
6 Team Lead - Maintenance&Engineering
Key Skills
Job Description
Description
Job ID
41001361
Job Title
Team Lead - Maintenance & Engineering
Job Function
Maintenance & Engineering
Job Family
People Leader
Job Level
6
Career Stream
People Leadership Career Stream
Position examples
- Maintenance & Engineering Team Leader
- M&E Team Leader
Level definition
- Supervisory responsibility for a smaller team of professionals or/and bigger team of frontline employees.
- Ability to apply their broad knowledge of a specific discipline or advanced knowledge of specific technical/operational practices.
- Prioritizes and assigns tasks to ensure that the team's resources are used effectively and that work schedules and targets are met.
- Set and achieve day-to-day objectives that have some impact on the achievement of results within the job area.
Key responsibilities
- People manager ensuring continuity and improvement of operation.
- Ensures safe working conditions, and contributes to the work with LEAN principles, food safety and quality at the site.
- Manages the delivery of targets to ensure the department achieves its goals.
- Leads 2nd line fault finding and coordinates effective resource prioritization in consultation with other functional leads.
- Plans, improves and executes maintenance of site equipment in line with departmental strategy.
- Ensures a healthy, inclusive and safe working environment, and a safety mindset.
- Ensures that the department complies with Arla Foods' standards and policies as well as the applicable law.
- Leads, coaches and develops employees and team based on Good Leadership and Good Values according to annual people processes and daily leadership task.
- Is role model for digital transformation, works with data driven decision making and promotes a digital mindset within the team Contributes to process confirmation to support the APS transformation.
- Provides input concerning relevant spare parts stock and materials required.
- Communicates effectively to report on status of lines and equipment based on OEE.
- Completes and updates plant maintenance records complying with all departmental procedures.
- Performs all activities in accordance with company and statutory requirements in order to provide a safe and compliant workplace.
- Defines resources required, work planning and employee scheduling.
- Applies Lean to continually improve operational performance to ensure the department adopts. and genuine continuous improvement mindset.
- Embraces and ensures that Arla Digital WOW is communicated and embedded within the department.
Educational background
- Some years of professional experience (e.g. 3-5 years for University graduates and 10+ years for profiles with technical education ) before entering the leadership career stream.
- Skilled technical education/technical engineer/engineering apprenticeship.
- 1-3 years of technical and/or maintenance experience after completed training or an Arla Foods-trained maintenance technician.
- Preferably leadership experience.
- Knowledge, experience and able to demonstrate LEAN ways of working/practice.
Competencies
Core Responsibilities
The Team Lead manages maintenance and engineering operations, ensuring safety, quality, and adherence to LEAN principles. They are responsible for leading the team, coordinating resource prioritization, and driving digital transformation to meet departmental goals.
Requirements
Candidates should have a technical education or engineering apprenticeship with several years of professional experience in maintenance or technical roles. Leadership experience and a strong understanding of LEAN methodologies are highly preferred.
About Arla Foods Nijkerk B.V.
Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Arla Foods is Europe’s strongest farmer-owned dairy group formed by a long line of cooperative mergers, latest the merger of Arla and DMK Group. As a major food producer owned by 11,000 European dairy farmers and 28,000 employees we have a strong commitment to help co-solve some of society’s challenges related to food and health. We provide a powerhouse of globally trusted brands including Europe leading dairy brand Arla® and iconic brands such as Lurpak®, Castello®, Puck®, MILRAM, Humana, Oldenburger, Uniekaas, and Starbucks® chilled coffee. Our cooperative is the world’s largest manufacturer of organic dairy products and the global leader in advanced whey proteins. Key figures: • Revenue*: 15.1 billion EUR • Cooperative farmer owners: 11,000 • Milk volume*: 14.3 billion kilogram • Employees: 28,000 *From our 2025 annual results