Maintenance Manager

Leading FMCG organisation
- Hands on operational leadership role
- Based at our Canberra Manufacturing facility

At Goodman Fielder our purpose is to make everyday food better for everyone. We own a host of iconic brands that generations of Australians have grown up with and put in their supermarket trolleys every week, including Helga's, Wonder White, Praise, White Wings, Meadow Lea, La Famiglia and many more.
At Goodman Fielder our aspiration is to be the leading integrated food business in the region. We are a team that believes that anything is possible. A team that understands our business and focuses on the right things that make the biggest difference and one that considers our end to end value chain when making decisions to optimize our business. We drive change as an opportunity for us to innovate and transform our business and to achieve beyond what we think is possible.

**About the Opportunity**:
We are currently looking for a Maintenance Manager to join us at our Canberra manufacturing site. Leading a small maintenance team this role will participate and lead the maintenance strategy drive the maintenance program onsite.

**Key deliverables**:

- Be the driving key member in continuous improvement in plant reliability, availability & maintenance systems in general.
- Participate & lead maintenance strategy development & continuous improvement of maintenance processes & systems
- Manage/ oversee capital spending projects from design through to installation for plant equipment and maintenance
- Manage maintenance projects and daily processes to budgeted levels
- Coordinate special projects for Engineering
- Oversee capital spending and expense projects related to an assigned area
- Project and capital tracking (GANT chart etc)
- Reports completed in relation to projects
- Monitor maintenance activities at assigned plant & provide direction to embed national directives
- Support site objectives in process control, project management, improvements to reliability & waste controls.
- Cost Control, ensuring that budgets are met on R&M, wages and overtime and projects.
- Lead and mentor team to achieve success

**To be successful in this role you will need**:

- Engineering Qualification - Mechanical/ Electrical
- Knowledge of commercial high-speed bakery equipment
- Proven ability establishing and implementing equipment preventative maintenance programs
- Understanding of baking ovens, conveying systems, robotics, PLC's (programmable logic controls), mixers, blender, packaging equipment and other specialised baking plant equipment
- Use and repair of facility and equipment electrical systems, mechanical systems, heating and air conditioning systems, boilers, overheads and structures
- Read and interpret electrical and mechanical blueprints and equipment schematics
- Troubleshoot malfunctioning equipment and systems to make timely corrections
- Personal computer skills - literate in MS Excel, MS Word, AutoCAD and PC Logic
- Ability to support a factory & a team in a continuous manufacturing environment.

What can we offer you?
With operations sites spanning across Australia, working as part of a highly driven team at Goodman Fielder, you can expect the opportunity to build your own home-grown career across functions, locations and brands. At Goodman Fielder, we aim to be a destination employer in the food industry where we don't just offer jobs - we offer long term careers.
For more information about us or to learn about other roles available at Goodman Fielder, please visit our careers page and register your details so that we can notify you of jobs which interest you.