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VALPEO

Leadership, culture, and organization advisory

Maintenance & Automation Manager

Mechanical Maintenance and Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMouscron, Belgium

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience as a people manager in an industrial environment.
  • Experience managing people and teams in maintenance, engineering, and/or automation.
  • Experience in food, FMCG, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, or a comparable environment with high safety and operational-discipline requirements is desirable.
  • Understanding of preventive and corrective maintenance, failure analysis, work preparation, utilities, electricity, mechanics, PLCs, automation, and investment preparation.
  • Ability to lead technical teams in a pragmatic, hands-on manner and build trust through clear, reliable communication.
  • Ability to handle strong personalities, technical experts, external partners, and established practices while leading clearly, consistently, and respectfully.
  • Ability to understand how technical organization areas such as maintenance, work preparation, planning, knowledge sharing, and budgeting relate and how to improve organizational maturity.
  • Stakeholder-management capability across management, operations, PPA, quality, safety, HR, finance, continuous improvement, and technical partners.
  • Fluent Dutch and French, with sufficient English proficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical department and ensure maintenance, breakdown follow-up, work preparation, automation, safety, quality, costs, and team development support a stable and high-performing plant.
  • Unite the technical department and build a team of teams in which employees and external partners across shifts collaborate, share knowledge, and take responsibility.
  • Organize reliable planning, execution, and follow-up for preventive maintenance, corrective interventions, spare-parts management, technical escalations, and failure analyses.
  • Introduce more structure and help shift the organization from reactive maintenance toward planning, prevention, and systematic problem-solving.
  • Maintain a visible presence on the production floor, address employees, guide teams, identify needs, and intervene when safety, quality, or conduct expectations are not met.
  • Translate plant objectives and PPA frameworks for technical standards, automation principles, and investment priorities into a workable local approach.
  • Present local technical needs, risks, capacity issues, and improvement opportunities to plant management and PPA with supporting rationale.
  • Remain hands-on when needed while retaining ownership of the systems, people, priorities, routines, and collaboration needed to strengthen the technical department sustainably.
  • Participate in the local plant management team and contribute to investment, organizational-structure, culture, and site-professionalization decisions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in food, FMCG, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, or a comparable environment with high safety and operational-discipline requirements.

About the Company

VALPEO

Leadership, culture, and organization advisory

VALPEO helps leaders understand their real capacity to think, decide and act in complex contexts. It uses the Transformative Value Framework and proprietary Dx diagnostics to reveal how value is created at different levels of complexity and what leadership, culture, and structure are needed to sustain it. Its Dx instruments diagnose current capability and integrated advisory then aligns leadership, culture and organisation with the company’s direction, not just past performance. The goal is to support integration, transformation and value-creation journeys for multinationals, family businesses, government bodies and PE-backed firms by ensuring sustained value creation through aligned leadership, culture and structure.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
City of Brussels, Belgium
Founded
2016

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