Maintenance Manager

Coca-Cola Beverages Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei; Nilai; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Beverages Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei maintenance team in Malaysia's Negeri Sembilan region is seeking a Maintenance Manager. You will lead all maintenance and asset reliability activities to maximise equipment availability and production continuity.

You will drive continuous improvement, oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective programs, manage budgets and capital projects, and develop the capabilities of the maintenance workforce while ensuring safety, quality, and GMP

Qualifications

• Minimum 5–7 years of maintenance experience in FMCG or manufacturing.
• At least 3–5 years in a leadership or supervisory role.
• Proven expertise in preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.
• Hands-on experience with production equipment, utilities, and packaging lines.
• Experience leading plant shutdowns and capital projects.
• Strong track record in reducing downtime and improving reliability.
• Experience with SAP PM or CMMS systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance to maximise equipment reliability.
• Develop and mentor maintenance technicians, contractors, and support staff.
• Drive breakdown analysis and RCA to improve maintenance actions.
• Plan major shutdowns, overhauls, and capital projects.
• Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts, and contracts.
• Monitor KPIs, downtime trends, and maintenance effectiveness.
• Provide technical leadership for complex equipment failures with minimal production impact.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with GMP, safety, and SOP standards.

Skills

Maintenance management

People leadership

Preventive maintenance

Predictive maintenance

SAP PM

CMMS systems

Budgeting and cost control

Engineering oversight

Tools

SAP PM

CMMS

Job description

The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers worldwide for over 135 years. Our unrivaled portfolio includes more than 500 sparkling and still brands and more than 3,800 beverage choices, with iconic brands such as Coca-Cola, Sprite, Minute Maid, Schweppes, FuzeTea, Monster, and Fanta.

With over 1,500 employees, Coca-Cola Beverages Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei is a complex and well-developed organization that produces, sells, and distributes the Coca-Cola Company products across the country. Our world-class manufacturing plant in Halal Park, Bandar Enstek in Negeri Sembilan serves as our Halal production hub for Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei.

About The Role

Department: Maintenance

Reports to: Head of Manufacturing

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance and asset reliability activities within the manufacturing facility to ensure maximum equipment availability, operational efficiency, and production continuity. This role oversees preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs while managing maintenance personnel, contractors, budgets, and capital projects.

The incumbent will drive continuous improvement initiatives, equipment reliability strategies, breakdown analysis, and operational excellence programs to improve plant performance. In addition, the role is accountable for ensuring compliance with safety, quality, engineering, and maintenance standards while developing the technical capabilities of the maintenance team.

The Maintenance Manager plays a critical role in supporting manufacturing operations by minimizing downtime, optimizing maintenance costs, leading major shutdowns and overhauls, and delivering sustainable improvements in equipment reliability and productivity.

What You'll Do

• Lead and coordinate all preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities to ensure optimal equipment reliability, availability, and operational performance.
• Manage and develop maintenance technicians, contractors, and support personnel through coaching, performance management, capability development, and succession planning.
• Drive equipment reliability and continuous improvement initiatives through structured breakdown analysis, root cause investigations, maintenance optimization, and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Plan, organize, and execute major shutdowns, overhauls, retrofits, and maintenance projects while ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Manage maintenance operating and capital expenditure budgets, including spare parts, contract labor, equipment upgrades, and replacement programs.
• Monitor and analyze maintenance KPIs, equipment performance, downtime trends, and maintenance effectiveness, implementing corrective actions were required to achieve operational targets.
• Provide technical leadership and fourth-line support for complex equipment failures, ensuring issues are investigated thoroughly and resolved with minimal impact on production.
• Ensure all maintenance activities are executed in accordance with engineering standards, SOPs, safety requirements, GMP standards, and company policies.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and supply chain teams to resolve operational challenges, improve plant performance, and support business objectives.
• Lead operational excellence initiatives through the application of Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, RCA, BPS, and other continuous improvement methodologies to enhance productivity, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure proper maintenance documentation, SAP PM utilization, reporting, and record management to support compliance, planning, and decision-making processes.
• Foster a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement while maintaining high standards of housekeeping and workplace organization.

What You Bring

• Minimum 5-7 years of maintenance experience within FMCG, food & beverage or manufacturing environments.
• At least 3–5 years in a leadership or supervisory role, managing maintenance technicians and contractors.
• Proven experience in preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance management.
• Hands-on experience managing production equipment, utilities, packaging lines, fillers, conveyors, pumps, compressors, boilers, or process systems.
• Experience leading plant shutdowns, overhauls, equipment upgrades, and capital projects.
• Strong track record in reducing downtime and improving equipment reliability.
• Experience using SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) or equivalent CMMS systems.
• Familiarity with maintenance budgeting, cost control, and spare parts management.
• Strong understanding of GMP, food safety, quality systems, and EHS requirements.

Our Purpose & Growth Behaviour

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We focus on five key behaviours – curious, empowered, inclusive, agile, and corporate entrepreneurship – and value how we work as much as what we achieve.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.