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Maintenance, Reliability and Project Manager Refinery

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Job ID 325862 Date posted 04/24/2026 Location : Izegem, Belgium

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Maintenance, Reliability and Project Manager Refinery will supervise and execute the deployment of overall leading maintenance practices aligned to production needs. In this role, you will lead a team that executes routine complex activities to maintain and improve capacity utilization and quality standards realized through reliable operations across the region.
Next to that the Maintenance, Reliability and Project Manager Refinery is also repsonsible for the CAPEX project portfolio. In this role, you manage the fuller multi year refinery CAPEX project portfolio and lead & team of Project Engineers that ensure a safe, smooth & on time project delivery.
The Maintenance, Reliability and Project Manager Refinery will supervise and execute the deployment of overall leading maintenance practices aligned to production needs. In this role, you will lead a team that executes routine complex activities to maintain and improve capacity utilization and quality standards realized through reliable operations across the region.

Key Accountabilities

  • Develop preventive maintenance programs.
  • Coordinate and integrates with other plant functions to ensure support. 
  • Ensure work is performed following safety guidelines to ensure health and wellbeing of employees.
  • Resolve maintenance priorities based on established plans and assigns tasks.
  • Oversee maintenance activities to ensure that disruption to production is minimized.
  • Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
  • Own the CAPEX project portfolio
  • Manage the execution of these projects
  • Develop & Maintain a multi year CAPEX portfolio for the Refinery plant
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Experience managing tasks across multiple crafts (electrical, plumbing, carpentry)
  • Minimum of four years of related work experience
  • Fluent in Dutch and English
  • Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

  • Five years of supervisory experience

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:  
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