The Company

This food processing business with many product categories is going through a significant period of change due to strong growth. Focussed on driving efficiencies through people, systems and process this is an opportunity to be at the forefront of their evolution. This role will also be part of the management team and critical to the businesses success into the future.

The Role

Reporting to ANZ Operations Director, you will have responsibility across a nation footprint of manufacturing sites, overseeing and guiding all engineering activities including:

• Capital deployment, process improvement, and systems development to meet the businesses objectives.
• Optimise the utilisation of capital and materials to achieve objectives.
• Stay up to date on industry developments that could benefit the efficient and safe operation of manufacturing processes.
• Your role will be pivotal in guiding all areas of the reliability functions on all sites, making a significant contribution to the smooth operation of all manufacturing sites.
• Update and create procedures for business reliability functions.
• Ensure asset registers are fully incorporated into MEX.
• Contribute to all aspects of capital projects, including design, some budget submissions, investigations, ordering of equipment, supervision/liaison with contractors, commissioning, and monitoring.
• Contract negotiation and contract compliance assurance for capital works.
• Take charge of and guarantee the efficient management of site reliability, project, and capital budgets.
• Ensuring asset compliance requirements are well considered prior to new projects executions.

Your Background

• Tertiary or trade qualified in Engineering / Maintenance.
• Extensive experience in a Engineering / Maintenance Management role. Those with experience with a multi-site remit will be looked at very favourably.
• Strong background in being able to successfully implement positive cultural change.
• Proven ability in developing and implementing preventative maintenance systems and processes.
• You will also have experience in a complex manufacturing environment and be adept at leading multi discipline teams, and will be able to demonstrate strong influencing skills with both internal and external stakeholders.

What’s On Offer

This role has fantastic career potential for those wanting to be part of a successful and growing multination FMCG organisation. If you would like to discuss this opportunity further you can contact Ricky Phare at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7403.