Job Description
Maintenance Specialist

It's more than a job

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you’re leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse—it helps shape the flow of global trade.

The Contract Logistics Maintenance Specialist works within the Contract Logistics Function.  She/He will operate for Thelios Contract, our new automated warehouse located in Dese (VE).
Focuses on Maintenance, She/He will execute the maintenance plan related the autometed warehouse and the warehouse in general, contribute to all prevention activities and innovates projects to ensure fleet effectiveness and failure reduction.

How you create impact

  • Carry out reactive maintenance to all parts of the system, observing established health and safety practices and ensure availability of automated system (shuttle system, conveyor system, picking station, automated taping machine, etc.).
  • Intervene quickly when errors occur and reset priority, based on the urgency and the gravity of failure that could happen in relation to the automated system.
  • Identify potential faults and eliminate the causes at an early stage in order to ensure the highest possible level of availability
  • Communicate clearly with other teams and troubleshooting efficiently
  • Prepare, updated and control the warehouse maintenance plan, with focus on the automated warehouse.
  • Support to diagnose the source of a failure to reduce downtime and analyse faults
  • Manage the stock of spare parts warehouse and cooperate with the Management to define and follow up the replenishment process.
  • Highlight potential risks and improvement to the automated warehouse
  • Knowledge of SCADA system, PLC, maintenance tools and Office packages. 
  • To ensure the availability of the site, technicians work in alternative shifts.

What we would like you to bring

  • 3 – 5 years’ experience in medium scale (>50 FTE) automated fulfilment operations with strong preference given to Fashion Business.
  • Deep knowledge and understanding of automated warehouse.
  • Experience with maintenance activity and plan.

What's in it for you

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid. 

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid.