnings between sites.

What will make you successful

We are looking for a professional with a strong background in manufacturing within an FMCG company. Ideally with experience as a maintenance manager, engineering team leader, factory engineering manager, or asset maintenance manager. 

Your expertise should include experience in SAP PM, with a proven ability to define maintenance strategies and operational standards. A solid understanding of managing safety, quality, and legal compliance, along with knowledge of machinery safety, is essential.

Furthermore, we expect you have:
 

• Education at Bachelor’s/Diploma/Master’s level within engineering or an industrial discipline or proven track record with a factory.
• Knowledge, experience and able to demonstrate practitioner experience in World Class Manufacturing Techniques.
• Experience in SAP PM & digital tools/technologies for Asset Care; with a proven ability to define maintenance strategies and operational standards.
• Project Management experience
• Experience working in matrix organizations, where collaboration with local maintenance technicians, operational and maintenance leaders, site directors, and senior stakeholders is key.
• A solid understanding of managing safety, quality and legal compliance, along with knowledge of machinery safety, is essential.
• Microsoft PowerBI knowledge/skill desirable.

Would you like to join us?

If you are passionate about maintenance excellence and ready to lead the next phase of our journey, we would love to hear from you. We screen on an ongoing basis and will fill the position as soon as we have found the right candidate.

Shape the Future of Dairy 

Arla is a global leader in the dairy industry, committed to producing high-quality products while championing sustainability and innovation. We're passionate about people and our planet, striving to unleash the full potential in each of us. Our goal is to make healthy dairy nutrition and good food habits accessible to all. Join us at Arla Foods and become part of a worldwide cooperative dedicated to making a significant impact on the planet and steering the dairy industry towards a sustainable future. 

We are devoted to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. Diversity and collaboration are key to our success, propelling us to new heights in the dairy industry. 

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