The Company

Our client is one of the largest and leading FMCG manufacturing businesses in Australia within their category. They are seeking an experienced Maintenance Coordinator to join their team to continue driving improvements to supply their customers with products of the highest quality.

The Role

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, your responsibilities will include;

• Facilitate and manage day-to-day maintenance activities and processes.
• Manage and standardise preventative, corrective and condition-based maintenance systems ensuring plant availability.
• Ensure that maintenance requirements are met and within the parameters of safety, cost, and maintenance schedules.
• Lead and develop the maintenance strategies and team within the plant, ensuring KPI’s around OEE, machine reliability, uptime, stoppages, and OH&S are adhered to.
• Deliver reactive and preventative maintenance support to ensure plant has minimal lost time due to mechanical failures/faults.
• Take a CI approach to increasing productivity and efficiency.
• Assist and manage the implementation of quality management systems and food safety systems.
• Prepare regular reports on status of maintenance activities around the site.

Your Background

To be successful in this role, you will have the following experience:

• Ideally trades background - Fitter or Electrician.
• Experience working within a fast-paced manufacturing sector, ideally within the food or beverage manufacturing space, but also open to heavy industries.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in supervisory or leadership roles.
• Formal qualifications or training in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) techniques and Continuous Improvement (CI) methodologies such as 5S, Lean, and/or Six Sigma - Highly regarded.
• Extensive experience developing and implement maintenance strategies to bring about a proactive and preventative maintenance culture.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, along with excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Proven ability to lead and manage large teams of maintenance trades within a manufacturing setting.

What's on Offer

In return, you will have the chance to work with a leading company in the FMCG manufacturing sector, with a strong emphasis on training and career development.
If you'd like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact Maurice Tranchina at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7413.