Maintenance Manager

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemistry for water intensive industries. For more than 100 years our chemistry has advanced human progress and quality of life. We call it chemistry with a purpose better every day. At Kemira we foster a collaborative and inclusive work culture that empowers our employees to thrive and make a difference. Learn more about Kemira at

We are seeking a highly skilled Maintenance Manager to lead the maintenance function at our chemical manufacturing facility. This role is critical to ensuring plant reliability safety and performance. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in work order-based maintenance systems and a passion for implementing and sustaining world-class maintenance practices including preventive predictive and reliability-centered maintenance strategies.

In this role you will be responsible for :

• Develop lead and continuously improve a work order-based maintenance system to plan schedule and execute maintenance activities efficiently and effectively.
• Implement and sustain world-class maintenance practices including preventive and predictive maintenance programs root cause failure analysis (RCFA) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM).
• Supervise coach and develop a team of skilled maintenance technicians and planners to ensure timely high-quality execution of all maintenance work.
• Collaborate with operations engineering and safety teams to identify and address maintenance needs improve equipment uptime and drive operational excellence.
• Manage maintenance budgets spare parts inventory and vendor relationships to optimize costs while maintaining reliability and compliance.
• Ensure compliance with all environmental health safety (EHS) and regulatory requirements particularly those relevant to chemical plant operations.
• Utilize CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) to track work orders equipment history performance metrics and KPIs.
• Lead and support capital projects turnarounds and equipment upgrades as needed.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement using tools such as 5S Lean Six Sigma and TPM (Total Productive Maintenance).
• Champion safety and risk management across all maintenance activities.

What youll bring to the team :

Preferred :

What you can expect from us :

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions for water-intensive industries. We deliver tailored products and services to improve the product quality processes and resource efficiency of our diverse range of customers. Our focus is on water treatment as well as on fiber and renewable solutions enabling sustainability transformation for our 2024 Kemira reported annual revenue of EUR 2.9 billion with a global team of some 4700 colleagues. Kemira is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Industrial Equipment,Industrial Maintenance,Facilities Management,CMMS,Ammonia Refrigeration,Maintenance Management,Plastics Blow Molding,OSHA,Maintenance,Programmable Logic Controllers,Supervising Experience,Manufacturing

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1