Senior Manager Maintenance WE

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Posting Date: 5 Jan 2026

Location:

Ziegelbrucke, CH

Entity / company:
Integrated Supply Chain (ISC)

Senior Manager Maintenance WE

Are you ready to shape the future as a Maintenance Manager at Carlsberg? We are seeking a Senior Manager Maintenance WE to deploy and support the execution of maintenance strategy across all supply chain assets, ensuring operational excellence, compliance, and asset lifecycle optimization End-to-End Supply Chain.

• Responsible for the development inputs of the Global Standards thru good practices, learnings from mistakes/failure across the regions.
• Coordinates the best practice lift and shift process for the defined technology across the regions.
• Develops implementation guides, tools and programs to help breweries to comply with COM standards and improve performance.
• Helps building capability in the breweries thru deploying the standards, tools and programs across the regions and participate COM compliance audits and track implementation of gaps.
• Responsible for review regional self-assessment linking to performance gaps & opportunities
• Organize, review, and approve regional maintenance budgets in line with Carlsberg Group standards and governance.
• Ensure strong monthly cost control of the regional maintenance budget, including variance analysis and corrective actions.
• Drive transparency and discipline in maintenance spend across all markets.
• Improve working capital through systematic reduction of spare parts stock value while safeguarding equipment reliability.
• Drive the “Funding Our Journey” within the maintenance function, with a strong focus on reducing external service costs.
• Identify and deliver a robust regional maintenance cost-saving pipeline.
• Lead regional OEE-improvement initiatives from a maintenance perspective.
• Organize calibration workshops to cascade the Efficiency improvement overhaul strategy across markets.
• Drive implementation of the Incident Management (RCA) Tool, ensuring registration of technical stops and structured sharing of learnings across the region.
• Ensure effective implementation and sustainment of Maintenance COM across the region (>90%).
• Manage end-to-end equipment reliability and Asset Care across breweries and beverage plants
• Drive Excellence Foundation in Maintenance across the region
• Deploy Machine & Equipment Safety Standards E2E in all sites
• Deliver and maintain a regional Best Practice Pipeline
• Drive and facilitate the regional Maintenance Community and best-practice sharing
• Contribute to OEE improvement via breakdown and operational stop reduction
• Collaborate closely with OEMs to support market maintenance agendas
• Provide practical collaboration and hands-on support to brewery maintenance teams
• Support engineering standardization and introduction of new technologies
• Define, optimize, and standardize maintenance processes
• Track, analyse, and drive maintenance KPIs and deploy relevant KAIs

• Minimum 5 years of Functional operational or technical experience Maintenance area(s) in FMCG industry.
• Experience in the shopfloor as frontline leader or technical operations (engineering, maintenance, projects) minimum 5yrs.
• Preferably multicultural work experience.
• Experience with Continuous Improvement methodology and mindset:
  Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, WCM… (i.e Carlsberg Excellence Way of Working)
• Knowledge & application of beverage industry operational / technical standards. (i.e. COM)
• Experience with automation, equipment, and cost optimization is a plus.
• Ability to lead Workshops and Regional Training Program i.e. ISC Academy (Deployment and execution in the markets)
• Willingness to travel between breweries in region and adapt to different working environments.
• Growth Mindset

We live growth mindset culture in Carlsberg, we are looking for new colleagues who:

• Live by Semper Ardens (always burning) and constantly strive for the extraordinary
• Foster an environment of positive energy and compassion
• Passionate about the consumer in everything we do
• Decide fast and deliver with excellence
• Empower, support, and grow our people to reach their…