Maintenance Site Lead

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Maintenance Site Lead is responsible for ensuring the reliable operation, maintenance, and safety of plant equipment, systems, and operations. This role combines hands-on maintenance execution with the implementation and oversight of health and safety practices to ensure a safe, compliant, and efficient workplace. You will support operational excellence by maintaining asset integrity, minimizing risk, and embedding a strong safety culture across all activities.

Key Accountabilities

Maintenance & Reliability

• Execute preventive and corrective maintenance activities for mechanical, electrical, and structural equipment, including assets involved in high-risk processes.
• Ensure the ongoing integrity, reliability, and safe operation of plant systems and installations.
• Lead and execute maintenance planning and scheduling to maximize equipment uptime and production continuity.
• Apply reliability excellence and continuous improvement tools to enhance operational performance and reduce downtime.
• Monitor repair and replacement projects, mitigating risks and ensuring timely, cost-effective delivery.
• Partner with vendors and contractors to support asset maintenance, upgrades, and new installations, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve moderately complex equipment and process issues independently, escalating when necessary.

Health & Safety

• Lead the implementation, execution, and continuous improvement of health and safety programs and practices at the site.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, standards, and applicable health and safety regulations.
• Integrate safety requirements into all maintenance activities, ensuring that work is performed safely and risks are effectively controlled.
• Support and deliver safety training, identify capability gaps, and tailor content to site-specific needs.
• Conduct risk assessments, incident reviews, and root cause analyses to prevent recurrence and strengthen controls.
• Partner with site leadership to embed a strong safety culture, drive accountability, and continuously improve safety performance.
• Support contractor safety management, ensuring all external partners comply with site safety requirements during maintenance and project execution.
• Monitor safety performance, metrics, and targets, and support action planning to address gaps and improve outcomes.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance, Safety, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in maintenance, reliability, or health and safety within an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Good knowledge of Dutch

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience maintaining mechanical, electrical, and structural integrity of plant equipment.
• Knowledge of maintenance planning, reliability methodologies, and continuous improvement practices.
• Experience implementing and managing health and safety programs in an operational environment.
• Familiarity with risk assessment, incident investigation, and contractor safety management.

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

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