Maintenance Engineer

Are you the technically skilled Maintenance Engineer who gets energy from implementing smart improvements, making strategic choices, and realizing sustainable solutions? And do you excel at collaboration and solving complex technical challenges? Then we would love to meet you.

Your role

As a Maintenance Engineer, you play a key role in ensuring our plant performs at its best. You safeguard the balance between technical performance, cost, and risk. Even under pressure, you remain rational and make decisions based on well considered interests.

Thanks to your strong communication skills, you are the go to person for asset management, maintenance processes, and technical oversight.

You are given the space to grow, experiment, and truly make an impact on the reliability and future readiness of our plant. You will work in a close knit team, with modern technologies and challenging projects where your organizational skills, problem solving mindset, and collaboration with colleagues make the difference. You are in the driver’s seat, and we actively encourage ownership and decision making within your area.

What will you be doing?

• You are responsible for the technical availability and legal compliance within your assigned area of the plant.
• You monitor and analyze equipment condition and translate this into a long term maintenance plan, which forms input for planned maintenance activities, annual plans, and investment plans. You also monitor execution progress in your area, discuss deviations, and set priorities.
• You manage maintenance plans in SAP and define the scope for maintenance shutdowns, ensuring careful scoping and weighing risks when considering additions after the scope freeze.
• You perform root cause analyses for complex failures and implement sustainable improvements; this is where your problem solving skills truly shine. You do this not alone, but by involving both internal and external experts to achieve results together.
• You initiate replacement investments and equipment improvements. Depending on the scope, you either lead the project yourself or contribute within a multidisciplinary team, with collaboration at the core.

You play an important role in modification and conversion projects by developing maintenance concepts and aligning them with other disciplines. Even when an asset unexpectedly fails and decisions must be made under time pressure, you maintain oversight and communicate clearly with all stakeholders.

About the company and the department

Teijin Aramid is an innovative chemical production company and a market leader in its field. We are proud of what we produce: the super strong, gold colored Twaron® aramid fiber that makes countless products around the world safer, stronger, and more durable. The foundation of this fiber is created at our production site in Delfzijl. Further processing takes place at our plant in Emmen, home to the largest aramid factory in the world with 650 employees.

Together with a team of eight colleagues, you work daily on improving our assets. You switch smoothly between disciplines, organize your work in a structured way, and actively contribute to projects that enhance the reliability of our assets. You report hierarchically to the Team Lead Maintenance Engineering and work closely with the Operations Manager, Technical Coordinators, Technologists, and the Team Leads of the workshops within your area.

Your Profile

• You have completed a technical bachelor’s degree (HBO) or you can demonstrate bachelor level thinking and working skills.
• You have an intrinsic interest in technology. You want to understand how things truly work and solve problems at the source.
• You have experience with maintenance technology and maintenance management in a production environment (corrective, preventive, condition based, and predictive).
• You have experience with maintenance management programs and methodologies such as RCA, FMECA, and Asset/Life Cycle Management.
• You are familiar with ERP/CMMS systems; we work with SAP.
• You have a good command of both Dutch and English.

Our offer

At Teijin Aramid, exciting challenges are waiting for you! In addition to our leading international working environment, we offer you:

• Attractive salary – This position falls within €4298 en €7128 gross per month), depending on experience and education. A starting scale is possible.
• Almost 10 weeks of vacation per year – Yes, really! Four statutory weeks plus six weeks that you may take, be paid out, or save.
• Excellent secondary benefits – 8.33% holiday allowance, a favorable pension scheme with low personal contribution, and a profit-sharing bonus of up to 10%.
• Personal development – Access to training and coaching programs to support your growth.
• Allowances – €4.01 per day home working allowance and €0.23 per kilometer travel allowance.
• Additional budgets – €1,500 gross Development Budget for personal growth.
• Flexibility – Flexible working hours and the option to work in a hybrid setup, depending on the role.