Global Head of Maintenance and Factory Planning (m/f/d)

Global Head of Maintenance and Factory Planning (m/f/d)

Company:CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
Location:Harsewinkel
Sart date: October 1, 2025
Professional level: Experienced / Management
Functional area: Global Manufacturing
Department: Service Function Maintenance and Factory Planning

Your role in our team:

• Strategic and technical leadership of the Service Function Maintenance and Factory Planning, as well as the global Maintenance and Factory Planning departments within the CLAAS matrix organization (secondary line)
• Responsibility for group-wide standards of the Service Function and continuous optimization through harmonization, benchmarking, and qualification (establishing best practices)
• Development and implementation of strategies, tools, and methods for efficient, proactive maintenance management with a focus on digitalization (role as Product Owner Maintenance)
• Point of contact for the ESG organization, including:
  • Coordination of initiatives to reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions
  • Definition of meaningful KPIs to create transparency and development of long-term standards for emissions reduction in operations and projects
• Optimization of internal and external services in Maintenance and Factory Planning to increase efficiency and reduce costs
• Definition and monitoring of relevant KPIs to ensure transparency of performance and cost-efficiency within the function
• Ensuring internal customer orientation and promoting sustainable efficiency across the area of responsibility
• Initiation and management of innovation and improvement projects to continuously advance the Service Function Maintenance and Factory Planning

Your profile:

• Successfully completed degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering, or related field
• Several years of professional experience in maintenance, plant planning, and/or facility management
• Strong expertise in digitalizing technical processes, ideally with experience in SAP PM, BIM, and 3D planning
• Experience in energy management and knowledge of relevant ESG requirements is a plus
• Strong customer orientation and high cost awareness
• Hands-on mentality with quick comprehension and solution-oriented approach, plus high flexibility and adaptability to changing demands and priorities
• Strategic thinking ability and capacity to understand and manage complex, cross-site processes
• Confident working in a dynamic, cross-cultural, and cross-functional environment
• Fluent German and English language skills; additional languages are an advantage
• Willingness to travel
• Working in an internationally operating family business with a valued corporate culture
• An innovative and forward-looking working environment with state-of-the-art products
• Exciting, responsible and varied activities
• Diverse and individual training courses and development opportunities
• Flexible working time and flexitime models as well as mobile working to a defined extent
• Profit-sharing through the acquisition of silent partnership shares
• Other special services such as: Corporate Benefits, Corporate Health Management, Employee Benefits in the CLAAS Shop, Canteen, Laundry Service

We look forward to receive your application!