Location
Berre L’Etang, France
Description
The Technical Equipment Management Specialist contributes to improving the technical availability, reliability and maintainability of equipment within the Additives area at the Berre site.
The role manages equipment-related activities across an assigned geographical area, ensuring compliance with HSE requirements while optimising maintenance costs and long-term asset performance.
The position covers preventive maintenance, maintenance methods, reliability, maintainability, technical projects, documentation management and support to maintenance execution teams.
Description – Version française
Responsibilities and accountability
Requirements and expertise
- Act as the key contact for preventive maintenance activities within the assigned area.
- Develop and update preventive maintenance plans and related maintenance tasks in SAP.
- Ensure that maintenance work instructions and intervention procedures are properly integrated and updated in SAP.
- Identify and estimate major maintenance, refurbishment and equipment reconstruction activities.
- Conduct audits to verify that contractors apply the required technical standards and best practices.
- Coordinate and monitor corrective actions resulting from audits, hazard studies, HEMP reviews and certification assessments.
- Ensure that equipment files, technical documentation, procedures and operating manuals are complete and up to date.
- Ensure that maintenance histories are correctly recorded in SAP or other relevant systems.
- Act as the SAP focal point for equipment management activities.
- Act as the Gédotec focal point and ensure that technical drawings are kept up to date.
- Monitor maintenance action plans and performance indicators.
- Define the annual planning of legal, regulatory and metrology-related activities.
- Analyse recommendations and propose appropriate corrective actions.
- Contribute to process efficiency improvement studies and implement maintenance best practices.
- Act as the focal point for purchasing-related generic actions, including contracts and SAP processes.
- Improve equipment maintainability, particularly for critical and vital equipment.
- Optimise the stock of specific spare parts.
- Identify recurring equipment failures and technical “bad actors” using information from maintenance and field teams.
- Carry out reliability studies in collaboration with technical experts, mechanical specialists, reliability engineers, technology teams, corrosion specialists and civil engineering teams.
- Investigate the root causes of equipment failures and define the resulting corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure that equipment is operated under appropriate conditions and coordinate corrective actions with Operations.
- Provide technical support for troubleshooting activities.
- Initiate maintenance modification requests and monitor Maintenance Management of Change processes.
- Review and assess the technical feasibility of modification requests initiated by other departments.
- Act as the Engineering contact for projects, including technical reviews, maintainability assessments, work acceptance and documentation updates.
- Ensure that project-related technical documents are updated in both paper and SAP systems.
- Support the implementation of new tools and associated training.
- Act as the focal point for highly technical service requests.
- Prepare and plan technical maintenance activities when required.
- Support equipment and material procurement, including technical specifications, supplier identification and price research.
- Provide technical support to Maintenance Technical Specialists.
- Provide temporary backup for maintenance and digital technology technical roles when required.
- Analyse operational priorities and propose the appropriate balance between short-term needs, long-term reliability, HSE requirements and cost objectives
Personal skills
Education
- Two- or three-year higher education qualification in instrumentation, control systems, industrial automation or a comparable technical field.
- A BTS CIRA, DUT or equivalent professional experience is required
Work experience
- Practical or theoretical knowledge of preventive and corrective equipment maintenance.
- Relevant field experience in an industrial environment, particularly in instrumentation, process analysis or electrical systems.
- Good knowledge of equipment operation, degradation mechanisms, condition monitoring and maintenance interventions.
- Experience with industrial maintenance methods, equipment reliability and asset management.
- Experience using SAP for maintenance plans, equipment history and technical documentation.
- Good command of Microsoft Office tools.
- Experience with technical documentation and drawing management systems such as Gédotec.
- Knowledge of purchasing and procurement processes would be an advantage.
- Technical written English is required.
Critical Competencies
- HSE awareness: Consistently applies HSE principles when reviewing equipment, maintenance activities and technical solutions.
- Analytical thinking: Understands technical issues, identifies failure causes and develops structured solutions.
- Problem solving: Investigates equipment malfunctions and defines appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
- Reliability mindset: Focuses on improving long-term equipment availability, reliability and maintainability.
- Planning and prioritisation: Balances short-term operational needs with long-term maintenance, HSE and cost priorities.
- Organisation and rigour: Maintains accurate maintenance plans, equipment files, technical histories and action tracking.
- Systems thinking: Understands how equipment, maintenance, operations, engineering and purchasing processes interact.
- Collaboration: Works effectively with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Technology, contractors and external technical experts.
- Communication skills: Builds effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Autonomy: Manages assigned technical activities independently and takes ownership of results.
- Service orientation: Provides reliable technical support to operational and maintenance teams.
- Resilience: Remains effective when managing technical issues, changing priorities and time-sensitive situations.
- Continuous improvement: Identifies opportunities to improve equipment performance and maintenance processes.
- Technical judgement: Assesses technical feasibility and proposes practical solutions aligned with operational needs.
- Cost awareness: Seeks technically appropriate solutions while considering maintenance costs and equipment lifecycle performance.
Application process
Interested in applying?
We are looking for a technically minded and safety-focused professional with strong experience in industrial equipment maintenance, reliability and asset management.
Join Velogy and contribute directly to improving the availability, maintainability and long-term performance of critical equipment at our Berre site.
Apply today and be part of our journey.
Velogy is committed to promoting equal opportunities and preventing all forms of discrimination. This position is open to applicants with disabilities.
Application process
Interested in applying?
We’re looking for motivated professionals to grow with us. Apply today and be part of our journey.
