Senior Maintenance & Facilities Technician – Coordination and Planning Focus
Kerkrade - Netherlands
Job Summary
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
The Medtronic site located in Kerkrade the Netherlands is positioned close to the EMEA Distribution Centre as well as the Bakken Research Centre. The site is currently being transformed into a high-performance data-driven and connected manufacturing environment supporting cleanroom operations and critical medical device production.We are looking for a Senior Maintenance & Facilities Technician who will combine technical expertise with strong planning coordination and administrative ownership. This senior-level role focuses on end-to-end maintenance work management from preparation planning and scheduling to execution oversight and compliant documentation while leading by example on the shop floor.
This role fills a capability gap in work preparation planning & scheduling and compliant documentation while maintaining hands-on credibility in a regulated manufacturing environment. The Senior Maintenance & Facilities Technician will plan coordinate and control maintenance work end-to-end ensuring alignment with production priorities safety standards and regulatory compliance. The role actively coordinates with Engineering EHS Operational Excellence Production and external service providers providing structure foresight and practical execution to maintenance operations.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Plan prepare and schedule preventive and corrective maintenance activities for manufacturing cleanroom and facility equipment
- Own work preparation including job scoping task sequencing spare parts identification and safety checks
- Initiate and manage purchase orders service requests and quotations via ERP and procurement systems
- Coordinate and supervise external vendors and service providers ensuring compliance safety and quality of work
- Ensure accurate and compliant documentation in CMMS and other quality systems (PMs calibrations service reports)
- Administer equipment lifecycle records from installation through maintenance and decommissioning
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Engineering EHS Operational Excellence Production) to align priorities and execution
- Actively participate in hands-on execution where needed leading by example and supporting audits/inspections
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Senior-level experience in maintenance within a regulated manufacturing environment (medical devices pharma food or high-tech)
- Proven experience in maintenance planning scheduling and work preparation not just hands-on execution
- Strong understanding of equipment maintenance calibration and facility systems
- Hands-on experience with ERP CMMS and digital documentation systems
- Structured result-oriented and proactive with the ability to work independently prioritize competing demands and influence stakeholders
- Affinity with automation digitization and IT systems using data to improve operational performance
- Dynamic communicator comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization from shopfloor operators to senior leadership
- Continuous improvement mindset with knowledge of Lean Six Sigma DMAIC (Yellow/Green Belt preferred) and willingness to challenge non-compliant or unsafe work practices
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
About Medtronic Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an excit ... View more