Asset Care Manager

Sugar Australia has an exciting opportunity for an Asset Care Manager to join our team in a permanent full-time capacity, based at our Yarraville VIC site. Reporting to the site Operations Manager, this role will play a crucial part in establishing and leading best practice asset care strategies that support the efficient operation of our Yarraville facility.

**Your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to**:

- Leading and supporting the maintenance team in implementing Yarraville's asset care strategy, ensuring efficient and safe operations.
- Developing and implementing proactive asset care strategies to improve asset performance, reliability, and uptime.
- Managing and optimising maintenance budgets, resources, and critical spare parts to ensure effective asset maintenance.
- Ensuring maintenance activities align with site strategies, business budget requirements, GMP, quality, and safety standards.
- Overseeing maintenance shutdowns, ensuring optimal resource usage and trained supervision to minimise downtime.
- Managing people, plant, and processes to maintain a safe working environment, with a strong commitment to safety protocols and behaviours.
- Driving continuous improvement in predictive and preventative maintenance programs, focusing on cost efficiency.
- Supervising external contractors to ensure 24/7 maintenance coverage across refinery and packing operations.
- Developing and executing a critical asset management framework and maintenance materials strategy
- Providing leadership, coaching, and mentoring to the reliability and maintenance teams.
- Monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to maintenance efficiency, safety, and financial performance. Collaborating with the capital engineering team to ensure new equipment selection, installation, and commissioning align with Yarraville's reliability philosophy and total cost of ownership.

**What we're wanting you to bring to the table**:
This role is ideally suited to someone with extensive experience in heavy asset-based maintenance and leadership in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Minimum of 15 years' experience in engineering/trades, with at least 10 years in a leadership role in maintenance or reliability.
- Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Maintenance, or Asset Management.
- Proven leadership and team management skills, with the ability to coach, mentor, and develop staff.
- Strong business acumen and ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with a strong focus on continuous improvement.
- Experience in a 24/5 or 24/7 continuous manufacturing environment (food industry experience is an advantage).
- SAP experience.
- Knowledge of industrial relations is desirable.

**About Sugar Australia**:
Sugar Australia is the nation's trusted partner in sugar and ingredient solutions enabling our customers to make great products for every home. We own and operate refineries, packing facilities, sugar silo terminals, and warehouse distribution sites across the country. It takes a great team to turn raw sugar into our many food-grade products, and we work hard to make the highest-quality liquid sugars, icings, syrups, and crystals.

You will find our retail products at your local supermarket under the iconic CSR sugar brand. We also supply refined sugar products and many other ingredients to the industrial, foodservice, and hospitality industries, supplying some of the largest brands in the country.

When joining the Sugar Australia team, you can expect to be part of a passionate and inclusive work environment that supports business growth and people development within a values-led culture. In return, you'll be remunerated with a competitive pay, onsite parking, access to an EAP provider, and access to our product library for those passionate bakers at heart.

Come work with us and make a difference

**Job Details**:

- Reference #
- 46861
- Posted on
- 10 Jan 2025
- Closes on
- 07 Feb 2025 23:55
- Location(s)
- Yarraville
- Expertise
- Maintenance, Operations
- Job level(s)
- Management
- Work type(s)
- Permanent
- More details (document)
- Business unit
- Sugar Australia