Maintenance Engineer Packaging

Your position

Help build a reliable and future-proof packaging environment. For our location in Ter Apelkanaal, we are looking for a Maintenance Engineer Packaging. In this role, you are the connecting link between maintenance, production, and engineering. You are responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving maintenance strategies for packaging installations and logistical systems.

You focus on increasing the availability, reliability, safety, and cost-efficiency of installations. By combining technical maintenance knowledge with data analysis and asset management principles, you ensure that installations continue to perform optimally. Additionally, you safeguard the long-term performance of the packaging lines by developing and further optimizing maintenance plans, inspections, and improvement measures.

Your impact

In this position, you make a direct contribution to a safe, efficient, and reliable production environment. You translate technical analyses into sustainable improvements and ensure that maintenance makes a significant contribution to the performance of the organization.

Your responsibilities include, among other things:

• Developing and optimizing maintenance plans for packaging installations.
• Analyzing performance, breakdowns, and maintenance data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Developing, implementing, and improving maintenance strategies.
• Initiating and realizing structural technical improvements within packaging installations.
• Carrying out and supporting inspections and improvement programs.
• Increasing the technical availability and reliability of packaging lines, palletizing systems, and logistical installations.
• Collaborating with maintenance, production, and engineering to successfully implement improvements.

Team & work environment

You work in an environment where technology, reliability, and continuous improvement are central. In doing so, you regularly interface with colleagues from maintenance, production, and engineering. Together, you work on improving installations and processes, where knowledge sharing and collaboration are key success factors.

The position offers plenty of room to apply your technical expertise and realize improvement initiatives. You will have the opportunity to make a visible contribution to the performance and future-proofing of the packaging environment.

Who you are

You are a technical professional who likes to look beyond the breakdown or the immediate problem. You are analytically strong and know how to translate installation performance into concrete improvement actions. In doing so, you combine a structured way of working with a practical attitude.

You take initiative, work independently, and actively seek collaboration with different disciplines. Thanks to your persuasiveness and communication skills, you know how to get improvements moving and create support. You feel at home in a technical environment where reliability, safety, and continuous improvement are important.

Your capabilities

To perform this function well, you bring the following:

• HBO (Higher Professional Education) level of working and thinking.
• A completed technical education, for example in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Technical Business Administration, or similar.
• Experience within maintenance, asset management, or engineering.
• Experience with production or packaging installations.
• Affinity with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and process automation.
• Knowledge of maintenance concepts such as RCM, RCA, and FMECA.
• Experience with developing and improving maintenance strategies.
• Ability to analyze technical data and performance and translate them into improvement measures.
• Experience with SAP PM is a plus.
• Affinity with automated packaging and transport systems.

What Avebe offers

At Avebe, you get the space to build an organization that is ready for the future.

You can count on:

• A salary within scale 11 (€4,899 - €6,326)
• A fixed-term contract, with the intention to provide you with a permanent contract.
• A step up within your scale every year.
• Its own CAO (Collective Labor Agreement) and pension fund.
• Plenty of room for your own input and initiative.
• Vitality programs and discounts on fitness and bicycles.
• An allowance of €50 per month for your health insurance.
• Mileage allowance of €0.23 per kilometer (max 100 kilometers per day) & home office allowance.
• Home office setup (Desk, chair, monitor) and mobile phone.
• 24 vacation days + 11 ADV days. Additionally, you have the possibility to purchase more ADV days.
• Collective discount.