Global Maintenance Excellence Manager
Belgium - Brussels
Umicore Battery Materials
Supply Chain & Logistics
Posted on 27-02-2024
About Umicore
Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Giving new life to used metals. Powering the cars of the future. As a global materials and technology group, we apply our specialist knowledge to offer materials and solutions that are essential to everyday life. We aim to be a clear world leader in materials for clean mobility and recycling and have turned our sustainability approach into an even greater competitive advantage. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?
About Rechargeable Battery Materials
We are all on the move. Umicore’s rechargeable battery materials give people autonomy and connectivity. We are a pioneer in battery materials that give added range and performance to electric vehicles. Our materials also ensure longer battery life for portable electronics. To enable our customers to produce even better performing batteries we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in
What you will be doing
- Support all RBM sites with continuous improvement of maintenance (horizon 1)
- Use methodologies aiming to realize maintenance efficiency and cost improvements: predictive maintenance, MTBF analysis, RCA, TPM, 5S, lean 6 sigma,
- Provide training for the relevant OE methods to different levels
- Follow up maintenance KPI’s of the different sites, discuss deviations with the sites, set yearly targets with the sites and work with the benchmarking and standardization manager to standardize KPI’s
- Help the sites to identify, define and prioritize maintenance improvement projects.
- Work with PDE and engineering during the preparation, construction and startup of new RBM plants (horizon 2)
- Advise on maintainability, spare parts standardization
- Feedback lessons learned from practical experience
- Participate in commissioning and start up activities where relevant
- Prepare the maintenance setup for new sites
- Evaluate TCO and potential improvements
- Assess the optimal level of automation, suggest and develop improvements
- Identify, define and improve digital tools and industry 4.0 solutions in maintenance on both horizon 1 and horizon 2
- Specific tools and measurement to support maintenance RCA, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, PI/Power BI dashboards, SAP-PM, scheduling and mobility,...
- Identify opportunities, prepare business cases, define optimized processes, describe the functionalities,…
- Act as the global process owner (GPO) towards COO operational digitalization manager/BIT
- Develop in depth knowledge of maintenance of RBM plants
- Expertise on contamination management and prevention: contamination FMEA, equipment related contamination investigations,…
- Expertise on dust prevention
- Expertise on calibration of measurement equipment in production
- Act as project manager or project team member for key improvement projects
- As Global process owner maintenance (GPO) elaborate and maintain the global standard for maintenance processes and interface with local process owners.
- Ensure alignment between and advice to RBM sites, coordination and alignment with Sustainability, Digi, Engineering, PDE, PTI, BIT, EHS & QM
- Gatekeeper role in CR flow for maintenance related modifications in existing plants
- Participate in regular QM update, EHS workshops
What we are looking for
- Bachelors or master’s degree in engineering or other, with 5-10 years of experience in an operational or operational excellence role in an industrial environment
- Good knowledge of variety of systems & tools applied in operational excellence (lean 6 sigma, VSM, TOC, TPM, 5S) and experience in implementing operational excellence on the work floor.
- Familiar with production, maintenance, warehousing and internal logistics in battery materials industry or chemical process industry.
- Good practical technical / technological background. Knowledge of CAM manufacturing processes is recommended
- Having obtained a Lean 6 sigma black belt certification is a strong asset
- Experience with change management in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment
- Project management experience
- Well-developed business communication skills
- Excellent written and spoken English communication
- Computer skills: office software (Excel, Access and Word) and shopfloor digital tools (PI, Power BI, SAP PM)
What we offer
We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture, that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?
Since this is a greenfield project, we are looking for specialist candidates to get our site started.
We look forward to receiving your application!