Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Description:

The Company

Our client is an industry leading organisation who have become an employer of choice through investing in developing and retaining the best people. With the constant need to strive for greatness, this business has a rich history and continues to grow and supply high quality products to their customers. They are now seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to join the business, based in their manufacturing facility on the Central Coast.
The role
Reporting into the Site Manager and sitting within the Site Leadership team, your responsibilities will include;

• Develop and implement the maintenance strategy across the site.
• Lead and develop the maintenance strategies and team within the plant, ensuring KPI’s around; OEE, machine reliability, uptime, stoppages and OH&S are adhered to.
• Developing the maintenance team in fault finding techniques, RCA, Fishbone Diagrams and other methodologies to facilitate a thorough and proactive maintenance culture.
• Life cycle management of site asset base, obsolescence and capital upgrades.
• Conducting in depth machine analysis to properly detect and predict machine issues before they arise.
• Providing proactive health and safety leadership in all aspects of asset management from design through to workplace safety documentation and management.

Your background

In order to be successful in this role, you will be:

• Degree qualified in an engineering discipline, being either mechanical, electrical, mechatronics or similar - Required. Can also look at trade qualified candidates with the right experience.
• Must have experience working within fast paced manufacturing sector, ideally within the FMCG or Packaging space.
• Extensive experience developing and implementing maintenance strategies to bring about a proactive and preventative maintenance culture.
• Formal qualifications/training in Root Cause Analysis techniques, as well as CI methodologies, including; 5S, Lean and/or Six Sigma.
• You will be a strong communicator, both verbal and written with excellent problem solving abilities.
• Strong ability to manage large teams of maintenance trades in a manufacturing environment.

What's on offer?

In return you will be given the opportunity to work in a leading business within the manufacturing sector. You will also be joining a business with a strong focus on training and career development.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity further you can contact Maurice Tranchina at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7413.