Maintenance & Engineering Team Lead — Lean & Digital Mindset

Arla Foods; Nijkerk; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Arla Foods is seeking a Team Lead for Maintenance & Engineering in the Netherlands. The role focuses on leading a team, ensuring safe operations, and driving continuous improvement through LEAN practices. You will coordinate maintenance, drive targets, and develop staff in a data-driven, digital-minded environment.

The position requires experience in maintenance leadership, strong safety culture, and collaboration across functions to meet site goals and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Some years of professional experience (e.g. 3-5 years for University graduates and 10+ years for profiles with technical education) before entering the leadership career stream.
• Knowledge, experience and able to demonstrate LEAN ways of working/practice.

Responsibilities

• People manager ensuring continuity and improvement of operation.
• Ensures safe working conditions, and contributes to the work with LEAN principles, food safety and quality at the site.
• Manages the delivery of targets to ensure the department achieves its goals.
• Leads 2nd line fault finding and coordinates effective resource prioritization in consultation with other functional leads.
• Plans, improves and executes maintenance of site equipment in line with departmental strategy.
• Ensures a healthy, inclusive and safe working environment, and a safety mindset.
• Ensures that the department complies with Arla Foods' standards and policies as well as the applicable law.
• Leads, coaches and develops employees and team based on Good Leadership and Good Values according to annual people processes and daily leadership task.
• Is role model for digital transformation, works with data driven decision making and promotes a digital mindset within the team Contributes to process confirmation to support the APS transformation.

Job description

Arla Foods is seeking a Team Lead for Maintenance & Engineering in the Netherlands. The role focuses on leading a team, ensuring safe operations, and driving continuous improvement through LEAN practices. You will coordinate maintenance, drive targets, and develop staff in a data-driven, digital-minded environment.

The position requires experience in maintenance leadership, strong safety culture, and collaboration across functions to meet site goals and compliance standards.