Engineering Manager

Life tastes better with ice cream

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.

We create iconic ice cream brands that are part of everyday life, bringing moments of joy to millions of people around the world. Everybody loves ice cream. And as the world’s biggest pure‑play ice cream company, we have the scale and ambition to make a real difference.

What truly sets us apart is how we work.

We move fast and keep things simple. We turn ideas into action, trust people to take ownership, and work as one team to win together with integrity. Our culture is high‑performance, collaborative and focused on getting things done.

We’re curious and ready for what’s next. We embrace digital, use data to make better decisions, and keep learning, including how AI can help us work smarter and serve consumers better.

The role

The job requires maintenance technical leadership, coordinating resources from the local, regional and global organization as well as the global, category, peers and/ or 3PM teams. A key responsibility is to lead the maintenance budget as well as M&I and innovation capex. The aim is to manage maintenance cost, systems and maintenance program at the site to drive safety, productivity improvement, cost, improvement of assets lifetime, asset utilization and reliability. A critical aspect is related to a strong passion for technical excellence and a continuous improvement approach. On top of this, it is also requested to develop people to drive team’s performance. Strategically, engineering manager influences peers and stakeholders to drive the business agenda through technical solutions

What you'll be responsible for

• Identify, develop, and implement creative and practical solutions to complex technical and operational problems.
• Promote and enable
• the rapid sharing and adoption of best practices across the site and the wider engineering community.
• Drive and sustain equipment reliability and asset performance through proactive improvement initiatives.
• Apply an outside-in mindset, leveraging external benchmarks, technologies, and ideas to improve internal processes.
• Encourage experimentation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within cross-functional teams.
• Effectively balance multiple priorities and competing demands while maintaining focus on business objectives.
• Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with engineering teams, key stakeholders, and internal customers.
Provide and stimulate creative solutions to technical problems, rapid transfer of best practices, and drive equipment reliability embracing outside-in mentality and willingness to experiment and collaborate having the to balance a variety of priorities while maintaining healthy relationships across the engineering team, key stakeholders and customers. 


We're looking for someone who

• Engineering Master’s Degree. Preferably in Mechanical Engineering
• 10 – 15 years of professional experience in Maintenance Management and organizational management areas in FMCG/ related industry  
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a people and maintenance management role (amount of experience needed depends on site size/ complexity) 
• Minimum 5 -8 years manufacturing experience. 
• Professional engineering skills 
• Maintenance Systems and Maintenance Management expertise 
• Budget management skills 
• Understands and implements continuous improvement to drive performance for loss management. 
• SOLs: Purpose & Service, Personal Mastery, Agility, Business Acumen, Talent Catalyst, Passion for High Performance, Consumer Love 
• Skills: Leadership, Communication, Persuasion, Project Management, Analytical/ Systems Thinking 
• Attained Professional Engineer Status (Or member of professional institution) 
• Knowledge of facilities systems 
• Implementation of Maintenance Management systems (CMMS) 
• Structured work and thinking 
• Self-motivating with high problem-solving focus 


What you'll get

Alongside meaningful work and strong development, we offer a reward package that typically includes

• Market-competitive pay ( Range € 76.000,00 - € 95.000,00) depending on

experience and qualifications, plus performance-related rewards
• Flexible ways of working
• Support for health, wellbeing and life outside of work
• Time off to rest and recharge
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

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Why join us?

This is a place for people who are passionate about ice cream and are growth obsessed - both for the business and for themselves. People who act like an owner and drive our business end-to-end. People who are driven by success to deliver more than we ever thought we could! 

You’ll thrive here if you value an inclusive culture, with low ego and hierarchy - and if you’re excited to continuously learn and challenge how we work, using digital, data, and new thinking to push us forward.

- Roles with real accountability and visible impact
- Free to move fast, experiment and challenge how things are done
- Continuous learning and development as the business grows
- Reward linked to performance and contribution.

Your career here is shaped by what you deliver, as you work across functions and markets and grow with the business.

Ready to build the future of Ice Cream?

If this sounds like the place where you'd thrive, we'd love to hear from you. Apply online and share your CV. We'll review your application and be in touch with the next steps. 

If you are an individual with a disability and require assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know.

Additional information

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage people with all backgrounds to apply including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and Māori and Pacific Peoples.