HEINEKEN Netherlands

Maintenance Planner

HEINEKEN Netherlands

s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Job Type Full-time
Salary €5,772–€7,421 gross per month
Experience Senior
Posted 2 weeks ago
Senior Level

Are you an experienced maintenance professional with a passion for planning, continuous improvement, and working across multiple breweries? As a Maintenance Planner, you will support breweries across the HEINEKEN cluster. Internally, this role is known as the Shared Support Hub Maintenance Processes & Planning Specialist (MPAPS).

You will coordinate long-term and major maintenance planning, improve maintenance processes, and build planning capabilities across operating companies. Working with brewery teams, suppliers, S&OP stakeholders, and reliability experts, you will help ensure maintenance activities are planned effectively, resources are aligned, and downtime is optimized.

What You’ll Do

  • Coordinate 3-year, >1-year, and major maintenance planning across multiple HEINEKEN breweries based on HACS and CMMS maintenance plans.
  • Align maintenance windows, supplier capacity, and strategic resources across operating companies to optimize business performance.
  • Drive continuous improvement of maintenance planning processes, standards, and governance in line with TPM principles.
  • Support R&M budgeting, lifecycle asset management, and CAPEX planning in partnership with brewery and reliability teams.
  • Lead the tactical agenda for improving supplier performance, service levels, and maintenance cost efficiency.
  • Coordinate maintenance KPI reporting, benchmarking, and performance analysis across breweries.
  • Support brewery maintenance teams in capability development, CMMS optimization, and adoption of maintenance planning best practices.

Who You Are

You are a strong planner and influential stakeholder manager who thrives in a complex international environment. You understand how maintenance, reliability, planning, and business performance come together.

  • Technical education at bachelor’s level or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience in maintenance planning and scheduling.
  • Strong engineering or maintenance background, preferably within FMCG or a multi-site manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with maintenance management systems such as SAP PM, EAM, Maximo, or similar platforms.
  • Experience working on complex projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong stakeholder management and cross-cultural communication skills.
  • Excellent command of English, written and spoken.
  • Driven by continuous improvement and operational excellence.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
  • Passion for sharing knowledge and developing capabilities in others.

What’s in It for You

  • Gross monthly salary between €5,772 and €7,421, based on experience.
  • One-year contract with the chance for a permanent role.
  • 26 vacation days plus 11.5 additional leave days.
  • Strong pension plan, with HEINEKEN contributing two-thirds of the pension.
  • NS Business Card for public transport or mileage reimbursement of €0.25 per kilometre, up to 50 kilometres for a single journey.
  • Opportunities to learn, grow, and explore career paths locally and globally.

Applicants must already have the right to work in the Netherlands; visa sponsorship is not possible. The closing date for this vacancy is September 15.

For questions, contact Cees-Jan Edel, Talent Acquisition Business Partner, via [email protected].

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