M

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Maintenance and Sustainability Lead

Mechanical Maintenance and Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree in engineering or maintenance is required.
  • At least five years of significant experience in maintenance management and reliability, including successfully deploying Total Productive Maintenance and Lean Manufacturing.
  • Experience managing and developing diverse teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop maintenance associates’ safety awareness by promoting corporate safety programs and targets, presenting safety events from Royal Canin and Mars factories, sharing best practices across sites, and discussing findings from corporate insurance audits.
  • Drive maintenance transformation through the Royal Canin Maintenance Strategy by aligning regional stakeholders, engaging site leadership and technical teams, and supporting implementation through remote and on-site teach, coach, and assess activities.
  • Lead deployment and continuous improvement of the standard Computerized Maintenance Management System and other maintenance tools, including predictive maintenance and artificial intelligence.
  • Facilitate maintenance workshops to standardize asset maintenance.
  • Co-lead maintenance repair operations activities with selected suppliers and Indirect Commercial.
  • Lead the Mars Sustainability in a Generation program and Royal Canin sustainability agenda as the regional operations ambassador, with a focus on scope 1 emissions.
  • Drive energy monitoring, energy reduction, and decarbonization projects across sites.
  • Support implementation of sustainability KPIs in the daily management system and coach energy monitoring users.
  • Facilitate sustainability workshops to close gaps against the Mars Sustainability in a Generation Playbook through operating expense and capital expenditure projects.
  • Complete periodic performance reporting on schedule and ensure data quality.
  • Lead site performance reviews for maintenance and sustainability using global KPIs with technical managers and site sustainability leads.
  • Collaborate with the engineering team on project design and documentation according to PM Pillar and sustainability-by-design standards.
  • Support commissioning and validation activities related to maintenance.
  • Deploy the maintenance three-year plan in accordance with the global plan, regional business needs, and Do It Best approach.
  • Prioritize site capital approval board projects for sustainability playbook gap closure, energy efficiency, utilities master planning, decarbonization, and exceptional maintenance.
  • Review capital approval board submission priorities with industrial engineers through a three-year plan.
  • Coach and develop regional technical talent and contribute to recruiting, training, and succession planning for the maintenance and sustainability community.
  • Develop site maintenance teams in line with the maintenance strategy and Maintenance, Safety, and Environment Preventive Maintenance Pillar requirements.
  • Coordinate technical training requirements across sites and help create career paths to develop and retain talent.

About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$27B
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
1911

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Mars

See more jobs