Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our food enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Maintenance & Reliability Manager will supervise and execute the deployment of overall leading maintenance practices aligned to production needs. In this role, you will lead a team of 5 direct reports and external contractors that executes routine complex activities to maintain and improve capacity utilization and quality standards realized through reliable operations across the region. You will oversee preventive, predictive, and reactive maintenance activities, ensuring equipment reliability, supporting site utilities, and driving continuous improvement through root cause analysis.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead the execution of specific equipment maintenance strategy for each asset involved with containing, controlling or safeguarding a high hazard process.
- Implement and monitor methodologies to improve operational effectiveness in compliance with regulatory codes and standards.
- Drive the integration of contractor partners and equipment providing support to the plant force.
- Partner with regional and global leadership to develop area leading practices.
- Oversee the development of the operational related budget to track the area progress against the estimate.
- Lead and develop a team of 5 direct reports, among them 3 supervisors (32 employees total) coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
- Promote a culture of engagement, accountability, and proactive problem solving across the maintenance organisation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
- Related work experience as Maintenance & Reliability Manager in manufacturing (Food industry, FMCG).
- Strong knowledge of preventive, predictive, and reactive maintenance.
- Proven understanding of safety systems, permits to work, and contractor control.
- Other minimum qualifications may apply.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience overseeing third party resources to deliver business results.
- Knowledge of CMMS/EAM (SAP) systems, control systems and area reliability tools.
- Proven supervisory experience.
- Strong people management, communication and stakeholder skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, reactive environment with a strategic mindset.
- Understanding of equipment reliability, utilities, and root cause analysis.
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Our OfferWe provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today: Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargill Cargill is committed to being an inclusive employer. Click here to find out more https://careers.cargill.com/diversity/
