Senior Maintenance & CAPEX Project Engineer

Trouw Nutrition; Lérida; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Trouw Nutrition is seeking a technical project manager in Spain (Lérida) to lead CAPEX projects, draft maintenance plans, and ensure design integrity and cost control. You will supervise installation and maintenance activities, certify designs, and generate status reports for continuous improvement.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, adherence to safety standards, and collaboration with engineers and technicians to optimize equipment availability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Technical project management
• Develops technical project objectives by drafting maintenance of CAPEX project proposals and plans
• Determines project specifications in line with operations requirements, and performance standards; completes technical studies and prepares cost estimates
• Evaluates and validates design alternatives to create optimum designs.
• Certifies the technical accuracy of designs.
• Projects
• Participates as a team member in a broad CAPEX assignments, or leads project teams in maintenance and CAPEX projects
• Participate in assigned installation and/or maintenance projects, within the project management guidelines.
• Ensures successful completion of the assigned project phase within the budgeted time and cost constraints.
• Monitoring and auditing
• Conducts technical audits and ad hoc monitoring of existing installations and relevant equipment in order to support the technical availability of the installation
• Generates reports regarding project / installation status, progress of maintenance and project work, incidents and update relevant systems as well as technical documents as required.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting
• Defines maintenance and engineering standards, procedures and approaches for the assigned area, in order to enhance the quality and availability of the installation
• Troubleshoots in case of (recurring) malfunctions, problems or other issues; Suggests solutions to prevent malfunctions from recurring
• Assists in preparing, planning and scheduling maintenance and project work; Supervises (scheduled and non-scheduled) maintenance work, carry out testing and generate and implement solutions and/or corrective action to installation and maintenance problems. May actively participate in the execution of the work whilst supervising
• May maintain or supervise inventory management of equipment, parts, and supplies to ensure availability of equipment / spare parts for continuous production
• Leads maintenance continuous improvement methodologies and best practices such as TPM, spare part mgt, Cost of ownership optimization, supplier tenders in the field of maintenance with purchasing ….
• Technical leadership
• Provides technical leadership to a group of (permanently of temporarily) assigned engineers and technicians.
• Stays abreast of the latest developments in maintenance and engineering
• Acts as a technical consultant on maintenance and engineering; Contributes to the development of Nutreco technical standards
• Compliance
• Ensures that all activities are prepared and executed in line with all relevant safety regulations and procedures (work permits, LoTo, etc.), as well as technical standards, regulations, procedures, instructions, guidelines, and promote awareness, including addressing anomalies to others.
• Signals potential hazardous and / or unsafe situations, takes appropriate action is case of imminent unsafe situations

Job description

Trouw Nutrition is seeking a technical project manager in Spain (Lérida) to lead CAPEX projects, draft maintenance plans, and ensure design integrity and cost control. You will supervise installation and maintenance activities, certify designs, and generate status reports for continuous improvement.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, adherence to safety standards, and collaboration with engineers and technicians to optimize equipment availability and performance.