Maintenance Manager

Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances and flavors, cosmetic active ingredients as well as functional ingredients. Its customers include perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of dietary supplements and pet food.

With sales of around €5.0 billion in the 2024 financial year, the company is one of the world's leading providers. The Group, headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, has more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America.

Together with its customers, Symrise develops new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an indispensable part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked.

Symrise - always inspiring more...

• Defines and optimizes production resources to maintain and improve the performance of the equipment, in line with the objectives set (safety, quality, environment, costs, deadlines, motivation)
• Supervises the two Maintenance team leaders and organizes the maintenance team
• Ensures the satisfactory planning of preventive maintenance work, liaising with the other departments
• Ensures the satisfactory deployment of first-level maintenance and guarantees its satisfactory implementation and its monitoring by production
• Handles the implementation and tracking of requests for improvements confirmed with the departments issuing them, within the required deadlines
• Handles the improvement of, and monitors the application of working methods on site, including the drafting and implementation of progress plans making it possible for the department to achieve economic gains and performance improvements
• Guarantees the satisfactory use and operation of the CMMS software by all users
• Drafts and implements the necessary corrective and preventive improvement plans in addition to equipment replacement plans
• Handles the budgetary tracking and reporting for the department and for the investments for which the site has responsibility
• Monitors all phases in the upgrading or installation of an item of equipment, ensuring compliance with the budgets and deadlines specified, in addition to the delivery of the equipment, the operation of which should be efficient, reliable and economic.
• Contributes his/her technical expertise during the integration of new production resources (from the initial specifications through to formal acceptance) including the optimization of production methods and processes
• Coordinates the Maintenance/New Work activity
• Coordinates and manages the performance of work by outside companies
• Participates in site meetings, inter‑departmental meetings and/or meetings with the staff representation bodies as required (including the workplace health and safety committee)

Ensure maintenance personnel follow GMP's such as:

• Wear proper PPE
• Ensure tools are clean and sanitized prior to use on food contact equipment.
• Ensure that equipment and tools are clean before going from a low hygiene to high hygiene area.
• Ensure food grade and non‑food grade lubricant stored in the correct location.

Manage the maintenance program

• With 3 to 5 years' higher education (process engineering, mechanics, etc.), you should have a minimum of 10 years' experience, ideally in the food industry
• Excellent managerial skills
• Good communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• An ability to generate a positive dynamic, motivated by the wish to “always do better”
• A flair for organization and anticipation
• A customer‑centric approach (particularly toward internal customers)
• An ability to motivate
  
  A capacity to manage conflicts
• An ability to summarize and to focus on the essential, in addition to well‑developed analytical skills
• Fluent in English

Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well‑being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.

Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.

If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply by using our online application system. Your application will be treated confidentially.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non‑disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.