Senior Maintenance Manager — Siegfried

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"Expect to grow", personally and professionally: At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and numerous opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards of safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that enables you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you will find a workplace that values collective success as much as your individual contributions—offering long-term opportunities to grow and make an impact.

Your Role

As a Senior Maintenance Manager, you play a strategic role in the industrial performance of our site. You are responsible for the reliability, availability and optimization of equipment and infrastructure.

A true hands-on leader, you lead an organization of approximately 35 to 40 employees, including 5 under direct management and 30 to 35 under indirect management. You ensure the development of your teams, operational performance and the deployment of the site's maintenance strategy.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering & Maintenance, you combine leadership, strategic vision and technical expertise to support the development of our facilities.

Your responsibilities

Management and leadership

• Lead, unite and develop a technical organization of approximately 35 to 40 employees through your direct managers and their teams.
• Support your managers in their development, strengthen their autonomy and their ability to manage their activities.
• Set objectives, monitor individual and collective performance and establish a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Anticipate skills needs, develop talent and ensure the transfer of technical know-how.
• Support organizational changes and foster effective collaboration with the site's various departments.

Operational management and performance

• Ensure the availability, reliability and performance of production equipment and utilities.
• Define and deploy preventive and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Structure maintenance processes and manage performance indicators (KPI).
• Optimize maintenance costs, spare parts management and the service life of the facilities.
• Manage external contractors and ensure the quality of services provided.

Strategic management and continuous improvement

• Manage the maintenance operating budget (OPEX) and contribute to implementing the five-year strategic plan.
• Participate in investment, modernization and automation projects for the facilities.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance industrial performance.
• Ensure compliance with GMP, quality, safety and environmental (HSE) requirements.

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• Higher technical education in industrial maintenance, mechanics, engineering or an equivalent field.
• Proven experience in industrial maintenance management, ideally in the pharmaceutical or chemical sectors.
• Solid management experience
• Strong leadership, with the ability to unite, develop and empower teams.
• Ability to take a step back, set priorities and drive an organization's performance.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication skills and the ability to support change.
• Good command of maintenance strategies, budget management and performance indicators.
• Knowledge of GMP requirements and HSE standards.
• A pragmatic approach focused on results and continuous improvement.
• Good command of English.

Your Benefits

• Flexible working hours allowing for a balance between family life, leisure and work
• Free parking
• Health insurance: up to 10 % discount on supplementary insurance through our partners
• Generous and customizable share purchase plan
• Child allowance: Siegfried AG increases the statutory cantonal allowance by 10 % and additionally pays CHF 100 per month
• Individual continuing education opportunities
• Reka vouchers: Siegfried AG grants its employees a 20 % discount
• Attractive company pension fund
• On-site sports classes and numerous company events
• Access to the Swibeco employee benefits platform
• 5 weeks of vacation and the possibility of purchasing up to 2 weeks

Founded in 1873 in Zofingen, Switzerland, Siegfried has become a global network of 16 sites across three continents. With a team of more than 4 200 highly qualified professionals, we take our pharmaceutical customers' innovations to industrial scale and manufacture safe medicines for patients around the world. As a fully integrated CDMO, Siegfried is one of the few organizations today capable of developing and manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and finished dosage forms under one roof. This unique combination of expertise and experience makes us the most reliable partner in the pharmaceutical industry.

Siegfried is a top CDMO (Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization) headquartered in Zofingen, Switzerland. The company Getting to the bottom of the market.

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