Maintenance Manager

Logoplaste; Casal Comba; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Logoplaste is seeking a Maintenance Manager to oversee the Mealhada plant's facilities and machinery, ensuring peak efficiency and output. The role includes preventive maintenance, breakdown management, and potential budget responsibilities, with leadership of a maintenance team and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate will have strong electrical and mechanical skills, PLC programming experience, and fluency in Portuguese and English, plus a track record of improving

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining industrial facilities and machinery.
• PLC programming and electrical troubleshooting.
• Leadership of maintenance teams.
• Fluent in Portuguese and English.
• Proficiency with safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead preventive and corrective maintenance to maximize uptime.
• Plan and manage maintenance projects and budgets.
• Coordinate technicians and external service providers.
• Analyze breakdowns and drive continuous improvements.
• Ensure compliance with Quality, Food Safety, Environment and Health & Safety systems.

Skills

Electrical knowledge

Hydraulics

Pneumatics

PLC programming

Team leadership

Problem solving

Portuguese and English

Tools

MS Office

SAP

Job description

Logoplaste is currently hiring a Maintenance Manager to integrate our Plant in Mealhada.

Logoplaste

Present in 17 countries, Logoplaste is a global value-added service provider and producer of rigid plastic packaging for well-known fast moving consumer goods companies in the food and beverage, cosmetics, personal care and household industries. We are experts in manufacturing sustainable plastic packaging through embedded, just-in-time supply chains. Our Wall to Wall business model eliminates the need for secondary packaging and the logistics associated with transporting empty bottles. We've been reducing CO2 emissions since 1976. Logoplaste goes beyond expectations turning rigid plastic packaging’s impact on the planet into a net positive for the environment and business.

Job Summary

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring that the facilities and machinery used to produce new and existing products run to their maximum efficiency and output. This includes total preventative maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical and robotic equipment (may include software programming). In some plants may include people management and budgetary/cost reporting.

Key tasks & Activities

Maintenance Activities

• - Maintains all plant equipment to ensure maximum efficiency
• - Ensures that machines, molds, peripherals and utilities are able to work reliably at any time
• - Defines the Preventive Maintenance Plan for machines, molds, peripherals and utilities according to manufacturers' history and catalogs in agreement with the Plant Manager
• - Executes and enforces the Preventive Maintenance Plan
• - Ensures all maintenance checks are complete in a timely manner
• - Plans resources and materials to meet maintenance requirements and routine equipment installations as required
• - Ensures the management of the warehouse of technical parts, identifying the critical parts as well as the necessary physical inventories
• - Analyses breakdowns of equipment to implement continuous improvement in those areas
• - Ensures all maintenance data from initiation to completion is recorded
• - Ensures quality of work, procedures and standards are acceptable to company values, and makes sure costs are kept within budgetary control
• - Participates in actions for cost reduction
• - Plans, organizes, executes and coordinates continuous improvement assignments, making recommendations and decisions that have a significant impact on maintenance projects as well as the business of the company
• - Informs operation issues to the management team, which may be vital to the efficiency of the plant
• - Complies with the requirements of the Quality, Food Safety, Environment and Health & Safety systems implemented.

Team Coordination

• - Coordinate the maintenance activities carried out by the maintenance team and / or service providers
• - Supervises and assists maintenance staff in diagnosing the nature specific problems involving mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical equipment and in the provision of effective repairs
• - Ensures maintenance staff has a timely response to plant issues
• - Ensures records of maintenance operations performed by its team
• - Supports a continuous improvement culture through personal involvement and engaging and coaching the team
• - May apply the PMS on direct reports

Project Management

• - Plans, directs, manages and delivers project regarding maintenance or equipment improvements
• - Defines time scales for project goals, risks and deliverables and manages accordingly
• - Liaises with Logoplaste teams, customers, suppliers, and other third party contractors or representatives to communicate progress and time frames, and ensures that projects are delivered

Who we are looking for…

Background and Experience

• - Electricity, Hydraulics and Pneumatics
• - Knowledge programming PLC’s
• - Proven experience managing teams

Technical Skills

• - Proficient with MS Office tools and SAP (preferrable)
• - Electrically biased with strong Mechanical skills
• - Fluent in Portuguese and English (Mandatory)

Interpersonal Skills

• - Problem solver
• - Effective trouble shooter
• - Flexible and proactive
• - Effective communication with the team
• - Stress resistant and works under tight deadlines

Logoplaste is committed to creating a workplace where you feel welcomed and cared for. Where you can grow as a professional and as a person. Where you have access to resources and knowledge. Where respect and integrity guide all interactions and behaviors. Where your success depends on your performance, approach and mindset.

