Mechanical Project Engineer

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Mondelēz International empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We're leading the future of snacking with iconic global and local brands such as Oreo, Cadbury, Philadelphia, Pascall, The Natural Confectionery Company, Belvita, Ritz and Toblerone with global revenues exceeding $31 billion USD.

Reporting to the Capital Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of end to end delivery of capital projects, providing strong leadership across technical development, feasibility assessments, and execution of engineering activities within the supply chain of our Claremont Cadbury Site. This role demands a high level of collaboration and agility, ensuring all projects meet Mondelēz's rigorous standards for safety, quality, environmental compliance, and performance.

How you will contribute

As a key contributor to our dynamic engineering team at the Claremont site, you will lead the planning, design, and implementation phases of a wide variety of capital projects from automation and process improvements to infrastructure upgrades and new equipment installations. You will be expected to manage technical detail while balancing stakeholder engagement, budget control, risk management, and alignment with business goals.

You will be a champion of Mondelēz 's project management and innovation processes, driving adherence to global standards while leveraging your engineering background and project leadership capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to work across diverse functions of engineering, operations, procurement, quality, and safety in a fast paced, high performing FMCG environment.

Whether you're an experienced project engineer ready to lead or a project manager with a strong technical foundation, this position offers the scope to apply your skills across the full project lifecycle and make a significant impact on our manufacturing performance and capability growth.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Project management skills and Execution - managing engineering resources, people management and development needs. Ensure compliance with Mondelez standards in business and innovation processes in project management
• Leading to work effectively across cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders, working within the capital engineering team and key stakeholders to deliver the capital and technical agenda of your allocated projects during the development phase of capital investment projects
• Senior-level technical expertise across engineering disciplines

More about this role

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Minimum 5+ years' experience working in FMCG, preferably food and beverage industries. Experience in confectionary process's is highly advantageous.
• Strong & agile project management skills
• Experience in food processing, automation and packaging systems such as; Batch preparation and processing & Automation solutions experience including AGV systems, SCADA & instrumentations
• Conveying and palletising systems
• High speed packing solutions
• Australian standards and regulatory compliance knowledge and experience
• IECEX & ATEX standards(hazardous dust control) will be regarded advantageous
• Building management systems and services knowledge

Business Unit Summary

At Mondelez International, our mission is to provide consumers with the right snack, for the right moment, made in the right way. We are one of the largest snack companies in the world, with global net revenues exceeding $31 billion USD.

We have operations in more than 80 countries and employ approximately 91,000 diverse and talented employees in our factories, offices, research & development facilities and distribution activities around the world.

In Australia and New Zealand, we have 6 factories, and both global and local brands, employing over 2,000 people; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Oreo, Toblerone, Philadelphia, belVita, Pascall, The Natural Confectionery Company, Sour Patch Kids and Ritz.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.