Maintenance Lead

Our automated Fulfilment center are the most advanced of their kind, delivering fresh groceries to thousands of households daily. To keep everything running smoothly and ensure on-time, high-quality deliveries, we’re hiring a Maintenance Lead for our fully automated site in Utrecht.

🎯 What will you do?

• Lead the team: Guide and support a diverse team of operations managers and equipment operators, helping them grow and succeed.
• Coordinate on-site operations: Work closely with our integration partner, and coordinate their team of engineers to keep everything running smoothly.
• Optimize performance: Collaborate with other Value Stream Leads to ensure everything runs on time and to standard.
• Use data for improvements: Partner with analysts to find ways to reduce waste, boost equipment uptime, and enhance maintenance with data insights.
• Oversee contracts & performance: Manage contracts, performance standards, and budgets with our integration partner.
• Solve and prevent issues: Analyze major issues, find the root causes, and create solutions.Plan inspections and preventative maintenance based on guidelines and system data.
• Provide advice: Share insights with colleagues across other locations to help set up successful maintenance teams.

⭐ About you

• You hold a degree in Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• You have several years of experience in maintenance coordination, with a focus on preventative and reactive maintenance
• Ideally, you bring some leadership experience in a similar setting
• You have a strong understanding and hands-on experience with electrical and mechanical systems; experience with automated systems and conveyors is a plus.
• You’re proactive in spotting opportunities for improvement and have experience executing projects.
• You communicate clearly and effectively, working well with both technical teams and leadership.
• You’re fluent in Dutch and English.

📖 Picnic perks

Every expert was once a beginner! You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

Make a difference You’ll work in an awesome scale-up environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!

Teamwork makes the dream work With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

You are what you eat You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options).

Stay healthy Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials. There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga to climbing!

Attractive package We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self. And of course, holidays are just as important: you get 25 per year. Because we like to make travelling to and from our locations as easy as possible, you may use a lease car.

Work-life balance We have an office first policy (the tasty lunch and Barista-made coffee may be a factor), but where possible, we like to enable people to work in ways that suit their working styles.

If you’re ready to play a key role in a high-tech environment and help us deliver great results every day, we’d love to hear from you!