Maintenance Engineering Lead | Reliability, Lean & Safety

Orica Limited; São João de Negrilhos; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Orica seeks a Maintenance Engineering Lead for its Aljustrel site in Portugal to define and drive the maintenance and asset management strategy, ensuring assets are safe, reliable and available throughout their life cycle to meet SQDC objectives.

You will build and lead a high-performing maintenance team, embed risk management and continuous improvement, and collaborate with SHES, Quality, Supply Chain and Procurement to deliver site performance.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering, or another engineering discipline with proven industrial maintenance experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of maintenance experience in mining, petrochemical or explosives industries.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and managing contractors in an industrial setting.
• Strong understanding of Safety, Health, Environment and Security (SHES) principles and operational risk management.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the site maintenance and asset management strategy, aligned with site and business objectives.
• Ensure the reliability, integrity and availability of site assets, prioritising critical equipment based on risk and life-cycle performance.
• Lead, develop and engage the maintenance team and coordinate contractors, promoting accountability, operational discipline and continuous improvement.
• Establish and govern maintenance planning, scheduling, shutdowns, SAP PM, master data and work-management KPIs.
• Lead equipment criticality assessments and define an effective critical spares strategy.
• Lead root cause analysis of significant, recurrent or high-risk failures, coach the team in basic investigations and use findings to improve the maintenance plan.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Communication

Problem solving

Portuguese (PT)

English

Education

Engineering degree (Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial)

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Orica seeks a Maintenance Engineering Lead for its Aljustrel site in Portugal to define and drive the maintenance and asset management strategy, ensuring assets are safe, reliable and available throughout their life cycle to meet SQDC objectives.

You will build and lead a high-performing maintenance team, embed risk management and continuous improvement, and collaborate with SHES, Quality, Supply Chain and Procurement to deliver site performance.