Maintenance Manager

I am Sara , an Executive Consultant , with over 10 years of experience in executive recruitment and consulting for top-tier companies. Projekts is proud to collaborate with over 600 clients, including (Fortune 500 companies), operating in more than 20 countries worldwide.

We are currently seeking a Maintenance Manager for GreenField

My client, an automotive OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) veyr well knowed and established in EV markets, has just entered a phase of external growth that will profoundly reshape its industrial footprint over the coming years. Several acquisitions are already under review, and executive management has made a clear choice.

Position Overview

The Maintenance Engineer ensures equipment reliability, maintainability and availability across all four Powertrain APUs — Stator & Rotor, Inverter & Battery, Powertrain Assembly, and Dyno Technology & Testing. Rather than being dedicated to a single line, this role is a shared resource deployed flexibly wherever ramp-up needs are highest, establishing maintenance standards from commissioning through serial production, driving preventive and predictive maintenance, and developing the local maintenance capability required for stable operations plant-wide.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance & Reliability Strategy

• Define preventive, predictive and autonomous maintenance routines across all APUs.
• Establish equipment handover, maintenance standards and critical spare-parts requirements.
• Deploy TPM / reliability routines and maintenance performance tracking plant-wide.

Commissioning & Equipment Handover

• Support FAT/SAT, installation, commissioning and maintainability verification across lines.
• Ensure documentation, spares, PM plans and technical acceptance are complete before handover.

Breakdown Elimination & Continuous Improvement

• Lead troubleshooting and permanent corrective actions for recurring failures on any line.
• Drive equipment uptime, MTBF and MTTR improvement across the four APUs.
• Partner with Process and Automation teams to eliminate chronic losses.

Cross-APU Prioritization

• Flex support across APUs based on real-time ramp-up priority, breakdown severity and launch schedule.
• Maintain visibility of equipment condition and open maintenance issues across all four lines.

Technical Scope — By APU

APU 1 — Stator & Rotor

• Winding/forming equipment, impregnation/curing systems, balancing machines and presses.

APU 2 — Inverter & Battery

• HV assembly equipment, dispensing/sealing systems, torque tools and test equipment.
• Safe maintenance practices for high-voltage manufacturing equipment.

APU 3 — Powertrain Assembly

• Robots, conveyors, presses, torque systems, leak testers and material handling.

APU 4 — Dyno Technology & Testing

• Dynamometers, cooling/conditioning systems, sensors, instrumentation and test racks.
• Calibration support and utility reliability.

Across all APUs: preventive/predictive maintenance, TPM, MTBF/MTTR, spare-parts strategy, equipment availability and rapid breakdown recovery during ramp-up.

Capability Transfer

• Train local technicians and build structured troubleshooting capability across all four APUs.
• Develop skills matrices and certification requirements for maintenance ownership plant-wide.

Skills

• Strong TPM / RCM, preventive and predictive maintenance knowledge.
• Advanced troubleshooting across automated manufacturing equipment of different types.
• Strong reliability analysis, MTBF / MTTR and spare-parts discipline.
• Working knowledge of CMMS such as SAP PM, Maximo or equivalent.
• Ability to prioritize and reallocate effort across multiple lines under changing operational pressure.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or related Engineering discipline.
• 5-8+ years automotive / EV maintenance or reliability experience.
• Hands-on commissioning, equipment handover and ramp-up experience.
• Broad maintenance experience spanning multiple production technologies (e.g. stator/rotor, HV/battery, robotic assembly, or test/dyno systems) is a strong asset.
• Fluent English required.

Preferred Profile

A versatile, reliability-focused maintenance engineer who can establish the maintenance system across all four APUs, stabilize equipment performance during ramp-up wherever it is needed most, and build strong local technical capability plant-wide — rather than being anchored to a single line.

What is being offered

Competitive compensation commensurate with the stakes, a real and openly stated path toward regional leadership, and the rare opportunity to build your own industrial footprint rather than take over someone else's. Added to that are an environment where initiative is expected and rewarded, and flexible working conditions that recognize the importance of your personal balance.

Why take this step of your career with Projekts

Projekts today supports more than six hundred industrial clients across more than twenty countries, among them Fortune 500 groups. That footprint gives us a concrete reading of executive markets across three continents, and a precise understanding of what separates an appealing promise from a genuine career opportunity.

Our approach rests on a simple principle: we take the time to understand in depth the challenges facing our clients and the aspirations of our candidates, because an executive placement only succeeds when both trajectories truly meet. We never present a position without having measured its solidity ourselves, and we support every candidate throughout the process, through to taking up the role and beyond.

If this mandate matches what you are seeking for the next stage of your career, I would be glad to discuss it with you directly. All applications are treated in the strictest confidence