Maintenance Manager

 Spring Gully Foods (SGF) is an Adelaide based food manufacturer specialising in pickled vegetables, pickles, relishes, sauces, and honey. The company started in 1946 and was incorporated as Spring Gully Pickles in 1966 by representatives from three families.

SGF’s flagship brand, Spring Gully, began when founder Ted McKee gifted pickled onions to customers of the produce he grew in Adelaide’s foothills. As Ted’s onions grew to become more popular amongst local grocers, he established a pickling shed at his home in Rostrevor and expanded the product range to include gherkins, pickles, and sauces. The recipes developed by Ted and the early founders for the Spring Gully brand are still in market today. 

As the business matured and became more established in the South Australian market, ventures into neighbouring states began and during the 1980’s the brand grew and was sold across Australia.

SGF has acquired two additional brands: Gardener and Leabrook Farms. The Gardener brand is a value brand offering affordable and great tasting honey, jam, and relishes. Gardner’s range of products is available at Woolworths nationally. Leabrook Farms is a premium honey brand acquired from the Coopers Brewery in the early 2000’s and has since expanded its range into pickle vegetable.

To scale its operation, SGF began collaborating with retailers and other manufacturers to produce quality products under contract arrangements. The business now operates in five market segments within the food manufacturing sector: retail, food service, private label, industrial and co-manufacture; supplying some of the country’s largest manufacturers and retailers.

Maintenance Manager

As Maintenance Manager at Spring Gully Foods, you will participate in a high performing team and provide maintenance direction to all areas of operations including Safety, Quality, Production, Processing, Bottling and Packaging. You will be accountable for directing the preventative and reactive maintenance activities to ensure products are manufactured on-schedule and within the desired quality and cost standards. 

The Maintenance Manager reports to Head of Operations and is responsible for one 3rd year apprentice. You will engage with a range of external stakeholders including regulators, suppliers, and contractors.

Key Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Head of Operations, the successful candidate is responsible for implementing and executing the ‘reliability strategy’ across the Spring Gully Site.
• Overseeing the planning and implementation of the upkeep and maintenance of various schedules for machinery, buildings, mechanical systems, and structures.
• Engage and direct contractors including boiler, electrical, fitting and turning, chemical, general maintenance and minor capital works around site.
• Inspect and troubleshoot unforeseen issues as they arise.
• Support the manufacturing facility by achieving operational excellence targets through optimising machine uptime and utilisation.
• Monitor expenses and control the budget for maintenance.
• Implement the role in a thriving and challenging factory environment demonstrating high standards of WHS, Hygiene, Food Safety & Quality

Your qualifications and skills

• SafeWork SA licences involving high risk work, forklift etc (or ability to acquire)
• Driver’s licence or ability to reliably attend site.
• Experience in identifying and delivering on continuous improvement projects; ideally within a 5S / Lean Manufacturing framework.
• Sound knowledge of food manufacturing processes, Quality systems, WHS, GMP, HACCP, EPA and food safety standards and systems.
• A sound understanding of quality, safety, performance management, employee engagement, budget matters, customer satisfaction and other business-related matters in order explain, resolve and implement them appropriately.
• Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure / cost or poor quality; able to encourage a strong customer-focus and build understanding of customer perspectives within the team.

About you at work

• Strong management experience in a fast paced, highly pressurised FMCG environment.
• Effective communicator with the ability to foster a positive working relationship with co-workers.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills, including computer literacy competency.
• Strong problem-solving skills, able to recognise cause and affects.
• Passion and commitment to attention to detail and conscious of quality of products
• Self-starter, results focussed and can work unsupervised.
• Commitment to professional growth and development
• Able to plan and think ahead to prepare action plans to achieve results.

 Application must be submitted via,  **************@springgullyfoods.com.au and must include a current CV, response to the selection criteria and a covering letter. Shortlisted applicants will be asked to provide at least 2 professional referees upon request.