As Mechanical Maintenance Manager at Ciner Glass Belgium, you play a key role in keeping our state-of-the-art glass production line running smoothly. You’re responsible for the mechanically operated systems and equipment that power our furnaces and production lines. From conveyor belts to drive systems; your technical expertise ensures everything runs safely and efficiently.

But you’re not doing it alone. You lead a team of technicians, teamleaders and engineers, support their growth, and help shape a forward-thinking maintenance strategy, together with your technical director. Managing, planning, and contributing to a brand-new production story: that’s what you do as a true flessenier.

Do you thrive in an environment where technology, leadership and innovation come together? Looking for more than just a job; something meaningful, something lasting? At Ciner Glass Belgium, we call that bottle happiness. This could be your opportunity to shape it, bottle it, and live it.

Responsibilities & Key Tasks

As Mechanical Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for managing and coordinating the team involved in preventive and corrective maintenance, adjustments and optimizations of production equipment. The work requires a precise and meticulous approach, as well as experience with advanced production equipment.

• Leading technicians and engineers with a focus on mechanical maintenance and ensuring structured staff planning
• Oversee projects related to your department, monitoring KPIs and making adjustments where necessary
• Monitoring smooth execution of work as well as projects
• Control password management and protocols within the systems
• Conduct effective and connecting communication and collaboration with other departments within the organization
• Participating in company and management meetings and then translating these to the teams on the work floor
• Manage purchasing needs of the department's technical supplies and resources
• Oversee own budget as well as annual budget preparation
• Develop cost savings and process optimization projects
• Prepare reports on monthly activities and analyze performance data
• Preparing and evaluating investment proposals including cost and feasibility analyses
• Selecting new employees and responding to training needs within the team
• Ensure documentation, archiving and confidential processing of process information
• Contribute to audits
• Perform data-driven evaluations and implement improvement actions
• Monitor assembly of new machines, moves, revisions and modifications
• Reporting to the technical director

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• In possession of a Bachelor’s degree in (electro)mechanics or equivalent through experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a management role and knowledge of people management
• Experience with stock management and budgeting
• Experience in a production environment
• Fluent in English and Dutch (both spoken and written)
• Knowledge of SAP and other computer systems
• Strong communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders, with or without cultural nuances affecting this
• Strong organizational skills and knowledge of preventive maintenance plans/systems

Why work at Ciner Glass?

At Ciner Glass, you’ll have the opportunity to help build a brand-new, ultra-modern production site from the ground up. You’ll take on a role you can shape yourself, in a place where pride, craftsmanship and technology come together.

This isn’t just a job; it’s a career full of bottle happiness:

• Comprehensive salary package, complemented by a company car, smartphone, laptop, ...
• 42 vacation days, including holidays
• Health insurance
• Meal vouchers
• Opportunities for training and professional development
• Over time, these additional benefits will be further expanded

Will you be our next flessenier?