About the Opportunity

At Driscoll’s, reliable and well maintained facilities are essential to delivering the highest quality berries worldwide. As our Maintenance Manager Morocco, you play a critical role in ensuring safe, compliant, and high performing sites that enable our operations to run smoothly and sustainably.
As Maintenance Manager, you are responsible for the safe, compliant, and efficient maintenance of Driscoll’s facilities and buildings across all Moroccan locations, including Agadir, Moulay and Larache. You ensure high asset reliability, strong cost control, and long term sustainability across these sites.
This is a leadership role requiring a strong mix of technical expertise, people management, and operational excellence. You work closely with local teams, contractors, and regional stakeholders to deliver facilities performance that supports daily operations and future growth.

 

Responsibilities

In this role, you will take end to end ownership of maintenance and facilities performance across Morocco. You combine hands on operational leadership with a strategic, data driven approach to asset management, people development, and continuous improvement. Working closely with local teams, contractors, and regional stakeholders, you ensure safe, reliable, and cost effective facilities that support both day to day operations and long term business objectives.

People leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance teams and external contractors

• Set clear objectives, KPIs, and performance standards

• Foster a safety first culture and continuous improvement mindset

• Support training, capability development, and succession planning

• Ensure effective resourcing and workload prioritisation

Asset management & maintenance planning

• Own the full lifecycle management of facilities and building assets

• Develop and maintain preventive maintenance (PPM) plans and long term asset strategies

• Reduce reactive maintenance through reliability focused approaches

• Analyse maintenance and asset performance data to drive decisions

• Ensure statutory inspections and compliance documentation are up to date

Budget & capital management

• Manage and control the maintenance OPEX budget

• Track spend, contractor costs, and service performance

• Deliver cost efficiencies without compromising safety or reliability

• Support CAPEX planning, business cases, and ROI justifications

• Lead and support capital projects within scope, time, and budget

Projects, contractors & continuous improvement

• Lead maintenance and facilities projects end to end

• Select, onboard, and manage contractors and service providers

• Negotiate SLAs and manage commercial performance

• Implement best practice maintenance methodologies (Lean, TPM, RCM)

• Identify energy efficiency, sustainability, and operational improvement opportunities

Health, safety & compliance

• Champion health, safety, and compliance across all sites

• Ensure adherence to local statutory and regulatory requirements

• Lead risk assessments, permits to work, and safe systems of work

• Suport audits, inspections, and incident investigations

Candidate Profile

You bring a strong blend of technical maintenance expertise, leadership capability, and commercial awareness. You are comfortable operating in complex, multi stakeholder environments and know how to balance safety, reliability, and cost control. With a structured and proactive approach, you translate strategy into execution while keeping people, performance, and compliance front of mind.

Essential

• Proven experience in maintenance, facilities, or engineering leadership
• Strong people management skills across internal teams and contractors
• Experience managing OPEX and CAPEX budgets
• Solid knowledge of asset lifecycle management, PPM, and CMMS/CAFM systems
• Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills
• Data driven mindset, using KPIs and performance metrics to drive results

Preferred

• Qualification in Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related discipline
• Experience working across multiple sites
• Experience with refrigeration and/or air conditioning systems is a strong plus
• Knowledge of energy management, sustainability, or net zero initiatives
• Experience operating in regulated or audited environments (e.g. ISO, GMP)

Why join Driscoll’s?
At Driscoll’s, we are passionate about growing the finest berries in the world while investing in safe, sustainable, and high performing operations. This role offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact at regional level within a collaborative, values driven organisation with strong growth ambitions.

En postulant à cette offre, vous consentez à ce que DRISCOLL’s collecte et traite vos données personnelles dans le cadre du recrutement, conformément à la loi n° 09-08 relative à la protection des personnes physiques à l’égard du traitement des données à caractère personnel et aux dispositions de la CNDP. Vos données seront utilisées uniquement pour ce processus et conservées pendant la durée nécessaire. Vous disposez d’un droit d’accès, de rectification et d’opposition qui a fait l’objet d’une déclaration auprès de la CNDP sous le numéro A-1891/2025.