Senior Maintenance Planner E&I

Our versatile factory in Veghel is the largest chocolate bar factory in the world. Here, large volumes of confectionery such as Mars®, Snickers®, and Twix® are produced daily, destined for the global market. The machines, devices, and systems are highly diverse: from various types of process machines to transport systems and pumps, but also packaging machines, wrapping machines, and precision mechanics. To maintain our leading position in confectionery production, our machinery deserves the best maintenance to prevent malfunctions and stagnation. In this role, you are responsible for preparing E&I maintenance activities, including preventive plans and their optimization.

As part of a Maintenance department of approximately 75 employees, you will work together in a team of 5 enthusiastic maintenance planners and driven planners, and you will be responsible for preparing E&I maintenance activities for both preventive and corrective maintenance. Additionally, you are also responsible for the coordination of ongoing repairs and obsoletes for timely availability and/or follow-up.

Your main responsibilities

• You are the gatekeeper of all incoming requests and assess them for quality and priority, with a focus on people and food safety.
• You independently prepare preventive and corrective maintenance in the E&I field via SAP and supporting systems. In doing so, you draw up detailed maintenance plans yourself based on input from technicians, supplier advice, and reliability improvement engineers.
• You manage technical changes, documentation, and drawing updates, and ensure that these are corrected where necessary.
• You process all preventive E&I plans in SAP and, as a senior, foresee problems in execution and ensure that plans are optimally set up so that execution can be carried out flawlessly according to compliance. This also applies to multidisciplinary plans, for which an overview across multiple disciplines is necessary.
• You have contact with external companies to ensure maintenance is scheduled and executed according to agreements.
• You are responsible for aligning our contracts with suppliers and discuss terms, prices, and scope changes.
• You communicate with the planner to ensure activities are scheduled and executed as optimally as possible and provide structure to the work processes.
• As a senior, you safeguard the documentation regarding validations, calibrations, and certificates required to work and produce in a safe manner.
• You coordinate repairs and the follow-up of returned materials.

• MBO4 or HBO education in Electrical Engineering or similar. Candidates with a background in Mechatronics, Instrumentation & Automation, Industrial Automation, or Technical Specialist are also welcome.
• Multiple years of experience in a similar role within a technical department.
• Possession of a precise working attitude with a great sense of responsibility regarding people and food safety.
• Experience with programs such as SAP PM and Microsoft Office is a plus.
• Proactive, flexible, and eager to learn to ensure matters run as efficiently as possible.
• Social, communicative, and a true team player, who also dares to make decisions independently.
• You get energy from switching quickly between various systems and know how to effortlessly maintain an overview and the correct priorities.

A job at Mars is never just a job. It is anything but blindly executing what others instruct you to do. Here, the choices that *you* make count. Here, it is about you giving shape to your own career. You will find that space at Mars. It is your story; you write the chapters of your career. We offer the right conditions to stimulate and develop you, your talent, and your ambition, including:

• A permanent position at a global company with A-brands.
• A salary between 62,000 and 81,000 per year based on 36 hours per week and 30 vacation days.
• Possibility for a 4-day work week (4x9) and limited hybrid working.
• Working in an environment where continuous investment is made in projects and digitalization.
• Various training opportunities and attention to your personal development via our award-winning Mars University to further work on your career.
• An excellent package of secondary employment benefits, including an excellent pension scheme.

Do you have the ambition to plan your future and ours? Then click the application button and send us your CV and motivation in which you explain why you are the ideal candidate for this position.