Senior Maintenance Technician

We offer
You will join an open, diverse, and collegial team. The role offers a very broad and diverse field of work with much variation in projects at a growing site with more than 2000 employees, where multiple production facilities, laboratories, installations, and buildings in all stages of life come together, from historical systems to state-of-the-art new construction. Furthermore, you can count on:

• Competitive salary depending on your knowledge and experience.
• 3% year-end bonus and an annual bonus based on individual and company results.
• At least 35.5 vacation days.
• Travel allowance and a solid pension scheme.
• A high-quality company restaurant with fresh and healthy daily options.
• Excellent accessibility: the train station is located directly at our main entrance and there is ample parking availability.
• A contribution to your personal gym membership to support your vitality.
• A beautiful private park on the premises, ideal for a walk, a break, or a moment of relaxation.
• Mental wellbeing support via Lyra Health for you and your family members.
• Access to a separate prayer/meditation room.
• Extensive growth opportunities thanks to the size of the site and the presence of many disciplines and global departments represented in Boxmeer.
• A workplace within an organization that is continuously growing and evolving.

Job Description

Do you have an eye for technology and are you strong at solving complex malfunctions? Are you looking for a varied and challenging position in which you work on maintaining and optimizing installations and use your expertise to improve processes? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you!

For our Animal Health location Boxmeer, we are looking for a Senior Maintenance Technician

Welcome to our team
We are looking for a driven Senior Maintenance Technician to strengthen our team. In this role, you are responsible for the maintenance, analysis, and improvement of technical installations and production equipment. You ensure that malfunctions are resolved quickly and effectively, so that production processes continue to run optimally and downtime is kept to a minimum. Additionally, you play an important role in identifying structural improvements and increasing technical reliability.

About the position
As a Senior Maintenance Technician, you are responsible for analyzing and resolving technical disruptions and performing maintenance work on process installations. You work within a complex production environment and combine hands-on activities with coordination and analysis.

Where a Maintenance Technician focuses on execution, as a senior you go one step further: you are an expert within your field, coordinate activities, and maintain contacts with external parties. Additionally, you actively contribute to improvement projects and the further optimization of processes.

Furthermore, you will get the opportunity to share your knowledge by coaching colleagues and acting as a technical point of contact within the organization.

Tasks and responsibilities
Your package of tasks includes, among others:

• Detecting, analyzing, and resolving malfunctions in mechanical, electrotechnical, and automation systems
• Performing and coordinating preventive and corrective maintenance
• Performing root cause analyses and implementing structural solutions
• Carrying out modifications and contributing to technical improvements
• Coordinating activities and managing external parties (suppliers)
• Contributing to maintenance and investment projects, including FAT/SAT activities
• Ensuring correct administration and documentation in maintenance systems (CMMS)
• Working according to applicable guidelines such as GMP, SHE, ARBO, and quality standards
• Working on-call shifts and responding adequately to malfunctions and emergencies

• You possess specialist knowledge (e.g., HVAC, NEN, pneumatics, or control technology)
• You are analytically strong and have a proactive, problem-solving attitude
• You possess good communication and coaching skills

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Computer Literacy, Electrical Maintenance, Equipment Commissioning, HVAC Systems, Hydraulic Systems, Instrumentation Systems, Instrument Calibrations, Maintenance Engineering, Managing Engineering Teams, Mechanical Maintenance, PLC Programming, Pneumatic Systems, Preventive Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Test Instruments

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11/25/2026