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SalarySimplot Australia is a food manufacturing and agriculture business encompassing potato, vegetable, seafood, and sauce operations that supply a wide range of frozen, shelf-stable and chilled products to Australia and New Zealand’s major retail and food service customers.
As a leading provider of quality, nourishing and sustainable food, we are focused on creating food Australians and New Zealanders love by maximising value from the best Australian-grown produce and global seafood. Our iconic brands have been an integral part of Australian life for generations, and include the likes of Leggo’s, Birds Eye, Edgell, John West and Chiko.
We have five manufacturing sites in Australia and six sales sites and employ almost 2000 people across these operations. We are an integral part of the global J.R. Simplot Company.
Culture and Benefits
At Simplot, we are fueled by our purpose: We Contribute to Feeding Our World. We imagine a better future and set goals to reach it. We are committed to working as one Simplot and are guided by our shared values:
- Respect for Resources
- Spirit of Innovation
- Passion for People
Simplot is passionate about cultivating a future where good ideas and inspiring possibilities have the chance to grow. We want our team members to build exciting and fulfilling careers with us and offer professional and personal growth opportunities.
The Perks
- Diverse leadership development programs and professional development support
- Fully supplied & laundered uniform + boots + PPE
- On-site subsided canteen
- Employee recognition program
- Bonus incentives
- Discounted health insurance
- Novated car leasing agreements
- Income protection insurance
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
An exciting opportunity exists for the permanent full-time position of IT Infrastructure Engineer at our Devonport food manufacturing facility. Simplot Devonport is the last producer of scale of frozen vegetables in Australia and has a proud history in the local community since 1942. We employ over 300 people and process products including peas, beans, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower and onions that are grown by our local Tasmanian growers.
Reporting to the APAC IT Manager (Melbourne based) and forming part of Simplot's Global IT team, this role will focus on delivering IT operational excellence and supporting our manufacturing requirements at our Devonport site. The successful candidate will contribute to the architecture, engineering and administration of Simplot's Global IT standard operating environments and will install, configure, maintain and integrate system software & hardware components whilst collaborating with the wider IT team to ensure platform capabilities and functionality align with our customer demands.
What You Will Do
- Facilitate the interactions between control systems and enterprise IT.
- Proactive monitoring and metrics of systems and services on a global basis to ensure high availability, and performance for seamless business technology operations.
- Performance, availability, health and recoverability of Simplot IT systems.
- Collaborating with other IT teams to ensure platform capabilities and functionality align with our customer demands.
- Research, evaluate, and recommend new and emerging technologies to meet Simplot business needs.
- Analyze, resolve and perform root cause analysis for serious systems failures that impact the performance or functionality of Simplot systems.
- Assist in defining and documenting IT policies, procedures, and standards related to supported systems.
- Ensure compliance to IT standards, policies and software licensing.
- Ensure the operational health of a mission-critical environment across a Global IT infrastructure.
- Provide technical consulting and assistance for Global IT teams and projects.
- Track and report on all team key metrics and maintain factory reporting systems.
- Documenting of IT policies, procedures, and standards related to supported systems.
- Ensure compliance to IT standards, policies and software licensing.
- Ensure the operational health of a mission-critical environment across Global IT infrastructure.
- Identify opportunities to improve and automate work to improve outcomes and reduce cost.
- Install, configure, maintain, and integrate system software and hardware.
- Monitor and tune systems to improve performance.
- Support site engineering teams with factory systems maintenance and provide general IT support.
- Work with key vendors to engineer and support Simplot IT and business solutions.
- Provide general IT support to site users.
You will be a dynamic and collaborative individual and ideally hold tertiary qualifications in IT &/or Business related discipline. You are a customer-focused individual who has the ability to present, explain and coach on technical systems, problems and outcomes to a non-technical audience. You will exhibit and provide examples around your exceptional communication skills, your influencing insight, and will have a strong analysis, assessment focus and move beyond traditional ways of doing things with your fresh and innovative approach to ideas and solutions.
- Experience in IT support with strong experience with desktop environments (OS, hardware, network)
- Exceptional troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with business IT applications
- SQL experience and Business data analysis is preferred
- Customer / vendor Management
- Knowledge of, and experience in ITIL foundation would be advantageous
- Networking experience is preferred
APPLICATIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT THURSDAY 15th FEBRUARY 2024 - Simplot reserve the right to commence recruitment activities prior to advert closing date.
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Job Requisition ID: 17132
Travel Required: Less than 10%
Location(s): SAPL Plant Devonport - Quoiba
Country: Australia
Simplot is an equal opportunity employer and encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply. If you feel you would be a great addition to our team please apply online today, we would love to hear from you. If you require technical assistance, please email us at
