Head of Services

Financial Performance

• Maintain full accountability for top-line growth, cost management, and profitability.
• Continuously assess and improve financial performance through disciplined planning, forecasting, and resource allocation.
• Drive operational and commercial initiatives that maximize efficiency and business value.

People Leadership & Culture

• Implement the best possible organizational structure, policies, and procedures.
• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing, engaged, and accountable team.
• Create a safe, inclusive, and positive work environment that promotes employee well-being, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Foster a growth mindset culture that encourages innovation, ownership, problem-solving, and professional development.

Quality, Safety & Compliance

• Champion quality, health, safety, environmental, and operational excellence standards throughout the organization.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable legal, regulatory, industry, and corporate requirements.
• Promote a proactive safety culture that protects employees, customers, and the business.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Lead initiatives that improve efficiency, enhance customer value, and strengthen organizational capabilities.
• Encourage innovation and the adoption of best practices to achieve operational and functional excellence.
• Stay informed of industry trends and emerging opportunities to maintain competitive advantage and support business growth.

To qualify for this role, you will need to demonstrate:

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or related field, is desirable.
• Demonstrable relevant experience in similar industries, markets, and roles, including significant exposure in operations management and commercial leadership roles.
• Strong financial management skills including budgeting, forecasting, and cost management.
• Exhibit a profound understanding of P&L performance management.
• Proven track record of implementing lean and continuous improvement methodologies.
• High degree of self-motivation and strong ability to build and lead high-performing teams.
• Customer-focused, strategic thinking, team worker, and results-oriented.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to adapt the message and communication style to the audience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and experience in project management.
• Willingness to travel, nationally and internationally.
• Advanced SAP knowledge and experience is advantageous.

Benefits of working with us:

We want to make working with us a great experience, one where our team members feel supported, recognized, and empowered to do their best work. We offer globally benchmarked salary packages, a generous annual profit-share bonus scheme, pension, life assurance and medical benefits, and a range of appropriate allowances and remuneration options appropriate to the role and country you are based in.

Burckhardt Compression is committed to fair and equitable hiring and employment practices which aim to ensure our employees are representative of the communities in which we operate. We do not discriminate based on age, race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, faith, parenthood, or family dynamics.

Burckhardt Compression creates leading compression solutions for a sustainable energy future and the long-term success of its customers. The Group is the only global manufacturer that covers a full range of reciprocating compressor technologies and services. Since 1844, its passionate, customer-oriented, and solution-driven workforce has set the benchmark in the gas compression industry.