Global Head of Maintenance and Factory Planning (m/f/d)
Company:CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
Location:Harsewinkel
Sart date: October 1, 2025
Professional level: Experienced / Management
Functional area: Global Manufacturing
Department: Service Function Maintenance and Factory Planning
Your role in our team:
* Strategic and technical leadership of the Service Function Maintenance and Factory Planning, as well as the global Maintenance and Factory Planning departments within the CLAAS matrix organization (secondary line)
* Responsibility for group-wide standards of the Service Function and continuous optimization through harmonization, benchmarking, and qualification (establishing best practices)
* Development and implementation of strategies, tools, and methods for efficient, proactive maintenance management with a focus on digitalization (role as Product Owner Maintenance)
* Point of contact for the ESG organization, including:
o Coordination of initiatives to reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions
o Definition of meaningful KPIs to create transparency and development of long-term standards for emissions reduction in operations and projects
* Optimization of internal and external services in Maintenance and Factory Planning to increase efficiency and reduce costs
* Definition and monitoring of relevant KPIs to ensure transparency of performance and cost-efficiency within the function
* Ensuring internal customer orientation and promoting sustainable efficiency across the area of responsibility
* Initiation and management of innovation and improvement projects to continuously advance the Service Function Maintenance and Factory Planning
Your profile:
* Successfully completed degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering, or related field
* Several years of professional experience in maintenance, plant planning, and/or facility management
* Strong expertise in digitalizing technical processes, ideally with experience in SAP PM, BIM, and 3D planning
* Experience in energy management and knowledge of relevant ESG requirements is a plus
* Strong customer orientation and high cost awareness
* Hands-on mentality with quick comprehension and solution-oriented approach, plus high flexibility and adaptability to changing demands and priorities
* Strategic thinking ability and capacity to understand and manage complex, cross-site processes
* Confident working in a dynamic, cross-cultural, and cross-functional environment
* Fluent German and English language skills; additional languages are an advantage
* Willingness to travel
* Working in an internationally operating family business with a valued corporate culture
* An innovative and forward-looking working environment with state-of-the-art products
* Exciting, responsible and varied activities
* Diverse and individual training courses and development opportunities
* Flexible working time and flexitime models as well as mobile working to a defined extent
* Profit-sharing through the acquisition of silent partnership shares
* Other special services such as: Corporate Benefits, Corporate Health Management, Employee Benefits in the CLAAS Shop, Canteen, Laundry Service
We look forward to receive your application!
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