Maintenance Supervisor

at  Valmet Inc

Are you ready for the next step in your career?
We are looking for a Maintenance Supervisor to join our dryers fabrics and wide filter fabrics production unit in Ovar, Portugal. In this position, as a member of the maintenance department, you will supervise the team and coordinate working activities, ensuring that maintenance work is implemented on time and meets quality standards.

Your activities

• Coordinating all maintenance related activities.
• Supervise a team of 14 maintenance technicians.
• Approving preventive maintenance plans and corrective maintenance interventions, as well as requested or necessary improvement orders.
• Ensuring maintenance work is supervised and executed within timelines and in compliance with quality standards.
• Supporting Production Department analyzing root causes and implementing solutions.
• Implementing Continuous Improvement actions in mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulics and electrical production processes.
• Performing functional analysis of devices and machines during approval phase.
• Interacting with other technical teams

What you need to be successful in this role

• BSc/MSc in Mechanical or Electromechanical Engineering (other Engineering fields might be considered).
• Minimum 3 to 4 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Good knowledge of mechanical and electromechanical maintenance in an industrial environment.
• Good command of English.
• Computer skills namely, ERP systems (preferred).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, such as communication and negotiation, team working and proactivity.
• Strong team and project leadership skills.
• Analytical thinking, methodical ways of working and motivation to join a fast-pace and demanding working environment.

We offer
You will be a part of a highly motivated and skillful team who will onboard and support your journey at Valmet; together you will move our customers’ performance forward and make a difference in our company, contributing to the positive development of our product and business. You can expect to learn new and exciting tasks and to work on an independent role. Your days will vary since your field of responsibilities is both wide and challenging.
In addition, we offer you a competitive compensation package, including bonus plan and meal allowance, health and life insurances. You will find our health experts team at your disposal, including labor and curative medicine, nursing, psychology and physiotherapy services.
We encourage our people’s professional and personal development with training programs, studies financing and if you want to learn a new language, you will benefit from our protocols with language schools.
Additional information
We will start to process applications as soon as those come in, so apply already today – latest by March 31, 2024. For more information reach out to your future manager, Hugo Silva via email: hugo.silva@valmet.com. Please note applications must be submitted through our official recruiting channel.
That feeling when… everything works together is what makes working at Valmet unique!
Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 19.000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.

• BSc/MSc in Mechanical or Electromechanical Engineering (other Engineering fields might be considered).
• Minimum 3 to 4 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Good knowledge of mechanical and electromechanical maintenance in an industrial environment.
• Good command of English.
• Computer skills namely, ERP systems (preferred).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, such as communication and negotiation, team working and proactivity.
• Strong team and project leadership skills.
• Analytical thinking, methodical ways of working and motivation to join a fast-pace and demanding working environment