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Affinity Petcare

Makes dog and cat food across pet nutrition brands

Maintenance & Utilities Lead

Mechanical Maintenance and Reliability EngineeringPosted on Nov 12
Full-timeEls Monjos, SpainNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience in industrial plant maintenance management or maintenance engineering.
  • Experience contributing to industrial projects, equipment installation, commissioning, start-up, or technical handover.
  • Practical knowledge of preventive, predictive, and autonomous maintenance approaches.
  • Experience developing maintenance plans, equipment hierarchies, technical instructions, and asset master data.
  • Experience in spare-parts management, including criticality and risk-based stock assessment.
  • Experience using SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) in an industrial maintenance environment.
  • Technical qualifications in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Electromechanical, or a related discipline, or a university degree in Engineering.
  • Solid understanding of industrial equipment, maintenance practices, and asset lifecycle management.
  • Knowledge of continuous improvement and operational excellence methodologies such as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Lean Manufacturing, and Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM).
  • Ability to interpret technical drawings, equipment documentation, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), manuals, and maintenance specifications.
  • Working knowledge of maintenance key performance indicators (KPIs), equipment criticality, and failure-prevention principles.
  • Professional proficiency in Spanish and English.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure project designs are maintainable, considering safe access, inspection, servicing, replacement, and lifecycle requirements for new equipment and installations.
  • Provide maintenance input during design reviews to ensure compliance with plant maintenance requirements, technical standards, and operational needs.
  • Develop the equipment and functional-location hierarchy for new installations, ensuring an accurate asset-breakdown structure.
  • Define the spare-parts strategy and recommended stock levels based on equipment criticality, risk analysis, lead times, and operational impact.
  • Coordinate the identification, sourcing, codification, and pre-start-up availability of critical spare parts.
  • Define maintenance plans for all new equipment and installations, including preventive, condition-based, and autonomous maintenance requirements where applicable.
  • Develop maintenance standards and documentation, including work instructions, autonomous maintenance routines, and preventive maintenance tasks.
  • Integrate new assets, plans, task lists, spare parts, and technical documentation into existing plant maintenance processes and systems.
  • Ensure asset master data needed for maintenance execution and reporting is complete, accurate, and available in SAP PM.
  • Supervise the technical quality of project-related maintenance interventions and monitor equipment and installation condition and readiness.
  • Participate in project planning, execution, installation, testing, commissioning, and start-up activities.
  • Support technical acceptance and handover to plant Maintenance and Operations teams, ensuring outstanding maintenance-readiness actions are closed.
  • Lead the Utilities work package within the project scope, coordinating requirements, design inputs, execution interfaces, commissioning, and handover.
  • Work with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Construction, and contractors to deliver reliable and maintainable solutions.

About the Company

Affinity Petcare

Makes dog and cat food across pet nutrition brands

Affinity Petcare makes food for dogs and cats, developing recipes and manufacturing products for pet owners through several consumer brands. Its range includes everyday nutrition and diets adapted to animals' life stages and specific nutritional needs, with products sold under Ultima, Advance, Brekkies and Libra. Veterinary nutritionists, food technologists and quality specialists work on formulations, ingredient selection and product development. Its European factories turn those recipes into packaged foods, with production teams handling ingredients, processing, filling and packaging. Founded in 1963, Affinity has its headquarters in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, within the Barcelona metropolitan area.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Founded
1963

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