Senior Manager Maintenance WE

Senior Manager Maintenance WE

Location: Ziegelbrücke, Switzerland

Role Overview

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.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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

What we’re looking for

• 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 full potential

Education:

• A degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical/Food engineering, industrial management, or a related field is often preferred.

Languages:

• Fluent in written and spoken English

What You Can Expect:

• The opportunity to Work closely with Regional functional directors, ISC Directors, Production Directors, MRO/Procurement leaders, Brewery Department leaders. COM Work Group members.
• The chance to work for a company with nearly 180 years of heritage.
• A dynamic international work environment with great energy.
• An inclusive and supportive company culture.

Interested?

If you feel that you are interested for such a challenge please send us your application through the link. We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled sooner than the deadline, so apply as early as possible. We look forward to receiving your application.

Application deadline: January 19th,  2026.

<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Carlsberg Group: Brewing for a better today and tomorrow

<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.