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Logoplaste is currently hiring a Maintenance Managerto integrate our Plant in Mealhada.

Logoplaste

Present in 17 countries, Logoplaste is a global value-added service provider and producer of rigid plastic packaging for well-known fast moving consumer goods companies in the food and beverage, cosmetics, personal care and household industries. We are experts in manufacturing sustainable plastic packaging through embedded, just-in-time supply chains. Our Wall to Wall business model eliminates the need for secondary packaging and the logistics associated with transporting empty bottles. We've been reducing CO2 emissions since 1976. Logoplaste goes beyond expectations turning rigid plastic packaging’s impact on the planet into a net positive for the environment and business.

Job Summary

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring that the facilities and machinery used to produce new and existing products run to their maximum efficiency and output. This includes total preventative maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical and robotic equipment (may include software programming). In some plants may include people management and budgetary/cost reporting.

Key tasks & Activities

Maintenance Activities

• - Maintains all plant equipment to ensure maximum efficiency
• - Ensures that machines, molds, peripherals and utilities are able to work reliably at any time
• - Defines the Preventive Maintenance Plan for machines, molds, peripherals and utilities according to manufacturers' history and catalogs in agreement with the Plant Manager
• - Executes and enforces the Preventive Maintenance Plan
• - Ensures all maintenance checks are complete in a timely manner
• - Plans resources and materials to meet maintenance requirements and routine equipment installations as required
• - Ensures the management of the warehouse of technical parts, identifying the critical parts as well as the necessary physical inventories
• - Analyses breakdowns of equipment to implement continuous improvement in those areas
• - Ensures all maintenance data from initiation to completion is recorded
• - Ensures quality of work, procedures and standards are acceptable to company values, and makes sure costs are kept within budgetary control
• - Participates in actions for cost reduction
• - Plans, organizes, executes and coordinates continuous improvement assignments, making recommendations and decisions that have a significant impact on maintenance projects as well as the business of the company
• - Informs operation issues to the management team, which may be vital to the efficiency of the plant
• - Complies with the requirements of the Quality, Food Safety, Environment and Health & Safety systems implemented.

Team Coordination

• - Coordinate the maintenance activities carried out by the maintenance team and / or service providers
• - Supervises and assists maintenance staff in diagnosing the nature specific problems involving mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical equipment and in the provision of effective repairs
• - Ensures maintenance staff has a timely response to plant issues
• - Ensures records of maintenance operations performed by its team
• - Supports a continuous improvement culture through personal involvement and engaging and coaching the team
• - May apply the PMS on direct reports

Project Management

• - Plans, directs, manages and delivers project regarding maintenance or equipment improvements
• - Defines time scales for project goals, risks and deliverables and manages accordingly
• - Liaises with Logoplaste teams, customers, suppliers, and other third party contractors or representatives to communicate progress and time frames, and ensures that projects are delivered

Who we are looking for…

Background and Experience

• - Electricity, Hydraulics and Pneumatics
• - Knowledge programming PLC’s
• - Proven experience managing teams

Technical Skills

• - Proficient with MS Office tools and SAP (preferrable)
• - Electrically biased with strong Mechanical skills
• - Fluent in Portuguese and English (Mandatory)

Interpersonal Skills

• - Problem solver
• - Effective trouble shooter
• - Flexible and proactive
• - Effective communication with the team
• - Stress resistant and works under tight deadlines

Logoplaste is committed to creating a workplace where you feel welcomed and cared for. Where you can grow as a professional and as a person. Where you have access to resources and knowledge. Where respect and integrity guide all interactions and behaviors. Where your success depends on your performance, approach and mindset.

Follow us on LinkedIn

LOGOPLASTE

Shaping a better world with our partners through mindful packaging solutions