Maintenance Director

Brazil

**Position Description**

Professional Maintenance is one of the pillars of stability of our plant as well as a key contributor to the performance of our business to guarantee the success of our customers. We’re living a transformation journey not only from products and processes perspectives but also from a way of working, embedding digitalization more and more in our working environment and decision-making process. If you’re enthusiastic about Maintenance and identify yourself with the company's values and challenges, you’re most welcome to join the hiring process for the Maintenance Director position for Powertrain Production. The plant's industrial footprint consists of Machining, Engine and Transmission Assembly, Engine Dynos, and Painting serving Powertrain Production and Circular Operations.
As Maintenance Director you will be accountable for the plant results ahead of the Maintenance and Maintenance Engineering teams, which support directly Operations and work closely in cooperation with other support areas such as Manufacturing Engineering, Quality/VPS/Environment, Logistics, Business Control, and Digitalization & IT. You will be challenged to nurture your internal networking through cross-functional projects and gigs but also to expand it within GTO Curitiba divisions and sister Powertrain Production plants in Sweden, France, and the United States.
As relevant as performance the quality of your work as people’s leaders by being a team player, inspiring growth, promoting Diversity Equity, and Inclusion as well as being a role model for your team, your peers, and your manager.
Targeted Background
- Any Engineering or Information Technology & Systems degrees
- Solid knowledge of types of maintenance - corrective and preventive, including predictive, risk-based, and reliability-centered - is key
- Experience in industry and/or shop floor environment including fabrication processes such as machining
- Minimum advanced English
- Solid experience in managing people and cross-functional teams
- Assets management - procurement of new machinery and obsolescence mitigation
- Dominance on Volvo Performance System, World-Class Manufacturing or Lean principles preferably focused on Professional and Autonomous Maintenance
- An enthusiast of Technology, Innovation and Digitalization
- Extended experience in Manufacturing Engineering and Quality are advantages

Essential Skills
- You need to foster Health and Safety as our #1 Priority
- You will communicate a lot with different audiences mostly all the time
- You will manage ambiguity
- You won’t get what you want all the time
- You will need to prioritize
- You will need to have an honest and transparent dialogue with your team members, your peers, and your manager
- You will be challenged to grow and improve yourself and your teams by giving and receiving feedback
- You will be accountable for the plant results and not only for the departments under your leadership
- You will be challenged to be an inclusive leader
- You must challenge your teams, your peers, and your manager

If you identify yourself with this challenge you’re THE ONE. Go for it.

**About us**

**Who we are and what we believe in**

**Group Trucks Operations** encompasses all production of the Group’s manufacturing of Volvo, Renault and Mack trucks, as well as engines and transmissions. We also orchestrate the spare parts distribution for Volvo Group’s customers globally and design, operate and optimize logistics and supply chains for all brands. We count 30,000 employees at 30 plants and 50 distribution centers across the globe. Our global footprint offers an opportunity for an international career in a state-of-the-art industrial environment, where continuous improvement is the foundation. As our planet is facing great challenges, we - one of the largest industrial organizations in the world - stand at the forefront of innovation. We are ready to rise to the challenge. Would you like to join us?

**Auto req ID**

147425BR

**Organization**

Group Trucks Operations

**State / Province**

Paraná

**City/Town**

Curitiba

**Employment/Assignment Type**

Regular

**Travel Required (maximum)**

No Travel Required

**Functional Area**

Maintenance

13-Dec-2023