Electrical Reliability Specialist

• Work Close to Home - Stable and Growing FMCG
• Hands-on Role working with a terrific Leadership Team

Real Pet Food Company (RPF) is passionate about feeding our pets the real food they deserve – filled with nutrients, free from harmful substances and full of flavour. At RPF we believe in staying real and doing the right thing by our pets, our fellow pet parents, and our planet. We strive to lead the industry through thoughtful innovation with real and recognisable ingredients, ethical and sustainable sourcing, and limiting processed food our pets consume. We want pets to live their best lives – helping them to grow up strong, healthy, and happy.

We are a fast-growing, innovative FMCG Manufacturer with strong ethics and a love for keeping it real. Our success comes from having a great team of people behind some pet favourite brands such as Ivory Coat, Farmers Market, Nature's Gift, Trilogy & Fussy Cat

This is where you come in:

We are looking for an experienced, disciplined and innovative Electrical Engineer who is looking to join a rapidly growing Company. The focus of this business-critical roleis to ensurethe reliability of the plant to meet the required KPI's in a safe and cost-effective manner. This role will also establish and drive maintenance practices in accordance with the corporate procedures to ensure standardisation of site maintenance and reporting. Ensuring compliance with processes and procedures to ensure identification of business improvements and RCA practices to eliminate repeated issues is a major focus.

Responsibilities include:

• Ensure plant and equipment breakdowns are dealt with in a prompt, safe and efficient manner
• Assist in establishing and maintaining an optimum level of spares
• Maximise line efficiencies through the establishment of an effective planned maintenance program
• Monitor equipment failure rate, analyse data, and drive root cause analysis & initiatives to continuously improve performance
• Reduce the total number of quarantine investigations through machinery faults
• Reduce rework generation through machinery faults
• Lead cross functional problem solving & root cause analysis to improve equipment efficiency
• Establish enhanced collaborative working culture across all shifts
• Assist in providing coaching to direct electrical team to ensure they are developing and have clear growth pathways for their career development

The ideal candidate:

• Experience within the FMCG industry
• Excellent communication skills, high level interpersonal skills and sound judgement
• Ability to deal with multiple stakeholders and handle competing priorities
• Excellent organisation and time management skills
• Able to influence, manage and challenge ideas and existing business processes
• Experience in implementing systems and process changes
• Experience in managing projects
• Sound knowledge across the Microsoft office suite
• Experience in managing maintenance operations utilising computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• Comprehensive understanding of maintenance planning, including budget control
• Electrical trade or engineering qualifications or equivalent professional experience in the field of engineering is essential

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 restless, creating a better life for our pets.

Make an impact and change the game. You won't be another 'cog in the wheel' here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to do your best work – and to make a real difference. 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 Pawrental leave when you adopt a new cat or dog, pet carer and compassionate leave.

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 Next steps will include:

• An initial telephone interview followed by 2 face to face interviews
• 2 work references
• A 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 accommodations: people&. 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