FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.

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Fantastic opportunity in the field of engineering as a maintenance Engineer with interesting, international customers... Interested? 

As a maintenance engineer you have the opportunity to work on and highly automated distribution and fulfilment technologies within the parcel, distribution and fulfilment industries. Our installed base MHE portfolio is rapidly growing with sortation and transportation technologies, AS/RS (Autostore, mini-loads, etc.), Robotics, AGVs, AMRs, and intelligent warehouse software. The asset management team is in development, we are looking for team members keen on building the organization and standards.  

Role

You are responsible for the foundation and improvement of maintenance management, life cycle plans and setting the standard for continuous improvement activities and knowledge sharing between our engineering departments, our service organization and customers.  

Most of your time you’ll work on maintenance engineering for FORTNA products and various highly automated distribution and fulfilment centres.  You have a pivotal role between the Engineering stake holders, customers and the commercial departments. You will work on the further development of the FORTNA maintenance management software and asset management capabilities within FORTNA. Primary responsibilities include: 

First point of contact for the project teams and the customers regarding maintenance management of FORTNA integrated assets You are the developer and owner of FORTNA maintenance management metrics and its definitions to gather data, measure, monitor and analyse maintenance performance Develop specifications, test and implement a maintenance management software at our customer together with our suppliers and software teams You work together with the maintenance engineers in the asset management team on the maintenance demands for machines, it’s components and control systems. Support this with FMECA for the development of Preventive (PM) Maintenance Plans You develop customer specific life cycle plans for FORTNA assets and system integrations You and the team are the competency owner in the development of the maintenance engineering processes. You focus on standardization of methodology and processes within the company and team 

Do you recognize yourself? 

You are a team player and keen to operate worldwide and collaborate to work with colleagues and customers with different backgrounds. You have good communication and analytical skills, you are ambitious and have a win mentality to develop FORTNA and yourself further. In addition, you are: 

accurate and good at structuring matters solution-oriented and pragmatic where necessary stress resistant and proactive capable to coach, develop and hold others accountable 

What do you bring

At least a Bachelor in an engineering field, or similar level gained with experience Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and convincingly Proven analytical skills and experience with data analytics Good consulting and stakeholder management skills Experience with maintenance management software (e.g. IBM Maximo) Knowledge of asset management methods, such as RCM, FMECA, RAMS, TCO, etc. Good oral and written skills in English and preferably Dutch. German is an advantage. 

For this role you are based in Houten, the Netherlands. You are willing to travel internationally approximately 10 % of your time.  

What can you expect from us

Our organization is flat and is growing globally, so not everything is set in stone, and we expect you to thrive on that! We offer 33 vacation days, a solid pension plan, travel allowance, training budget, a bicycle plan, healthy fruit @Work, hybrid working, and various social events with colleagues. 

We are Lifecycle Performance Services (LPS), a division of FORTNA. LPS provides support to every FORTNA customer by providing customer-specific services for delivered components, transport and sorting solutions. We maintain, modify and optimize systems and provide 24/7 customer support. The organization is growing rapidly as the market demands our systems and services. 

Ready to go "Above + Beyond"? 

We look forward to receiving your application. 

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, feel free to contact us!