Lead equipment reliability and availability to maximise production uptime, quality, and safety. Drive failure elimination through structured problem-solving and continuous improvement while developing maintenance team capability and stakeholder collaboration.
Roles & Responsibility
- Lead end-to-end equipment availability and production support across all manufacturing shops.
- Eliminate repeat failures and stabilise chronic problem areas impacting output.
- Establish robust systems for incident logging, root cause analysis, and permanent countermeasure implementation.
- Ensure production lines consistently achieve output, quality, and safety targets with minimum unplanned downtime.
- Improve MTBF, reduce MTTR, and sustain zero-accident operations.
- Drive effective stakeholder management across Production, ME, Quality, IT/OT, and OEM partners.
- Develop technical capability, competency evaluation, and performance management of maintenance teams.
- Define and execute the annual equipment availability improvement plan
Familiar with
- Shop Floor Maintenance Strategy Development
- General & Breakdown Maintenance Management
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- People & Capability Management
- Safety & Compliance
- Cost & Resource Optimisation
- Self-Management & Leadership Behaviour
Skills & Attributes
- Strong leadership and team management capability.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Deep technical expertise in mechanical, electrical, PLC, robotics, and automation systems.
- High proficiency in structured problem-solving and data-driven decision-making.
- Strong understanding of TPM, lean manufacturing, and maintenance excellence frameworks.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/electrical/Electronics/Mechatronics Engineering (mandatory).
- 15+ years of experience in Maintenance, including at least 3–5 years in leadership roles.
- Strong experience across Weld Shop, Paint Shop, Assembly, Powertrain (minimum 2 essential).
- Exposure in robots (KUKA, Yaskawa, Fanuc), PLCs (Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Siemens), Controls, Instrumentation, Machine tools
- Knowledge of FMEA, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, SAP /CMMS tools, and preferred digital platforms.
At Daimler Truck, we promote diversity and foster an inclusive corporate culture. We value the individual strengths of our employees, as these lead to the best team performance and thus to the success of our company.
Inclusion and Equal opportunities are important to us – regardless of where you come from and who you are. We look forward to receiving applications from people of all cultures and genders, parents, people with disabilities and people from the LGBTIQ+ community.
