maintenance planning lead

In your function as Maintenance Planning Lead you provide technical expertise and leverages best practices in the field of applied maintenance planning & scheduling using our SAP plant maintenance CMMS tool serving the Beerse and the Ghent sites. The role will be key to ensure flawless E2E maintenance, calibration, and other activities execution. In addition, the role holder creates and sustains continuous technical improvements within our scope of the CMMS and its associated processes to boost efficiency of activities and ensure schedule adherence. The ideal candidate will possess a demonstrated strong track record in industrial maintenance using SAP and plant shutdowns incl. start-up.

Your function:

• Ensures the system-side of all periodic and corrective activities around our asset portfolio are correctly covered in our CMMS and the associated processes have been established and fulfilled.
• Supports the establishment and upkeep of maintenance strategies that drive safe, reliable, effective, efficient, and customer-centric maintenance operations, including kitting of parts, ownership of bill of materials, master data management, like-for-like replacement parts management, maintenance planning & scheduling, reports, critical metrics, and data contextualization.
• Ensures that work orders are properly planned, that execution schedules are developed, delivered upon and tasks technically completed.
• Plans and coordinates shut-downs incl. start-ups incl. task and vendor management for 2 manufacturing sites and the associated supply chains.
• Lead SAP CMMS documentation management, updates and improvements that support PM, CM, CBM, calibrations, and corrective maintenance plans.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement, simplification/automation, and cost reduction opportunities.
• Effectively engage with J&J organizations and partners to benchmark and establish standards.
• Lead the visualization of metrics and dashboards to facilitate performance dialogues of different tiers and cadences.
• Proactively partners with all key stakeholders, such as centralized services (Facility Management, Lab Services) as well as 3rd parties, i.e. Legend Biotech, OEM’s and vendors

• You have a technical education / degree is required (bachelor or master)
• Experience with SAP/PM is key
• Experience in Maintenance, Reliability a/o Maintenance Planning. Experience within Biopharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical, or another GMP industry is a plus.
• You are self-driven and able to set own targets and able to set priorities under pressure. You are proactive, open team player with a service mindset
• Working knowledge of MS Project and PowerBI are a plus
• Fluent in English (written and spoken), Dutch language at level C1 preferred.
• Working regimen is approx. 70% Ghent, 30% Beerse.

This is an opportunity to work with a groundbreaking biomedicine operation and to be a member of a Johnson & Johnson company, with an excellent record in employee continuous professional development and business improvement.

We are passionate about our work; we play vital roles across a range of professional disciplines and care deeply about our customers and communities. At Johnson & Johnson our culture enables dynamic and impactful careers.

Whether you’re one of the people who already work here, or you’re considering joining the team, we offer:

• An opportunity to be part of a global market leader.
• A dynamic and inspiring working environment.
• Opportunities to work on challenging projects and assignments.
• Possibilities for further personal and professional development/education
• Excellent working conditions (target bonus: 9%, hospitalisation insurance, pension savings plan, sports & culture vouchers, 49 days’ holiday, ...)

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