Maintenance and Reliability Manager

The Company

Sanitarium is a progressive and dynamic business that is Australian owned and produces Australia’s leading breakfast products – Up & Go, So Good, Alternative Dairy Co range and Australia’s favourite breakfast Weet-Bix.

The Position                           

We are looking for a full time Reliability (Maintenance) Manager to join our Manufacturing Reliability team at our Berkeley Vale manufacturing site. The main purpose of the role is to manage the maintenance coordination and activities at site to meet expectations on lines servicing and managing the service protocols. Supervising daily work, work schedules and CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System). Provide regular communication and high level customer support to the Leadership Production team, focusing on high level service while achieving plant reliability. Also provides technical support by training and troubleshooting to maintenance and manufacturing employees.

The Person

The successful candidate will have good coordination skills and be able to hold service providers to account. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of demonstrating constructive behaviours within the workplace to be able to:

• Directly supervise all employees in the Maintenance Team.
• Communicates directly with the production and operations departments to coordinate maintenance and repair work in process areas.
• Oversees asset care and be able to prioritise issues.
• Develop, promote and maintain constructive relationships with customers and stakeholders by delivering quality customer service.
• Assists with planning and implementing plant improvements and expansions.
• Conducts employee performance reviews and coaches employees to enhance competency, knowledge, and contribution of the maintenance technicians.
• Maintains and updates operating and training manuals for the maintenance department.
• Ensure department is efficient, cost effective, accurate and delivers reliability results.
• Ensures that maintenance technicians are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Monitors and oversees the operation of plant equipment and systems.
• Reviews the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly, to minimise unplanned downtime, anticipate solve problems in a timely manner, and to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Role model safe work practices.

Qualifications / Experience required

• Relevant trade or engineering qualification
• Ideally minimum 5 years broad industry experience in food or beverages manufacturing.
• Leadership and coaching training.
• Solid experience delivering objectives through others within financial constraints.
• Demonstrated conceptual, analytical and problem solving skills in an multidisciplinary environment

The selection process will include interviews, online and functional testing as well as internal reference checking.

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the legal right to work in Australia.

We are an organisation driven by our mission and values. If you share our passion for what we do, our products and can respect our principles then this is a great opportunity for you. 

Hear why our employee’s love working at Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing, where people and purpose matter.  https://www.sanitarium.com.au/about/join-our-team/working-at-sanitarium