Manager Maintenance & Repair EMEA – Moerdijk

Are you looking for a challenging Manager role on a dynamic fleet department?

NewPort Europe is specialized in transportation of chemical liquids, food stuff and gases in tank containers. Main trade areas are Europe, North and South America, Middle East, Africa, India and the Far East. NewPort Europe is responsible for all commercial and operational activities in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Africa and India.

The Manager Maintenance & Repair EMEA is responsible for managing regional tank container Fleet in EMEA in an effective and cost-efficient way.

Responsibilities

· Manages and maintains NewPort owned material to standard that meets NewPort’s quality and safety requirements

· Assuring that timely repairs and maintenance are performed in compliance with the procedures set by NewPort

· Reducing depot-through time

· Manages depots efficient and effective in order to reduce costs and improve the Fleet utilisation

· Monitoring the quality and accuracy of in-service estimates provided by repair depots.

· Complete, correct and processes administrative data, ensuring a high quality of data in the NewPort Transport Management system

· Implement improvements on processes and procedures

· Coordination of claims

· Manages the EMEIA M&R team

Main tasks

Improvement

· Identify problems and implement improvement opportunities for each stage of the business process, guidelines, and procedures.

· Proactively respond and report improvement opportunities to the management.

· Implement improvements in business process, guidelines, and procedures.

Technical maintenance of new existing material

· Identify technical developments and problems to material.

· Provide technical support and assistance in the event of incidents and emergencies.

· List inventory of equipment repair, control, modify and coordinate repairs and input of all relevant information into the NewPort Computer System.

· Ensure tank containers are maintained to the agreed quality specifications.

· React, alert and take actions on flaws and failures.

· Monitor and control the technical work and functions of the depots.

· Provide input for investment requests.

· Monitor and ensure that all test certificates after statutory testing and repairs are available.

· Monitor the safety and cleanliness of equipment and take actions for any safety issue.

Manage Depots

· Manage outsourced depots, falling under NewPort’s responsibility.

· Instruct and monitor assignments for repairs.

· Ensure that the appropriate test certificates are available.

· Maintaining close contacts with survey companies, classification bureaus and depot management.

· Address to the business residual loads and additional cleaning cost.

· Report findings to the Global Fleet Manager.

· Oversee depot improvement by performing audits.

· Concludes SLA’s and cost agreements with depots.

· Reduce the average depot-through time of a tank container to improve the idle time and to increase the utilization.

· Bi-weekly meetings and daily consultation with NP Operations/Planning department regarding the locations for immediate and forecasted demand for available tanks to focus on.

Administration

· Collect data to monitor progress in line with the defined goals, advises on irregularities in compliance and checks agreed prices from the suppliers.

· Identify differences in interpretation of administrative data and irregularities in data and take appropriate action.

· Perform work outside the indicated result area as and when deemed necessary by NewPort management.

Who are we looking for?

· + 3 years relevant work experience in a similar position

· Fluency in English & Dutch

· Knowledge of IMDG and local logistic legislation

· Knowledge of ITCO ACC repair criteria and technical details of tank containers.

· Knowledge of the multimodal transport sector

· Knowledge of software applications

What does NewPort offer you?

· The opportunity to make a direct impact on our European offices (NL, Germany, France, and the UK),

· This role will further develop your training skills and together we will operate within a global environment.

· A competitive salary, travel allowance, pension plan of which 2/3 is covered by us, 24 vacation days & 3.5 ADV days.

· A dynamic environment in a team that supports each other! It's an international environment, so you'll work with colleagues from various backgrounds.

· We're committed to introducing you to NewPort and having the NewPort teams get to know you in a fun way. With an extensive onboarding program and plan, we ensure that you get to know your colleagues, the business, and your role.

· Beyond the onboarding plan, we also care about your long-term development: we offer training opportunities and room for growth.

· Not to forget: monthly Friday afternoon drinks, an annual summer BBQ with international colleagues, and a rocking Christmas and New Year's party!

Please note that our location in Moerdijk requires you to have your own car.

Interested? Send your resume and cover letter to careers.eur@newporttank.com

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Expected hours: 36 – 40 per week

Application Question(s):

Do you live in The Netherlands?

Language:

Dutch (Required)
English (Required)

Work Location: In person

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