The Head of Reliability and Maintenance is responsible for ensuring the operational efficiency, safety, and sustainability of IBA (Incinerator Bottom Ash) processing facilities across Europe. This role focuses on enhancing asset reliability, optimizing maintenance practices, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement to minimize downtime, extend asset lifespan, and ensure compliance with environmental and safety standards.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and implement a comprehensive maintenance and reliability strategy aligned with business objectives and sustainability goals.
* Lead, mentor, and develop multi-site maintenance teams to ensure operational excellence.
* Oversee predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance using CMMS and condition monitoring tools.
* Standardize maintenance procedures and processes across facilities for consistency and efficiency.
* Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, and HSE teams to maintain asset integrity and ensure regulatory compliance.
* Manage maintenance budgets, contracts, service providers, and spare parts inventory for cost-effective operations.
* Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce failures, downtime, and operational risks.
* Support capital investment planning with lifecycle cost and reliability analyses.
* Promote energy efficiency, sustainability, and safe operation practices across all sites.
Benefits
* A challenging role within an internationally operating organization. You will join a motivated team in an informal and dynamic work culture.
* An attractive salary with a 13th month.
* 8% holiday allowance based on the gross annual salary.
* 27 vacation days per year.
* Extensive opportunities for personal development and training.
* A solid pension scheme.
* Mobility options.
Job Requirements
* Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering (or equivalent).
* Minimum 10 years’ experience in maintenance/reliability leadership, preferably in heavy industry or waste/recycling sectors.
* Proven experience with RCM, TPM, and CMMS systems.
* Strong knowledge of asset management, condition monitoring, and reliability practices.
* Multi-site team management experience in a matrix organization.
* Excellent leadership, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
* Fluent in English; additional European languages are a plus.
* Willingness to travel frequently across European operational sites.
Start Date
To be agreed upon.
Please note: providing a certificate of good conduct (VOG) is also part of our recruitment process.
About Blue Phoenix Group
Blue Phoenix is a global resource company. Every day, we recover value from materials others discard. From incinerator bottom ash and construction waste to contaminated soil and tar-containing asphalt. We specialise in transforming complex materials into renewed resources for construction and infrastructure.
Operating on four continents, Blue Phoenix teams are on a daily mission to shift the world’s mindset from seeing waste as a problem to recognising it as potential. Through smart sorting, recycling and recovery, we give materials new life - with safety as our core value and guiding principle.
We partner with clients, plant operators, contractors, regulators and the wider society to create a truly circular economy. Working together towards our mission of nothing wasted, every resource reborn.
Do you want to contribute to a reliable organization and a sustainable future? Then we would love to meet you!