Maintenance Mechanical Tradesperson

Lyka is an Australian founded pet wellness company that’s shaking up an outdated industry and paving the way for happier, healthier pets. Sadly, statistics have shown us that approximately eighty percent of pets are suffering from dental disease, with one in every three being diagnosed with cancer, and forty-one percent overweight. As humans we are acutely aware of the positive impact fresh wholefoods can have on our health and wellbeing, however the same hasn’t always been said for our furry friends. We're on a mission to change that, starting with nutritionally balanced, wholefood meals delivered direct to doors around Australia. As the world’s most sustainable pet wellness company, we’re putting pets and our planet first.

Today, we are proud to share we’ve served and fed over 10 million meals to puppersand their parents across Australia, and this is just the beginning. Our vision is to create multiple nutritional products, adding disease prevention meals and supplements, and take Lyka into new markets.

Currently, we have a team of 140 pet-obsessed people on our team who share our vision. These carefully selected people are dedicated to building the next generation of technology and products to help empower pet parents to take control over their pet’s wellbeing. To date, we have raised over $40M in funding from our venture fund investments and pet industry insiders, who believe in our mission and ability to drive change in an outdated industry, providing nutrition that nourishes puppers from the inside out.

Are you ready to shake things up and give pets the life they deserve? Come join your people.

**The Team**

Lyka is growing and is on the hunt for an exceptional Maintenance Mechanical Tradesperson that will be responsible for providing quality customer service to our customers through the daily preventative and reactive maintenance tasks across our manufacturing sites at Wetherill Park and Baulkham Hills. This will include motivation, training, reporting and problem solving on a daily basis.

**The **R**ole**

If you work well under pressure and want a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to grow your professional skills, this role is for you.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Providing technical input into reactive and planned root cause analysis
- Planning and conducting regular preventative maintenance for building, machinery, and equipment assets
- Managing and ordering inventory for spare parts and consumables
- Coach production workers to utilise machinery and equipment appropriately to reduce the risk of breakdowns and injuries
- Develop and ensure adherence to maintenance SOPs
- Coordinate, assist and learn from OEMs/trades/contractors where necessary
- Ensuring compliance of Lyka's safety policies and procedures and other statutory and legal requirements
- Building key regular relationships including but not limited to other members of the DS site leadership team, technical and manufacturing stakeholders at other sites, manufacturing operators, and external suppliers
- Asset reliability and continuous improvement program
- Compliance with required safety systems and procedures including JSA/SWMS/permits to work including but not limited to Working at Height, Hot Work and Confined Space Entry
- Compliance with all Lyka policies, standards, and procedures.
- Promote safety and risk management initiatives
- Meet organisational requirements for expected workplace behaviours, quality assurance, health and safety, and environmental policies and general duty of care.
- Compliance with all food regulatory standards e.g. HACCP requirements.
- Observe and comply with all GMP requirements.

**Requirements**:
Training and Development
- Attend and complete training as required
- Willingness to attend any training deemed relevant to the position
- Occasional transfer of basic maintenance skills and knowledge to competent operations personnel e.g. lubrication.

Skills and Knowledge
- Minimum of two years post apprenticeship experience in FMCG manufacturing facility - preferably within the food manufacturing industry.
- Reliable, motivated and punctual
- Strong attention to detail.
- Proactive approach to maintenance
- Ability to work both as a team member and alone in an autonomous manner.
- Good planning, communication, organisation and problem-solving skills
- Commitment to embrace continuous improvement methodologies both in using these directly and embedding as part of a team
- Strong technical aptitude.
- Ability to maintain cross functional relationships

**Benefits**
- Work in a fast-growing start-up, experiencing what goes behind the scenes to sustain hyper-growth for a start-up with a physical product
- Growth and Development - Lyka is growing extremely quickly, which means you will have the opportunity to experience different challenges every day and progressively acquire more responsibilities as our facility and team expands. We provide an annual L&D budget for you to continue your personal d