Production and Maintenance Expert

Omya; Gebze; On-site; TRY 520,000 - 760,000; Full time

Job summary

Omya is seeking a Senior Production and Maintenance Expert for the Gebze Plant (Kocaeli). The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, at least 7 years in production/maintenance, SAP proficiency, and strong planning and leadership abilities.

Fluency in English is required as is experience supervising on-site teams and contractors. The role emphasizes safety, quality, and financial oversight, with responsibilities spanning maintenance planning,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in a production-based organization as Production and Maintenance.
• SAP knowledge.
• Fluency in English both written and verbal.
• Strong planning and supervisory skills.
• Ability to manage health & safety, quality and financial issues in production.
• Experience supervising workers, maintenance technicians and on-site contractors.
• Automation experience (PLC/SCADA) preferred.
• Experience in electrical and electronic maintenance preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan, monitor and control all maintenance activities.
• Develop weekly/monthly/annual maintenance programs aligned with group plans.
• Plan production programs per customer demand and drive process improvements.
• Manage workshop and spare parts; prepare purchase plans for spares.
• Support plant budget planning and participate in projects.
• Lead plant maintenance activities with production teams; conduct risk analyses.
• Coordinate maintenance with production for continuous, high-performance output.
• Drive lean manufacturing initiatives (5S) and continuous improvement.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Teamwork

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering

Tools

SAP

Job description

Omya is a leading global producer of industrial minerals – mainly fillers and pigments derived from calcium carbonate and dolomite – and a worldwide distributor of specialty chemicals. We seek for a Production and Maintenance Expert (Senior) for our Gebze Plant (Kocaeli) and the ideal candidate is expected to have the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree (Preferably, electrical or mechanical engineering)
• Minimum 7 years of experience in a production-based organization as Production and Maintenance
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• SAP knowledge
• Good team member
• Analytical thinking, result and quality-oriented approach
• Fluency in English both written and verbal
• Planning, supervising and controlling of operations in the plant to ensure continuity of production without any interruptions and also considering health & safety, quality and financial issues.
• Supervising workers, production/ maintenance technicians and all contractors on site
• Preferably automation experience (PLC/SCADA)
• Preferably experience in electrical and electronic maintenance.

Responsibilities

Maintenance and Production

• Responsibility of all maintenance activities including planning, monitoring and controlling
• Planning weekly/monthly and annual maintenance programs according to group plan and conducting planned maintenance activities.
• Planning weekly and monthly production programs according to customer demands and conducting process improvement activities.
• Workshop management
• Spare part management and reporting
• Preparing the purchase plan of needed spares
• Supporting the budget plan of plant.
• An active player in plant projects.
• Conducting risk analysis for critical failures.
• Organizing maintenance activities with production.
• Closely follow -up plant requirements for production/maintenance activities.
• Taking actions and making root cause analysis for the breakdowns and repeating defects.
• Maintaining lean manufacturing activities like 5S.
• Collaborating work with production team for managing preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance activities in production lines to provide continuous and high performance production.
• Leading teams for continuous improvement by acting in close cooperation both supervisors and blue collar employees for operations.
• Tracing performance on production level and explore opportunities with necessary analysis for further improvement projects

Project

• Managing projects according to the contractual and technical guidelines
• Planning and executing the projects within defined time, quality and budget constraints
• Follow commissioning and start-up stages
• Develop continuous improvement projects to eliminate losses and to increase machine efficiencies

Environmental Health & Safety Responsibilities

• Responsibility for documentation concerning maintenance
• Supervising to plant maintenance to be in line given specification
• Planning of training for manpower, implementation and documentation
• Waste inventory and arrangement of disposal
• Lead to Health and Safety Management System in the plant

Planning

• Production lead time planning with supply chain team
• Planning of auxiliary materials for needed production