Maintenance Operations Manager

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Real Pet Food Co Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Operations Manager to join our team at Real Pet Food Co. As a key member of our operations team, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of our site maintenance activities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Direct management and coordination of all planned and unplanned maintenance activities executed by shift maintenance trades on site as well as any external contractors/service providers for breakdown maintenance.
  • Execution of maintenance work, whilst maintaining compliance to Safety and Quality standards.
  • Partnering with the on-site Maintenance Planner, Reliability Specialists, Automation and the Stores Procurement Officer, to ensure site trades scope of any potential corrective maintenance activities.
  • Identify methods to reduce reactive maintenance and unplanned downtime recurrence by leading, coaching and mentoring Maintenance trades in best-in-class maintenance and continuous improvement practices.
  • Propose changes to the PM strategy by working in with Reliability Specialists and the Maintenance Planner, to transition to a proactive/preventative/predict mindset.
  • Ownership and responsibility in delivering the overall site Maintenance strategy set out by the site Engineering & Reliability Manager. Monitoring and adherence to the R&M budget.

What We're Looking For

  • Proven ability in creating a step change in reliability results.
  • Proven leadership skills.
  • Excellent communication as this role will require constant escalation to site leadership and consultation with site trades and external expertise/service providers.
  • Ability to coach and develop, monitor and measure performance and provide direct feedback to multi-disciplinary trades teams.
  • Ability to Balance reliability improvements and site output, whilst still maintaining adherence to R&M budget expenditure.
  • Experience in Maintenance/Reliability/Engineering leadership within a high speed manufacturing environment (FMCG or logistics)
  • Experience managing multi-disciplinary trades teams of greater than 5 per shift.
  • Experience within meat processing, dairy or other similar environments.
  • Engineering and/or post trade qualifications are desirable.

About Us

Welcome to Real Pet Food Co, 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

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.



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