Team Leader Technical Maintenance Slaughterhouse Operations

Give your career a fresh boost and combine your passion for technology with the world of food!

Do you enjoy working in an interface role and ensuring with your expertise, experience and foresight that production and technology work smoothly together and the operation runs at all times? Are you a communication talent and can motivate and support your team thanks to your upbeat manner? Do you like variety and are you keen to engage in projects to further develop processes and operations alongside your daily tasks?

Your tasks

• Overall responsibility for the technical infrastructure as well as ensuring high equipment availability in slaughterhouse operations
• Technical and personnel management as well as further development of the maintenance team including deployment, resource and absence planning
• Ensuring reliable operation of all technical equipment through maintenance, upkeep and rapid as well as sustainable fault rectification
• Carrying out and monitoring technical inspections, especially in the areas of occupational safety, operational safety and legal requirements
• Active co-responsibility for reducing downtime and stoppages through preventive maintenance strategies and continuous optimisation
• Ensuring procurement and availability of spare parts
• Coordination and support of external partners, suppliers and fitters including planning and monitoring of external work
• Ensuring clean, complete and comprehensible documentation of all maintenance work as well as maintenance and management of our maintenance system
• Active support and participation in technical projects as well as in conversions, expansions and optimisations of equipment and infrastructure for the technical development of the operation

Depending on profile, experience and personal development, there is also the possibility to deputise for the Head of Operational Maintenance and thus take on additional responsibility at the departmental level.

Your profile

• Completed technical basic training with further advanced training in maintenance
• Several years of leadership and professional experience in a comparable role, preferably in an industrial production environment or in the food industry
• Experience in managing technical projects as well as dealing with investments and continuous improvement processes
• Strong organisational and analytical skills combined with an entrepreneurial and economic mindset
• High decision-making and assertiveness skills as well as a solution-oriented, structured and resilient working style
• No sensitivities to blood or strong odours
• Confident handling of maintenance and ERP systems, SAP an advantage
• Fluent German and good English skills

What we offer

• You will benefit from at least 25 days of holiday. In addition, we have electronic time recording, so you can compensate your overtime with additional days off.
• Culinary delights are important to us: freshly prepared meals in our staff restaurant, a lunch menu including soup and salad, water & tea and free fruit as well as high-quality products at heavily reduced prices await you in our outlet.
• Benefit from convenient public transport connections, attractive subsidies for tickets and ample parking spaces in the car park.
• Expand your knowledge through extensive training offers, high-quality courses at the Coop Education Centre and diverse personal development opportunities.
• Your well-being is important to us: benefit from our health management, attendance bonus, discounted Reka checks, exclusive employee discounts and subsidised fitness subscriptions – for health and leisure enjoyment.
• Secure your future with our above-average pension scheme, receive anniversary bonuses, Christmas bonuses and attractive bonuses for employee referrals. In addition, you will receive the Coop staff discount card and we cover two-thirds of your pension fund contributions!
• Shape your working hours flexibly with part-time models and experience an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued and promoted!