Challenges in Managing Maintenance & Reliability Across Multiple Sites
Managing maintenance, reliability and asset performance across several plants brings a unique set of challenges. You want to establish common standards and scale successful practices, while giving each site enough autonomy to respond to its local reality. You need to compare performance fairly, share scarce expertise and ensure that strategies agreed at corporate level are consistently translated into practice.
At the same time, a multi-site role can be a relatively isolated one. Few colleagues within your organisation face exactly the same combination of strategic, operational and organisational questions.
During this live webinar, experienced multi-site leaders Jos Vermylen (TotalEnergies) and Jan Sinnaeve (former La Lorraine Bakery Group and PepsiCo) share their perspectives on the role, its added value and the challenges they encounter in practice. We also unveil the new Multi-Site Asset Performance Community: a trusted peer network where professionals responsible for multiple sites can compare approaches, exchange experience and jointly explore practical solutions.
The webinar concludes with a preview of the Community’s first live meeting, taking place on 19 November 2026 during Asset Performance in Antwerp.
Contents of the webinar
1. Welcome and introduction
2. Multi-Site Leadership: Importance and Challenges
- Meet the multi-site leaders and discover their roles and experience
- Strategic value of coordinating maintenance and asset performance across sites
- Key challenges of balancing standardisation, local autonomy and cross-site collaboration
3. Kick-off of the Multi-Site Asset Performance Community
- Why BEMAS takes this initiative and how participants can benefit from the community
- Preview of the first live meeting on Nov 19th 2026
4. Q&A and End
During this webinar, you discover what the role of a multi-site maintenance or asset leader involves, from strategic and operational responsibilities to the balance between local and corporate roles. We explore how a coordinated multi-site approach helps scale successful practices, improve consistency and strengthen collaboration between plants. You also hear how other leaders address recurring challenges such as balancing standardisation with local autonomy, translating methodologies into daily practice, and sharing knowledge and specialised resources across sites.
The webinar explains why peer exchange is particularly valuable for multi-site leaders and introduces the Multi-Site Asset Performance Community, with three focused online peer sessions, one annual face-to-face meeting and an agenda shaped by its members. Finally, you receive a preview of the first live Community meeting on 19 November, covering multi-site maintenance contracts, scalable contractor management, uniform maintenance methodologies and facilitated peer discussions. Join us to meet the Community facilitators and discover whether this new network is relevant to your role.
About the speakers
Jos Vermylen – VP Industrial Assets & Joint Ventures, TotalEnergies
Jos Vermylen has more than 30 years of experience in operational and industrial leadership. He previously served as Director Operations of the TotalEnergies Antwerp refinery, where he was responsible for the operations and maintenance of the refinery and its naphtha cracker. His experience includes maintenance, operations, turnaround management and the broader business challenges facing asset-intensive organisations.
Jan Sinnaeve – Managing Consultant, Mainnovation
Jan Sinnaeve has extensive hands-on experience in developing and implementing maintenance and technical services strategies across large multi-site organisations. During his career at PepsiCo, he held several European maintenance roles, including responsibility for maintenance strategies across multiple food and beverage sites, the rollout of common maintenance methodologies and CMMS standardisation across more than 90 sites.
Continue the conversation in Antwerp
The webinar offers a first introduction to the Multi-Site Asset Performance Community. On 19 November 2026, the Community meets in Antwerp for an interactive morning on multi-site maintenance contracts, scalable contractor management and uniform maintenance methodologies across sites.
Join practical presentations and facilitated roundtable discussions with peers facing similar challenges. Participation is free for eligible multi-site leaders.
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