Mechanic Maintenance Lead - Packaging

About the role

HEINEKEN Serbia is looking for a Mechanical Maintenance Lead for its Packaging department in Novi Sad. The position is permanent, with a 6-month probation period. You will lead and coordinate the mechanical maintenance team and shift maintenance technicians, ensuring safe, timely and high-quality maintenance while supporting their performance and technical development.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure safe, timely and high-quality execution of planned and unplanned mechanical maintenance, in line with safety and food safety requirements.
• Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance, including repairs and troubleshooting of equipment breakdowns, to minimise production disruptions.
• Organise and improve maintenance routines, including CILT, preventive maintenance and overhauls.
• Support TPM and continuous improvement initiatives such as 5S, root cause analysis and structured problem solving.
• Ensure accurate registration and closure of maintenance work orders in the CMMS and use maintenance KPIs to improve team and equipment performance.
• Coordinate maintenance resources, spare parts and contractors.
• Ensure effective cooperation and handovers between Production, Maintenance, Planning and Spare Parts teams.

Required profile

• VI or VII level of technical education in Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering.
• At least 3 years of maintenance experience in supply chain within a multinational company.
• Advanced English, written and spoken.

Required skills

• Intermediate computer skills (MS Office)
• Maintenance planning and coordination, CMMS work order management

What we offer

• Private health insurance for employees (family members can be included).
• Fit Pass, monthly and annual bonuses.
• Book refund for elementary school children, free beer packages several times a year, and a monetary bonus for the birth of a child.
• New Year's gifts for children plus a monetary bonus per child, paid festival tickets and a paid day off for children from 1st grade and kindergarten.
• Family Care Program and a 0.5% pay increase for each year of experience at previous employers.