Are you an experienced maintenance professional ready to take the next step in your career? Evonik’s Nippon Aerosil division is looking for a Maintenance Team Leader to join our site team. In this role, you’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with team supervision, performing preventive maintenance, troubleshooting equipment failures, and coordinating daily activities to keep our operations running smoothly. You’ll have the opportunity to design your own monthly schedule, guide a team, and contribute to a safer, more efficient workplace. If you’re fluent in Japanese, experienced in industrial maintenance, and ready to grow with a global leader in specialty chemicals, we’d like to hear from you.
About Evonik
Explore a world of opportunities with us. At Evonik, we look ahead and help shape innovative solutions to make our world more sustainable and life healthier, more vibrant, and more comfortable. We’re a global leader in specialty chemicals, with 33,000 colleagues around the world working together to create value for our customers and communities. When you join Evonik, you have the chance to explore, thrive, and grow. We offer attractive career paths, high-quality development programs, performance-based remuneration, occupational health benefits, and hybrid and flexible working environments through our #SmartWork initiative. Bring your fresh perspective, develop your strengths, break out of your mold, and find a career that fits your dreams with us.
Meet the Team
Curious about what it’s like to work at Evonik? Click the link below to hear what our employees have to say about their experiences:
https://careers.evonik.com/en/about/meet-the-team
Key Responsibilities
- Perform a comprehensive range of site maintenance activities, either supporting others or working independently to achieve pre-established outcomes.
- Troubleshoot and diagnose equipment and systems for emergency repairs, responding quickly to minimize downtime.
- Carry out preventive maintenance inspections according to schedule, identifying potential issues before they become problems.
- Provide operational support services across the site, ensuring all equipment functions safely and efficiently.
- Act as first-line supervisor for a transactional operations area, overseeing routine work and using existing systems and protocols to guide daily activities.
- Supervise a team performing routine maintenance work, providing direction, support, and technical guidance as needed.
- Design your own monthly schedule, and when necessary, assign work to others to speed up workflow and ensure high-priority tasks are completed on time.
- Manage and apply safe systems of work without supervision, and provide technical guidance to others on safety procedures.
- Develop, monitor, and interpret policies and procedures, ensuring they align with organizational strategies and objectives.
- Create clear, relevant, and effective reports as required, communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
Qualifications and Requirements
To be successful in this role, you’ll need the following:
- High School diploma or Further Education College qualification (2 A Levels or equivalent).
- Japanese communication capability in business and maintenance technical contexts is a MUST—you’ll need to communicate effectively with team members, contractors, and stakeholders in Japanese.
- Sound experience and understanding of straightforward procedures and systems within an industrial maintenance environment.
- Basic experience coordinating the work of others, whether as a formal supervisor or an informal team lead.
- Ability to work without supervision and provide technical guidance when required on planning, organizing, prioritizing, and overseeing activities to meet business objectives efficiently.
- Experience developing, monitoring, and interpreting policies and procedures, ensuring they match organizational strategies and objectives.
- Clear and effective verbal communication skills, with the ability to express ideas, request actions, and formulate plans or policies without supervision.
- Ability to work with guidance (but not constant supervision) to develop appropriate plans and perform necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
- Skill in reviewing and creating relevant, lucid, and effective reports.
- Strong commitment to safety, with the ability to manage and apply safe systems of work without supervision and provide technical guidance to others.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to work with a global leader in specialty chemicals, contributing to innovative and sustainable solutions.
- Salary Ranges 21$ per hr depends on experience
- A role that combines hands-on technical work with team leadership and planning responsibilities.
- Performance-based remuneration and occupational health benefits.
- Hybrid and flexible working environments through our #SmartWork initiative.
- Attractive career paths and high-quality development programs to support your growth.
- The chance to work alongside 33,000 colleagues worldwide who are passionate about making a difference.
- A supportive environment where you can bring your fresh perspective, develop your strengths, and break out of your mold.
How to Apply
Ready to explore, thrive, and grow with Evonik? We’d love to hear from you.
To ensure your application is processed as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal:
Please address your application to Talent Acquisition Manager Kiyomi Iwano , stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations. Be sure to highlight your Japanese language capability and your maintenance leadership experience in your application.
Company: Nippon Aerosil
Take the next step in your maintenance career with a global leader. Apply today.