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VALPEO

Leadership, culture, and organization advisory

Process Technology Manager

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
West Flanders, Belgium+1 moreMore locations: East Flanders, Belgium
HybridSeveral days per week at production sites in Belgium and France.
Manufacturing & Process EngineeringManufacturing Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • You must have an industrial engineering degree, preferably in electromechanics, automation, or a related technical field.
  • You must have experience in a production environment, such as food, fast-moving consumer goods, automotive, manufacturing, or process industry.
  • You must have affinity with machines, installations, automation, and production processes, and be able to translate technical opportunities into concrete improvement initiatives.
  • You must be comfortable in a role without hierarchical responsibility and influence others through expertise, persuasion, credibility, and maturity.
  • You must combine entrepreneurship with structure, identify opportunities, take initiative, work independently, and consistently deliver projects.
  • You must be able to work across shop-floor teams, technical experts, plant management, and external suppliers, connecting diverse stakeholders around shared objectives.
  • You must be fluent in Dutch and French; English is an advantage.
  • You must be comfortable in a mobile role, attending multiple sites in Belgium and France several days per week.
Responsibilities
  • Identify opportunities to optimize production processes, installations, and working methods in automation, efficiency, quality, capacity, ergonomics, sustainability, and cost control.
  • Analyze technical and operational challenges across sites and translate them into concrete improvement and investment projects.
  • Develop business cases and support investment proposals with technical analyses, capacity calculations, cost-benefit analyses, and return-on-investment calculations.
  • Investigate new technologies, machines, automation solutions, and production methods, and assess their value to the organization.
  • Develop projects from concept through implementation, including initial analysis, supplier selection, test follow-up, start-up, and commissioning.
  • Coordinate with plant managers, controllers, maintenance, operations, and suppliers to build support and successfully deliver projects.
  • Support sites with complex technical questions and help develop best practices, standards, and knowledge sharing across Belgium and France.
  • Attend production sites regularly and understand how technology decisions affect day-to-day production, employees, and customers.
Desired Qualifications
  • English language skills are an advantage.

About the company

VALPEO provides diagnostic tools and advisory services to help leaders align leadership, culture and organizational structure with strategic direction in complex environments. Its Transformative Value Framework and proprietary Dx instruments reveal how value is created across different levels of complexity and what kind of leadership and culture are needed to sustain it. It works with multinationals, family businesses, government bodies and PE-backed firms on integration, transformation and value-creation journeys. The company aims to help organizations understand and enhance their real capacity to think, decide and act under complexity to achieve lasting value.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

City of Brussels, Belgium

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • VALPEO won Best Executive Search Firm in July 2026, strengthening deal credibility.
  • The company’s multi-country footprint supports cross-border mandates without heavy fixed infrastructure.
  • LinkedIn lists 3912 followers and multiple offices, signaling brand reach beyond Belgium.

What critics are saying

  • No funding disclosure suggests a bootstrapped services business with limited growth capital.
  • Eleven to fifty employees creates key-person risk if partners leave in 2026.
  • Big consultancies and search firms can bundle offerings and compress VALPEO pricing quickly.

What makes VALPEO unique

  • VALPEO combines executive search, assessment, coaching, and organization design in one advisory shop.
  • The firm won Best Executive Search Firm at HR Excellence Awards Belgium 2026.
  • Its partner network spans Brussels, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Nairobi, Paris, and Neuchâtel.

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Benefits

Performance Bonus