Manager - Maintenance

Sulzer is a leading engineering company with a proud heritage of innovation. Join our global team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.

About the role

Job Summary

The Operations / Manufacturing / Production Supervisor is responsible for overseeing daily production or service center activities, ensuring that processes run smoothly, efficiently, and safely. This role supervises professional-level staff and ensures adherence to quality standards and production or service schedules.

This job profile is intended for People Managers of 4+ professional-level roles. Job purpose

Lead the site Maintenance function in providing both a reactive and proactive, multi-skilled maintenance service on all operational equipment and facilities infrastructure. Responsible for planned schedule creation and overseeing the adherence and timely completion of work carried out. Increase the site operational effectiveness, improve on project delivery, mean time between failure and downtime reduction, and manage and implement improvement plans, driving Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) ensuring that Health, Safety and Environmental requirements are adhered to. Manage the team on technical best practice.

Main selling points of the job

Sulzer being a Multinational Company, manufacturing Centrifugal Pumps and having two manufacturing Units can offers wide range of learning opportunities in Electrical, Mechanical and Instrumentation field.

Main accountabilities and tasks

1. Effectively delegate any maintenance issues to be resolved on each shift and small projects to the right skills in the team, planning and managing effective works
2. Manage the team to ensure machine availability, reactively managing dysfunctional machinery with the Shift management
3. Ensure routine calibration and maintenance requirements of a variety of electro-mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems are undertaken
4. Manage the process of the introduction of new machinery, plant and equipment from drawing up the specification, to managing suppliers through to full installation in collaboration with all relevant parties
5. Manage contractors on site to ensure they meet legal and company requirements
6. Ensure that Maintenance function operates in accordance with site health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety of staff and visitors

• What we offer you
• 22 vacation days + 9 days Casual leave + 8 days Sick Leave + 13 days Festival holidays
• Defined contribution pension scheme
• Hospitalization insurance benefit
• On-site car parking
• Subsidized cafeteria
• Long service award
• Sulzer is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in the strength of a diverse workforce and are committed to offering an inclusive work environment.
• We are proud to be recognized as a Top Employer 2026 in Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Switzerland, South Africa, the UK and the USA.