Automation Manager- North Island

4 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Fonterra Full time

**General Information**:

- Date Published- 07-Aug-2023- Advertising Ends- 24-Aug-2023- Country- New Zealand- Location- Auckland, Hamilton & North Waikato- Role Type- Engineering- Work Type- Permanent- ID#- 5752**Position Description**:

- