An exciting opportunity for a Sustainability Officer looking to join a dynamic business in the rapidly growing pet industry.

• Fast growing, global organisation within the pet food industry!
• Develop your career with a growing business!
• Dubbo location - Work Close to Home

About the role

We are looking for a Sustainability Officer to help manage utility use and environmental practices at our facilities. This role supports efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and promote sustainability. The Officer works with external partners, like service providers and engineering teams, to ensure efficient utility use and compliance with environmental standards. They also encourage site teams to adopt energy-saving practices.

As the point person for energy initiatives, the Officer follows up on action items from Energy and Sustainability meetings to share best practices across the facility. By working closely with key stakeholders, this role helps maintain compliance with company standards, drive cost savings, and support sustainability goals.

Focusing on energy management, compliance, and sustainability, the Site Facilities Officer plays an important role in addressing challenges and implementing effective solutions.

What you’ll do

• Champion site-wide energy reduction efforts by collaborating with internal teams and external experts to assess and enhance the efficient use of energy across facilities.
• Partner with site leadership and service providers to minimize disruptions from utility breakdowns, ensuring effective maintenance and implementing emergency response protocols.
• Collaborate with the National Environmental Manager and stakeholders to guarantee adherence to EPA regulations and trade waste standards, while driving sustainability initiatives across the site.
• Work alongside safety, maintenance, and engineering teams to ensure critical utility assets meet WHS standards and support timely statutory maintenance to uphold operational reliability.
• Monitor and improve the efficiency of on-site wastewater treatment processes, manage waste tracking records, and coordinate with external partners for effective waste disposal.
• Investigate and implement opportunities to enhance water stewardship and reduce usage, collaborating with external experts to identify innovative technologies that align with sustainability objectives.

You may currently be an Environmental Site Officer, and Engineer with a background and passion for sustainability, or an Operations Officer with experience in facilities management within a large manufacturing environment.

What will help you succeed

• Effective stakeholder management, with the capability to engage with multiple stakeholders and manage competing priorities.
• A Passion to Support energy reduction initiatives, ensuring sustainability goals are met.
• A positive continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to implement and drive recommendations for energy reduction initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence and challenge existing business processes, promoting innovation and improvements.
• Experience in being accountable for waste management processes on-site.
• The ability to interpret Engineering documentation (P&ID and drawings) and Utilities Scada screens. Knowledge and working proficiency in AutoCAD is desirable
• Preferably FMCG experience in the food and manufacturing environment. Some exposure to Food Manufacturing standards in building and facilities requirements would be handy!
• Previous skill in managing maintenance operations using Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and/or Building Management Systems (BMS) is desirable
• Understanding of water utilities (potable, hot, chilled), wastewater, HVAC, boilers, fire detection/suppression/occupancy warning, electrical distribution, compressed air, and refrigeration systems.
• Proven experience in Facilities Management managing hard services (such as but not limited to Boilers, Refrigeration, electrical distribution, chilled/hot/potable town water supply, air compressors).

What we’re about

Welcome to RPF, where we believe in keeping it Real.

Since 1994, we have been Australia and New Zealand’s pioneers in fresher dog and cat nutrition. Our story is one of passion for a better way to care for pets, a belief in fresher nutrition, and an unwavering commitment to delivering this to pet parents and pets worldwide.

We're dedicated to fostering authentic partnerships, encouraging real ambition, and providing real career opportunities for our employees to make a difference.

Real means fresher ingredients and fresher methods. We'll never stop expanding, innovating, and trying new things. We compete in every pet category and channel, creating favourite brands such as Ivory Coat, Nature’s Gift, V.I.P. Petfoods, and Love ‘Em & Fussy Cat!

Since the establishment of RPF, we have grown to over 900 people across Australia and New Zealand, China, Southeast Asia and Europe.

With the pet industry growing rapidly (a $15 billion industry!) and pets becoming increasingly important in our lives and homes, this is a unique opportunity to be a part of our remarkable growth story and advance your career.

Why join us?

Do work that matters. We’re pioneering in a new area of pet food, always striving for fresher. We’re driven to create a better life for our pets.

Make an impact and change the game. We give you the tools and training for you to do your best to support our customers and in turn, their beloved furry companions. Do you have a great idea for a new product or system improvement? We’re all ears!

Growing and global. We’re growing fast! We now have global presence across APAC, and Europe regions and we’re only getting started!

Work with a pack of awesome, genuine people who are passionate about what they do.

Grow your career with us. We’re big believers in lifelong learning. You’ll be given access to LinkedIn Learning, plus opportunities for internal mobility and leadership training to fast-track your career.

Pets our part of our family: Access our Parental leave when you adopt a new cat or dog, and we offer extra pet carer and compassionate leave for when your furry family needs you.

Generous perks including day off for your anniversary, product discounts, volunteering days to help the community, novated leases, a rewards program and parental leave!

What’s next?

If you're ready to unleash your potential and make a real difference in the booming pet industry, then we want to hear from you! If you are successful in securing an interview, you can expect:

• 2 face-to-face interviews
• 2 reference checks
• Pre Employment Medical

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity’s not a buzzword here, it’s in our DNA. Diverse perspectives shape our culture and make our work better. That’s why we’re committed to building inclusive teams that represent a variety of backgrounds and skills. If you need any reasonable adjustments, accessibility assistance or would like to note which pronouns you use at any stage of our hiring process, just contact us at: [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you.

Please note: NO agencies will be considered during this process. We encourage you to refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles.