Maintenance & Engineering Manager - Dammam, KSA

About this Position Are you ready to lead and innovate at Henkel, a global leader in industrial and consumer solutions? We’re seeking a dynamic Site Maintenance and Engineering Manager to spearhead maintenance excellence, oversee engineering projects, and build organizational capabilities. If you thrive on managing complex projects, optimizing resources, and driving impactful results, this role is perfect for you!

What You´ll Do

• Oversee daily engineering and maintenance activities, ensuring seamless operations, timely issue resolution, and adherence to safety and quality standards.
• Build and mentor teams, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement to drive Maintenance and Engineering KPIs focused on safety, quality and performance
• Lead and oversee capital projects and engineering initiatives, including managing budgets, timelines, and resources, as well as planning and executing process improvements.
• Develop and implement maintenance strategies and standards that ensure optimal performance and efficiency across the site technologies, in collaboration with regional and global team members
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across plants, regional and global to ensure alignment between functional activities and overall business goals.
• Drive operational excellence, using data-driven problem-solving tools to improve equipment uptime and optimize costs, adapting to industry trends and evolving customer needs.
  
  

What makes you a good fit

• 7-10 years of experience in engineering and operations management, with a background in leading day to day manufacturing environments such as chemical batch processing and continuous production.
• Strong leadership and capability-building mindset to develop team expertise in maintenance and engineering.
• Experience in capital project management, delivering large-scale engineering projects.
• Engineering graduate with a specialization in electrical, automation, mechanical, or chemical fields.
• Proficient in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), such as Emaint and SAP.
• Proficient in Project Management tools and processes such as MSP, risk matrices, FATs, SATs, CQV.
• Extensive experience using problem-solving tools like fishbone diagrams, 5 Whys, A3 reports, and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Experience with various mixing technologies such as planetary mixers, sigma mixers, tri-shaft mixers, as well as filling machines such as bottles, drums, and pails.
• Strong knowledge of engineering drawings including P&IDs, electrical, mechanical, and process flow diagrams.
  
  

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.