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Are you passionate about combining leadership and technical expertise to drive both people and production performance? In this role, you will lead a skilled team dedicated to maintenance excellence, collaborating with colleagues across the site to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations.

At Jönköping Dairy, we produce fresh milk, milk with extended shelf life, a lacto-free assortment, cream, and sour milk for customers all over Sweden. We are also expanding internationally, exporting Swedish milk to the Dutch, German, and UK markets.

How you will make an impact

As Maintenance & Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the reliability of plant, equipment, facilities, and systems to ensure optimum availability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. You will lead a skilled team in maintenance and engineering, working closely with Production, Quality, Safety, Logistics, and other stakeholders to ensure safe and stable operations. As part of the site leadership team, you will help secure our targets within health & safety, delivery reliability, quality, and financial performance. You will be a visible, approachable leader, fostering an inclusive, data-driven, and improvement-focused environment.

More specifically, you will

• Maximize equipment availability and efficiency, ensuring safe, LEAN, and compliant maintenance operations.
• Lead, coach, and develop your team; set direction aligned with Arla’s strategy and values, driving an inclusive and collaborative workplace.
• Own maintenance targets, budgeting, and cost efficiencies; manage contracts and stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement (LCO, LEAN, APS, SPC, OEE) and data-driven maintenance via CMMS and analytics.
• Plan and execute long-term maintenance for equipment, utilities, and production IT; recover operations after failures.
• Contribute to CAPEX (inputs, budgets) and execute small projects; ensure new equipment meets legislation and Arla standards.
• Role-model digital transformation and share best practices across sites.

You will report directly to the Site Director and be part of a diverse site management team. This is a permanent position based at Jönköping Dairy.

What will make you successful

You have a university degree within food, engineering, or equivalent, and several years of leadership experience. You are confident in the disciplines of maintenance, reliability, or engineering and have a solid understanding of production and supply chain processes within a larger, international organization. Experience with CMMS-driven maintenance, data analytics, reliability-centered maintenance, and continuous improvement is essential. Documented experience with LEAN tools and Six Sigma methodology is highly valued and you are fluent in both English and Swedish.

Personally, you are

• Attentive and engaged, with a clear and inspiring communication style.
• Collaborative and able to create engagement to drive results.
• Skilled at building strong relationships internally and externally.

What do we offer?

We’re committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. And you’ll join a market leader who produces nutritious household-favourite brands in a way that makes things better for our customers, the farmers who own us, and the whole world.

Arla Foods has collective agreements, and we always ensure to offer good and competitive working conditions. In addition, safety and working environment are our top priorities, which is why we, among other things, conduct random drug and alcohol tests.

Would you like to join us?

If you want to help shape the industry, then seize this exciting opportunity. The application deadline is 12 January 2026, but we will review applications on an ongoing basis. For additional information, please contact Site Director, Johan Barkinge at [email protected].

Shape the Future of Dairy

Arla is a global leader in the dairy industry, committed to enabling good food choices that make life better, providing people with natural, sustainable nourishment, while taking care at every step to ensure Arla is a choice they can feel good about. If you are looking to shape the future with an ambitious global cooperative that truly cares about your growth, where everyone feels valued and empowered, and collaboration is the core of culture, Arla is a choice you can feel good about.