Maintenance Engineer

**About Us**

Synlait is a dynamic, purpose-led milk nutrition company that is Doing Milk Differently for a Healthier World We’re shifting perceptions and driving value through new thinking, and a new attitude. We combine expert farming with state-of-the-art processing to produce a range of nutritional milk products for our global customers.

**The Role**

We are seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join our team on a permanent full-time basis at our Dunsandel manufacturing site.

You will provide core mechanical maintenance services to our manufacturing site ensuring its reliability. The ultimate responsibility of this role is for the mechanical reliability of the sites processing equipment on a shift-by-shift basis. Other key responsibilities include writing procedures and monitoring key performance indicators of our highly automated processes such as plant reliability and maintenance spend.

We offer a competitive wage plus overtime, along with medical insurance, free transport from Rolleston, training for professional and personal development, and a wide range of career opportunities. This is a shift role that includes day and night shifts (12-hour shifts), the average hours of work will be 43.75 hours.

This is a chance to bring your Sidel experience and knowledge to a fast-paced environment and be part of creating a world class maintenance culture, where we are looking for people with great attitudes, that are team focused.

**Qualifications**
- An Electrical, Instrumentation or Mechanical Trade qualification is essential.
- A qualification in Project Management, Dairy Degree/Diploma would be a distinct advantage

**Skills & Experience**
- Installation and maintenance of industrial equipment and components
- Experience in maintaining liquid milk filling equipment including UHT equipment, Sidel blow moulding and aseptic filling equipment and packing machines.
- Experience in Sidel
- Experience in root cause analysis programmes
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance tools, systems and processes

Come and join our fast paced, energetic organisation. We are breaking new ground as a leader in the dairy industry, and therefore seek to attract people who will thrive in such an environment. If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you.