Maintenance Fitter - Food Manufacturing (Ermington)

Maintenance Fitter - Food Manufacturing

Tip Top Ermington

(Full-Time)

We are a leading food manufacturer offering rewarding career opportunities, attractive remuneration and continuous learning and development.

• Supportive, inclusive and friendly Maintenance Team with a strong safety culture.
• Permanent role with rotating shifts to achieve work-life balance.
• Benefits include free products to take home, on-site Gym and Physio.

We are Australia's leading brand of quality bread and bakery products, producing a diverse range of wholesome sliced bread, gourmet bread, muffins, crumpets and bakery snacks. Iconic brands include Tip Top, Bürgen, Golden and Abbott's Bakery.

About the Role:

Our Maintenance team is vital to the day-to-day success of Tip Top and we currently have an opportunity for an experienced Fitter to join our Ermington Bakery team. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with other site Fitters, Electricians and Production teams to achieve high levels of plant optimisation and ensuring all relevant documentation is completed.

As an integral member of the Maintenance team, you will be responsible for the maintenance, repair and improvement of equipment to ensure optimal plant performance, managing planned repairs and unplanned breakdowns effectively while maintaining best practice and safety standards.

The successful applicant will operate on a rotating roster, which provides a generous work life balance!

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Working safely and ensuring the safety of those around you.
• The delivery of reliable, efficient and safe routine preventative maintenance activities.
• Diagnosing and troubleshooting issues with plant and machinery.
• Responding to breakdowns through prioritising and carrying out repairs in a safe manner.
• Working with the Maintenance Manager and Supervisors to conduct root cause analysis on failures and ensuring follow up on identified actions.
• Maintaining all registers, logs and systems to track repairs, notifications and work activities.
• Liaise with Production Supervisors and machine operators about performance of equipment.
• Develop & maintain a close and collaborative working relationships across the Maintenance, Production, Planning and Engineering teams.

About You:

• Trade certification as a Mechanical Fitter.
• A safety mindset with a strong commitment to ensuring a safe work environment for yourself and others.
• Demonstrated experience as an industrial Fitter, preferably in Food Manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of CMMS (MEX preferred).
• Ability to diagnose equipment issues and identify problems at root cause.
• The ability to build relationships with key stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.
• Your forklift license, working at heights and confined space tickets would be highly regarded.

About Us

We are Australia's leading brand of quality bread and bakery products. Chances are that one of our iconic brands is sitting on your table, packed in your lunchbox or resting in your pantry right now, as well as supplying leading quick service restaurants and the commercial food service channel.

Join the team and be part of one of our iconic brands like Tip Top, Abbotts Bakery, Bürgen and Golden.

Apply Now

To apply for this opportunity please submit your application by clicking on the 'apply now' button or please feel free to contact Louise Nguyen at Louise.Nguyen@gwf.com.au for a confidential discussion.

During the recruitment process you may be required to complete our pre-employment screening tests including a medical check with a drug and alcohol test and a criminal record check.

At Tip Top we strive to create a place where Everyone belongs, Everyone is valued, and Everyone has equal opportunity.

We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disability.

So we can get to know you in the best possible way, we're happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs. Let us know your needs in providing a positive, barrier-free recruitment process via the above telephone number or email to Louise.Nguyen@gwf.com.au