The Company
Our client is a well-established international food manufacturing group with operations across multiple global markets. In Vietnam, the company operates a large-scale, export-oriented production facility and maintains strong standards in food safety, technical compliance and operational excellence.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead the Engineering, Maintenance, Utilities and Facilities function, managing a sizeable technical team.
- Develop and implement preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance strategies for food processing, thermal-processing, packaging and supporting equipment.
- Improve equipment reliability, plant uptime and OEE while reducing breakdowns through maintenance planning and root-cause analysis.
- Oversee the CMMS, spare-parts inventory, maintenance schedules and technical documentation.
- Ensure the safe, reliable and efficient operation of critical utilities, including industrial refrigeration and cold storage, boilers and steam systems, compressed air, water treatment, wastewater treatment and electrical distribution.
- Manage engineering and capital projects, including new production lines, equipment installation, plant upgrades and expansion.
- Drive energy-saving, cost-reduction and continuous-improvement initiatives through TPM, Lean and other reliability practices.
- Ensure technical and legal compliance for refrigeration systems, boilers, pressure vessels and electrical equipment under Vietnamese regulations.
- Partner with Production, Quality and SHE teams to ensure engineering and maintenance activities support food safety and international customer-audit requirements.
- Manage engineering and maintenance budgets, contractors and external service providers.
- Develop and coach the Engineering and Maintenance team while reporting operational performance to plant and regional management.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Refrigeration, Industrial Engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of engineering or maintenance experience within food processing, FMCG or cold-chain manufacturing.
- At least 3–5 years of experience in an engineering or maintenance management role.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of ammonia refrigeration, cold storage, boilers and steam systems.
- Experience with thermal-processing or retort equipment would be highly preferred.
- Solid knowledge of CMMS, preventive and predictive maintenance, TPM, RCM and reliability improvement.
- Familiarity with Vietnamese technical-safety regulations covering refrigeration systems, pressure equipment, boilers and electrical systems.
- Experience working in an export-oriented manufacturing facility operating under international food-safety or customer-audit standards.
- Proven leadership and project-management capability, including experience managing a sizeable technical workforce.
- Professional working English and fluent Vietnamese.
- Willingness to work permanently at the manufacturing facility in Long An Province.
To apply, please send your updated CV to Hoa Tran at
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Engineering, Maintenance & Utilities Manager in the subject line, or click
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Due to the anticipated high volume of applications, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
