Maintenance Manager Morocco

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Maintenance Manager Morocco
Location

Morocco - Larache
Job Family
Real Estate & Facilities

Time Type
Full time

Job Requisition ID
R0008975

Experience Years
5-10 Years of Experience
Employee Type
Regular

About The Opportunity
At Driscoll’s, reliable and well maintained facilities are essential to delivering the highest quality berries worldwide. As our Maintenance Manager Morocco, you play a critical role in ensuring safe, compliant, and high performing sites that enable our operations to run smoothly and sustainably.
As Maintenance

Manager, you are responsible for the safe, compliant, and efficient maintenance of Driscoll’s facilities and buildings across all Moroccan locations, including Agadir, Moulay and Larache. You ensure high asset reliability, strong cost control, and long term sustainability across these sites. This is a leadership role requiring a strong mix of technical expertise, people management, and operational excellence. You work closely with local teams, contractors, and regional stakeholders to deliver facilities performance that supports daily operations and future growth.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will take end to end ownership of maintenance and facilities performance across Morocco. You combine hands on operational leadership with a strategic, data driven approach to asset management, people development, and continuous improvement. Working closely with local teams, contractors, and regional stakeholders, you ensure safe, reliable, and cost effective facilities that support both day to day operations and long term business objectives.

People leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance teams and external contractors

• Set clear objectives, KPIs, and performance standards

• Foster a safety first culture and continuous improvement mindset

• Support training, capability development, and succession planning

• Ensure effective resourcing and workload prioritisation

Asset management & maintenance planning

• Own the full lifecycle management of facilities and building assets

• Develop and maintain preventive maintenance (PPM) plans and long term asset strategies

• Reduce reactive maintenance through reliability focused approaches

• Analyse maintenance and asset performance data to drive decisions

• Ensure statutory inspections and compliance documentation are up to date

Budget & capital management

• Manage and control the maintenance OPEX budget

• Track spend, contractor costs, and service performance

• Deliver cost efficiencies without compromising safety or reliability

• Support CAPEX planning, business cases, and ROI justifications

• Lead and support capital projects within scope, time, and budget

Projects, contractors & continuous improvement

• Lead maintenance and facilities projects end to end

• Select, onboard, and manage contractors and service providers

• Negotiate SLAs and manage commercial performance

• Implement best practice maintenance methodologies (Lean, TPM, RCM)

• Identify energy efficiency, sustainability, and operational improvement opportunities

Health, safety & compliance

• Champion health, safety, and compliance across all sites

• Ensure adherence to local statutory and regulatory requirements

• Lead risk assessments, permits to work, and safe systems of work

• Suport audits, inspections, and incident investigations

Candidate Profile
You bring a strong blend of technical maintenance expertise, leadership capability, and commercial awareness. You are comfortable operating in complex, multi stakeholder environments and know how to balance safety, reliability, and cost control. With a structured and proactive approach, you translate strategy into execution while keeping people, performance, and compliance front of mind.
Essential

• Proven experience in maintenance, facilities, or engineering leadership

• Strong people management skills across internal teams and contractors

• Experience managing OPEX and CAPEX budgets

• Solid knowledge of asset lifecycle management, PPM, and CMMS/CAFM systems

• Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills

• Data driven mindset, using KPIs and performance metrics to drive results

Preferred

• Qualification in Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related discipline

• Experience working across multiple sites