Address- Be part of our state-of-the-art future at our greenfield site at Orchard Hills, whilst being instrumental in the closure of our Blacktown site
- Like the idea of a role where you can REALLY make the role your own?
- Looking for a permanent role in the fast-paced world of food manufacturing?
We’re on the hunt for a strategic thinker and strong people leader to join our Snack Brands Australia team in the role of Maintenance and Engineering Manager. Reporting to the Site Operations Manager, this game changing role will be based at our Blacktown and Orchard Hills manufacturing sites working on a permanent basis.
About Us:
Here at Snack Brands Australia, we proudly make some of Australia’s favourite snacks including CC’s, Thins, Cheezels, Kettles and The Natural Chip Company. Across our two sites, we make over 200 million packets of chips a year - that's a lot of enjoyment and fun we bring to snackers every day! We encourage a culture that is exciting, challenging and we strive for innovation in everything we do. Our aim is for our people to share in our success, enjoy our products and reap the benefits of their hard work within a supportive environment where work life balance is encouraged!
About the Role:
You will also set the strategic direction of the function and drive an engaged and motivated team to deliver performance outputs.
You’d be joining the business as we embark of a period of significant growth and would be a key player in the team creating our future with our new world class manufacturing facility!
What you’ll be responsible for:
- Leading a maintenance and reliability team onsite, owning safety, planned work execution and equipment performance.
- Lead the site through a ‘transition with excellence’ period into a purpose built, state of the art manufacturing facility.
- Developing your team and be a true leader driving the success of the team.
- Forward thinking and ensuring preventative maintenance program is in place.
- Lead planning team in scheduled maintenance activities
- Financial management and budgets for the department
- Support continuous improvement efforts using Lean, DMAIC, Kaizen, Six Sigma methodologies.
- Lead the team driving whole site improvements through excellent leadership
- Actively maintain spare parts to ensure uptime across the site and ensure adequate stock control measures are embedded.
What you’ll bring to the role?
- Ideally 5+ years of proven experience in a leadership role
- Ideally, qualified with a relevant qualification (ie: Engineering)
- Experience working in a formal improvement methodology Lean/TPM/IWS
- Sound understanding of technical issues and operational processes in relation to facilities management.
- Proven experience in managing finances and budgets, supported relevant reporting and analysis.
- Be a driver for continuous improvement processes
- Excellent presentation, negotiation, communication, and relationship building skills.
- Exceptional organisational, time management and planning skills – you can juggle multiple balls at any time!
What can you expect in return?
A supportive working environment (with plenty of snacks on hand!) where you'll feel engaged and valued, career growth, Birthday Leave, Rewards on major retailers, onsite parking and a focus on health and wellness (like Wellbeing Days!) to make your workplace more enjoyable!
If you have the experience we are looking for and you wish to join a company where you can have pride and passion in what you do, please APPLY NOW and submit your application form below!
