Manager Maintenance Utilities

Manager Maintenance Utilities

Location: Leiden, with occasional travel to the Sassenheim site

Languages: English and Dutch

Duration: 18–24 months (starting December 1, 2026)

Hours: 40 hours per week

Imagine your next project: Lead a dedicated multidisciplinary maintenance team and drive operational excellence and long-term asset maturity in a cutting-edge GMP manufacturing environment.

Are you the enthusiastic Manager Maintenance Utilities who motivates, develops, and guides a professional service-oriented team that ensures and improves equipment reliability in the short and long term, balancing the different priorities and managing stakeholders to eventually achieve excellence?

The role is in the team of the GET Maintenance Department of over 80 FTE in Leiden, where you play a crucial role as the manager of the multidisciplinary team that improves, defines, and executes preventive and corrective maintenance of mainly utilities like HVAC, WFI, and steam. The team consists of 8 maintenance engineers and 7 technicians. The 2 main contracts of equivalent size as your own team are also within your responsibility.

If you enjoy shaping and motivating a team of professionals and craftsmen to perform, can keep the overview and hence manage the combination of daily operational responsibilities and seeing and working on the bigger picture and the longer-term, understand a GMP environment, have a technical background, are knowledgeable of asset management, are good at managing your internal clients (peer level), and like improving performance, then this really is the job for you!

roles and responsibilities

• Managing industrial utilities maintenance (mainly HVAC, WFI, steam), ensuring strict GMP standards for both corrective and preventative work.

• Driving team maturity by improving process adherence, documentation routines, status tracking, and deviation follow-up.

• Balancing hands-on technical support with strategic leadership.

• Overseeing an internal team of 15 staff members (8 maintenance engineers and 7 calibration technicians) along with two major external contractor teams of equivalent size.

• Shaping, motivating, developing, and guiding a professional service-oriented team to ensure and improve equipment reliability in the short and long term.

• Balancing different priorities and managing stakeholders to achieve excellence.

• Working closely with the rest of the maintenance department and collaborating frequently with outside departments, including production.

• Handling daily operational responsibilities while stepping out to enable long-term goals, ensuring the right people are in the right place, gradually improving performance and processes, and working on the 5-year plan.

how to succeed

• Bachelor’s degree or comparable thinking level in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Chemical engineering.

• Over 10 years of experience working in Maintenance.

• Good understanding of Asset Management principles and processes.

• At minimum 5 years of experience in a comparable role with a proven track record.

• Experience with Utilities maintenance.

• At minimum 5 years of experience in a GMP product manufacturing plant environment.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, in English and Dutch (fluency in both Dutch and English is required, as technicians are Dutch-speaking).

• Ability to manage operational and routine responsibilities together with ensuring longer-term success.

• Strong influencing skills and analytical skills.

• 5 years or more of experience in a people leading role.

• Computer proficiency in SAP PM (mandatory SAP experience required).

benefits

This role offers a very competitive hourly rate. This contract will run for 18–24 months

you are welcome here

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about Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

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application process

We are looking to process the first round of applications within the next 2 working days. We do not accept applications via email or LinkedIn InMail - you must apply direct to this advert.

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