Safety, Quality & Compliance

Ensure compliance with company standards through:

•Promoting a Safety First culture.

•Rigorous application of safety procedures and best practices.

•Verifying the effectiveness of machine safeguarding systems.

•Ensuring compliance with legal and corporate requirements and maintaining equipment and facilities in line with applicable regulations.

Leadership & People Management

Lead and develop the maintenance organization by:

•Managing a team of approximately 25 employees, including mechanical and electrical technicians, refrigeration specialists, automation engineers, Maintenance Leads, and Shift Leaders.

•Coaching and developing 4 Maintenance Leads and Shift Leaders.

•Setting individual and team objectives.

•Conducting performance reviews and defining competency development plans.

•Fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and collaboration.

Maintenance Strategy & Asset Reliability

Ensure asset reliability and availability through:

•Defining the site's maintenance strategy, with a strong focus on preventive and predictive maintenance.

•Promoting a culture focused on failure prevention and root cause elimination, implementing maintenance strategies aimed at eliminating unplanned downtime.

•Supporting the implementation of predictive maintenance solutions based on asset condition monitoring and advanced data analytics.

•Ensuring maintenance activities not only restore equipment but continuously improve asset performance over time.

•Prioritizing interventions based on asset criticality and risk.Leading critical failure investigations and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

•Optimizing maintenance plans based on historical data and asset performance.

•Managing work orders through the CMMS (SAP PM) and monitoring backlog and completed work orders.

•Promoting the adoption of digital technologies and predictive maintenance practices.

Lean Manufacturing & Continuous Improvement

Drive continuous improvement by:

•Leading the Maintenance Pillar within the Lean Manufacturing framework.

•Implementing TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and Reliability Excellence principles.

•Supporting and actively participating in the Tier Management system.

•Promoting a continuous improvement culture focused on the systematic elimination of breakdowns, technical stoppages, micro-stops, and speed losses.

•Applying structured problem-solving methodologies, including RCA, 5 Why, and PDCA.

•Leading improvement initiatives to increase production capacity, equipment reliability, and energy efficiency.

•Driving data-based decision making through KPIs, dashboards, and analytics tools.

•Promoting digital capabilities within the maintenance organization.

Performance Management

Monitor and improve departmental performance through:

•Defining and tracking maintenance KPIs.

•Analyzing bottling line and plant performance.

•Developing improvement plans and reporting results.

•Defining and implementing energy efficiency initiatives.

•Promoting technical solutions aimed at reducing energy consumption, emissions, and operating costs.

Key KPIs:

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

MTTR (Mean Time To Repair)

Planned vs. Unplanned Maintenance

Number of breakdowns and downtime events

Maintenance backlog

Maintenance costs

Electrical and thermal energy consumption

Financial & Resource Management

Ensure efficient utilization of resources through:

•Managing the maintenance budget, including annual planning for spare parts and external services by production line and department.

•Monitoring and controlling costs on a monthly basis and analyzing variances.

•Optimizing spare parts inventory.

•Managing suppliers and maintenance service contracts.

•Planning scheduled shutdowns and major overhauls.

•Ensuring efficient allocation of internal and external resources.

Projects

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support site objectives through:

•Supporting the definition of plant operational priorities.

•Participating in capital investment and improvement projects.

•Supporting commissioning and start-up activities for new assets.

•Defining maintenance strategies associated with new investments.

•Identifying major maintenance activities and equipment upgrades to be managed through capital expenditure projects.

•Working closely with Engineering, IT, and Continuous Improvement teams to integrate new digital technologies into maintenance processes.

Salary Range from 50.000 to 60.000 Contractual Level CCNL Industria Alimentare 1s

LEADERSHIP AGILITY

At Bacardi we care deeply about finding brilliant talent who can bring the following personal attributes to help elevate our 3Fs: Fearless, Family, Founder culture to the next level.
 

• Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become

• Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others

• People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance

• Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.

• Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with

• Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn and apply from experience

Disclaimer: Bacardi seeks talent from all backgrounds to bring diversity of thought, agility and capability to our organization across the globe. We promote a working environment where all employees are treated and rewarded fairly. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination that adversely affects individuals or groups on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, and any other legally protected aspect of a person’s identity. 

U.S. applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.

Perks of Working for us

At Bacardi, we are committed to providing our Primos (employees) with a comprehensive Total Rewards package of compensation, benefits, incentives, allowances, well-being, and much more to meet the needs of themselves and their families. It goes beyond just Cash! The total rewards program is based on pay for performance, whereby the incentive programs are linked to company and individual performance.

Compensation, Paid Time Off & Retirement:

• Competitive Pay Package
• Competitive Holiday/Paid Time Off, plus additional days offered ( i.e., volunteer day, allowing you to give back to the community)
• Retirement/Pension Plan

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical, Critical Illness, and Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Best-in-class, family-friendly, and inclusive leave policies

Additional Benefits

The benefits /perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Bacardi, your work location, and are subject to change.

Some benefits may be subject to an employee contribution.

Some benefits may be fully or partially subsidized. Incentive plans are linked to the nature of your employment and can vary based on region, market, function or brand.

AI Disclaimer

We recognise that AI tools can be valuable to support you throughout the recruitment process. At Bacardi, we want to get to know you and understand your own experience, capabilities and perspectives during the interview. We therefore ask that you do not use AI assistance during live or pre-recorded interviews. If you use assistive technology or would like us to make any adjustments to the interview process, please let us know. This won't affect your application.