Technical Manager Technical Operations & Quality
For a family-owned manufacturer near Mechelen that sells its products worldwide and builds a large part of its own machines, we're looking for a Technical Manager. You lead the Technical Operations & Quality department: the technical service, engineering and quality, directly or through key people. You report to the operations director and take maintenance from reactive to planned work. In Mechelen you build a structured technical organisation that brings production, engineering and quality together.
What you'll do
- Build a clear technical organisation with well-defined roles and expectations, and let people grow in autonomy and ownership
- Professionalise maintenance: preventive maintenance per machine group, structured corrective maintenance, breakdown logging and critical spare parts
- Manage the reliability of the machine park as strategic capital and draw up a roadmap for upgrades, retrofits, rebuilds or replacement
- Keep one overview of technical projects, maintenance, improvement and quality actions, with clear owners, scope, timing and capacity
- Translate the needs of production, product management and quality into technical priorities, and follow up machine modifications and external partners
- Steer quality through the quality supervisor: inspections, deviation management, audits, complaints and CAPA with root cause analysis
- Guarantee machine safety and compliance in maintenance, projects and new developments
What you bring
- A technically mature leader who brings people, maintenance, engineering and quality together
- An engineering degree is not required: a bachelor in electromechanics, a technical bachelor or equivalent through experience is enough
- Experience in a technical production environment and in maintenance management, technical operations, project leadership, machine building or quality systems
- You take a technical department from reactive to planned work, set priorities and communicate clearly with the shop floor, the directors and management
What you get
- A key role with real impact on production, engineering, quality and future machine development
- Strong in-house technical expertise and an extensive machine park
- Collaboration with production, quality, automation, engineering, purchasing, product management and the directors
- The chance to build a more structured technical organisation
Want to know more about this profession, the salary and the growth paths? Read the role profile: Quality engineer→
How your application works
- Introduction. We call you as soon as possible for a short introduction.
- Interview at the client. A good fit? We put you forward and plan the interview together.
- Offer and start. We guide you through to the signature, and beyond.