Industrial Maintenance Interim Manager

Are you currently experiencing unusual challenges within the maintenance function of your company or industry?

This branch, which is essential to the proper functioning of production processes (throughout the Supply Chain) in industrial companies, requires specific skills and cutting-edge technical expertise.

At WAYDEN, we count, among our pool of 2,000 interim managers, specialists in the Maintenance function (and industrial maintenance) whom we call Interim Maintenance Managers. Among these professions, we find – among others – Interim Maintenance Managers and Interim Maintenance Directors. Able to intervene in emergencies if necessary, these men and women of action are able to manage all large-scale projects related to the maintenance of a production site, a store or a logistics structure. They lead each challenge with excellence, ensure that all maintenance processes are optimized, and that preventive, curative, and predictive maintenance are implemented.

Whatever your sector of activity (agri-food, metallurgy, brickworks, paper mills, cardboard factories, glassware, etc.), we identify a Maintenance expert with in-depth knowledge of your core business, for a perfect understanding of your needs and challenges.

When to use an interim maintenance manager?

Facing a crisis in the Maintenance function

Is your maintenance department currently going through a crisis that is impacting the productivity and growth of your entire business? It can be a human, logistical or organizational flaw, a technical malfunction, defective equipment, or a major breakdown with serious economic consequences.

Faced with such an emergency situation, the interim manager who is an expert in maintenance is able to intervene immediately to identify the source of the problem, carry out repairs and implement preventive actions to protect you from future risks. For change management, crisis management or emergency situations at the level of the Maintenance and Industrial Maintenance function, our experienced interim managers will support you in each mission.

Replace a Maintenance Director or Industrial Maintenance Manager

Is the Maintenance Director of your organization temporarily absent or has left his position permanently? In this profession in tension, recruitment can be complex, and sometimes extends over several months. In order to ensure the continuity and proper management of this pillar function, interim management will be a preferred solution.

At WAYDEN, we identify a maintenance expert who can intervene immediately, and operational as soon as he arrives in your company to manage the team of technicians, supervise the use, proper operation and maintenance of electrical and mechanical equipment and guarantee the proper handover to the future employee at the head of the maintenance department. In this context, the replacement of the manager holding the Maintenance function due to recruitment failure or failure will be ensured within a very short period of time by our interim management firm.

Optimize maintenance strategy and methods

Are you looking to optimize your maintenance strategy and policy to improve the productivity of your department? The interim manager, who is a specialist in industrial maintenance, can redefine the maintenance policy, optimize the modes of intervention, set up a preventive and curative maintenance strategy, and a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). This professional will also provide you with all the tools to ensure the safety of technicians and guarantee the meticulous maintenance of your equipment in order to extend its life.

The Interim Maintenance Manager will also be able to rethink priority breakdown processes in order to avoid the paralysis of your industry or your company by domino effect.

Supervise large-scale work

Are you planning to expand or completely redesign the space of your production site or to expand a factory?

This operation requires great expertise and advanced managerial skills. Outsourcing this project to a maintenance expert will then be very profitable. This seasoned professional will help you minimize the risk of equipment degradation, ensure compliance with protocols, compliance with the various technical standards, and will effectively accompany you in each step of this major restructuring.

Completing a Challenging Maintenance Project

The interim manager specializing in the Maintenance function will also be able to manage a major project, too complex and delicate to be managed by your internal resources alone: managing multi-site maintenance; relocate a production site; change your maintenance protocols and policy following a merger-acquisition or a change of management… recovery plan and PSE (employment protection plan)… Crisis management situations are also part of this mission.

The WAYDEN methodology for the Maintenance function

Would you like to benefit from the expertise of a seasoned maintenance specialist? At WAYDEN, we carefully identify the most suitable interim manager to intervene within your company to take over the reins of your maintenance department for a period defined in advance. Mobile throughout France and abroad, these natural leaders are operational from the beginning of the mission, and implement actions focused on obtaining rapid results with a lasting impact.

The maintenance and industrial maintenance sector is critical and central to the proper functioning of all areas of a company. To carry out this maintenance function, managers must have a very specific profile with solid technical skills but also certain managerial and interpersonal skills. Good management profiles (Maintenance Manager and Maintenance Director) are rare and highly sought-after. The outsourcing of the recruitment process and the use of an Interim Maintenance Manager thus makes it possible to compensate in a very short time for the internal failure of a manager in these essential functions.

Profiles of our managers

Profiles of our interim maintenance managers. Experts with solid expertise and operational excellence, in order to make your company’s maintenance strategy and processes more reliable.

Here’s what sets our interim managers apart:

Your contact for the Maintenance function

Our Partner Rémi Dessertine is at your disposal to discuss and help you refine your interim management needs. A graduate in engineering, Rémi worked for several years in the automotive industry before joining WAYDEN. Following this initial exchange with this dedicated contact, we will be able to identify an interim manager who specialises in the maintenance function and has technical and managerial skills that are perfectly aligned with your expectations.

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Sectors

WAYDEN operates in all sectors of activity, with a detailed understanding of the challenges specific to each. Our strength: managers from the field, who know the codes of each environment and know how to act effectively, regardless of the complexity of the context.

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Issues

Replacing a manager, structuring a function, operational crisis, accelerating a strategic project… We intervene at key moments, when your teams need to go faster, further or simply regain control. Find out how we provide concrete solutions to each of these challenges.

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