Maintenance Manager

Phosphorgewinnung Schkopau is seeking a highly skilled Maintenance Manager to lead the maintenance operations of our first-of-its-kind plant for phosphorus recycling. This facility is in Schkopau (Sachsen-Anhalt) and utilizes a completely new technology for recovering raw materials from ash generated at incineration of sewage sludge.

Join our team to create a more circular, sustainable future!

Job description

The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for:

• Developing and implementing the maintenance strategy for an entirely new production technology, including what maintenance resources should be inhouse versus outsourced.
• Setting up a complete maintenance management system (CMMS) including maintenance plans and routines as well as spare part handling.
• Developing and manage maintenance budget for the plant.
• Recruiting, leading and mentoring the maintenance team in an innovative, safety-driven environment.
• Establishing, and maintaining, needed service contracts for the plant in general and for specific plant equipment.
• Establishing best practices for predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance on the plant equipment.
• Collaborating with plant operations and engineering team to create and refine maintenance processes for the new, first of its kind, chemical plant.
• Establishing routines for inspections and certifications needed for the plant equipment.
• Ensuring compliance with stringent safety and environmental regulations.

The Maintenance manager will be part of the Plant Management Team (PMT), lead by the Plant manager. The PMT consists of operation, lab, maintenance and process development.

We offer you

A stimulating and challenging job where you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and abilities together with a motivated team when building and operating the world’s first Ash2Phos plant. This plant will be a flagship plant for the process, and support the transition to a circular economy.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience (10+ years) in maintenance management, preferably in a chemical or manufacturing setting
• Strong expertise in mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation systems
• Hands-on experience in implementing CMMS, predictive maintenance, and reliability programs
• Ability to troubleshoot and adapt to new equipment with minimal historical data
• Engineering degree (mechanical, electrical, or related field)
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Proven ability to motivate and lead a team in start-up situations as well as steady state operations
• Required Language Skills:
  • Fluent in German
  • Speaks and writes well in English

How to apply

Please send your application including a CV to Anna Lundbom, Managing Director PGS, (anna.lundbom@pg-schkopau.de) the latest 18^th of July.

About Phosphorgewinnung Schkopau

Phosphorgewinnung Schkopau (PGS) is a joint venture between Easymining (owning 75%) and Gelsenwasser (owning 25%). The purpose of the joint venture is to establish and scale up the Ash2Phos-technology in Germany.

In the Ash2Phos-technology, phosphorus as well as iron and aluminium are recycled from incinerated sewage sludge. The products produced are pure products, replacing virgin conventional products. Recovery of phosphorus will be legally required in Germany by 2029 for all large wastewater facilities.

Please read more on PGS webpage about the project and on the EasyMining webpage about the Ash2Phos-technology

EasyMining is an innovation company, 100% owned by Ragn-Sells, and are today employing 60+ persons with presence in Sweden and Germany. EasyMining is passionate about inventing new technologies that uses intelligent chemical solutions to close nutrient cycles. EasyMining have several patented processes for retrieving valuable nutrients such as nitrogen, salts and phosphorus from wastes such as incinerated sewage sludge, ash and leachate. EasyMining’s objective is to offer its clients process solutions to enable circular material flows in an efficient commercial way. Ragn-Sells is a privately owned corporate group that provides a wide range of services and products in the recycling and resource recovery business, which collects, treats, detoxifies and recycle waste and residual products from businesses, organisations and households. The Ragn-Sells Group is located in Northern Europe (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia), has over 2500 employees and a turover of 850 M€.

Gelsenwasser AG (GW) engages in the water, wastewater, gas supply, and electricity businesses in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland. The Water segment engages in the purchase, production, sale, transport and distribution of drinking water. The Wastewater segment engages in the wastewater related business, which include sewer networks and sewage treatment plant activities. GW was founded in 1887 and is based in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. GW has more than 1600 employees and is a subsidiary of Wasser und Gas Westfalen GmbH.