Maintenance Coordinator

Role Overview

Maintenance Coordinator at Hempel. The position supports maintenance operations at a manufacturing facility, coordinating preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.

Company Overview

Hempel is a global company with over 7,000 colleagues worldwide. The organization is built on shared trust, mutual respect, and support. Hempel is committed to creating an inclusive environment where employees feel safe, valued, and treated equally, and where each person can bring their authentic selves to work.

Role Purpose

Coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities to maximize equipment reliability and uptime while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards and managing maintenance costs and resource allocation.

Key Responsibilities

Compliance and Safety

• Maintain compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Ensure knowledge of HSE standards in chemical environments.

Maintenance Coordination

• Coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.
• Develop weekly and monthly maintenance schedules to minimize production disruption.
• Manage maintenance scheduling and resource allocation.
• Ensure routine inspections and servicing of dissolvers, mixers, pumps, mills, compressors and filling machines.

Operations and Equipment Management

• Ensure equipment uptime and operational efficiency in production lines.
• Respond to equipment failures and coordinate corrective actions to restore operations quickly.
• Monitor inventory levels of critical spare parts and ensure availability without overstocking.

Work Order and Record Management

• Create, prioritize, and track work orders through ERP systems.
• Maintain maintenance records, logs, and KPIs.
• Prepare periodic reports.

Cost Control and Inventory

• Control maintenance costs and optimize spare parts inventory.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Facilitate communication between planning, production, quality, procurement, HSE and maintenance teams.
• Manage external service providers, contractors, suppliers and OEMs.

Continuous Improvement

• Support continuous improvement initiatives and plant reliability programs.
• Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) and reliability improvement projects.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering preferred. High Diploma holders with strong experience may also be considered.
• 3–7 years of experience in maintenance coordination within manufacturing, preferably paint, chemical, or process industries.
• Hands-on experience with rotating and process equipment including dissolvers, mixers, pumps, compressors and filling systems.

Skills & Competencies

• Familiarity with ERP systems.
• Strong understanding of preventive and predictive maintenance practices.
• Basic knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems.
• Strong planning, organization, communication and coordination skills.
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage priorities.

Additional Information

• Seniority Level: Entry level.
• Job Functions: Engineering, Manufacturing, Production.
• Industry: Chemicals.
• Application deadline: 2026-09-30.
• Professional development and career progression opportunities available.
• Opportunity to work in a global company with collaborative culture.