Senior Manager Maintenance WE

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Are you ready to shape the future as a Maintenance Manager at Carlsberg? We are seeking a Senior Manager Maintenance WE to deploy and support the execution of maintenance strategy across all supply chain assets, ensuring operational excellence, compliance, and asset lifecycle optimization within the End-to-End Supply Chain.

• Responsible for the development inputs of the Global Standards through good practices, learnings from mistakes/failures across the regions.
• Coordinates the best practice lift and shift process for the defined technology across the regions.
• Develops implementation guides, tools and programs to help breweries comply with COM standards and improve performance.
• Helps build capability in the breweries through deploying the standards, tools and programs across the regions and participate COM compliance audits and track implementation of gaps.
• Responsible for review regional self‑assessment linking to performance gaps & opportunities.
• Organise, review, and approve regional maintenance budgets in line with Carlsberg Group standards and governance.
• Ensure strong monthly cost control of the regional maintenance budget, including variance analysis and corrective actions.
• Drive transparency and discipline in maintenance spend across all markets.
• Improve working capital through systematic reduction of spare parts stock value while safeguarding equipment reliability.
• Drive the “Funding Our Journey” within the maintenance function, with a strong focus on reducing external service costs.
• Identify and deliver a robust regional maintenance cost‑saving pipeline.
• Lead regional OEE‑improvement initiatives from a maintenance perspective.
• Organise calibration workshops to cascade the Efficiency improvement overhaul strategy across markets.
• Drive implementation of the Incident Management (RCA) Tool, ensuring registration of technical stops and structured sharing of learnings across the region.
• Ensure effective implementation and sustainment of Maintenance COM across the region (>90%).
• Manage end‑to‑end equipment reliability and Asset Care across breweries and beverage plants.
• Drive Excellence Foundation in Maintenance across the region.
• Deploy Machine & Equipment Safety Standards E2E in all sites.
• Deliver and maintain a regional Best Practice Pipeline.
• Drive and facilitate the regional Maintenance Community and best‑practice sharing.
• Contribute to OEE improvement via breakdown and operational stop reduction.
• Collaborate closely with OEMs to support market maintenance agendas.
• Provide practical collaboration and hands‑on support to brewery maintenance teams.
• Support engineering standardisation and introduction of new technologies.
• Define, optimise, and standardise maintenance processes.
• Track, analyse, and drive maintenance KPIs and deploy relevant KAIs.

• Minimum 5 years of functional operational or technical experience in the maintenance area(s) within the FMCG industry.
• Experience in the shop floor as frontline leader or technical operations (engineering, maintenance, projects) minimum 5 years.
• Preferably multicultural work experience.
• Experience with Continuous Improvement methodology and mindset:
  Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, WCM… (Carlsberg Excellence Way of Working).
• Knowledge and application of beverage industry operational/technical standards (COM).
• Experience with automation, equipment, and cost optimisation is a plus.
• Ability to lead workshops and regional training program (e.g. ISC Academy) deployment and execution in the markets.
• Willingness to travel between breweries in the region and adapt to different working environments.
• Growth mindset.

• A degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Food engineering, industrial management, or a related field is often preferred.
Languages
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
What You Can Expect
• The opportunity to work closely with Regional functional directors, ISC Directors, Production Directors, MRO/Procurement leaders, Brewery Department leaders, and COM Work Group members.
• The chance to work for a company with nearly 180 years of…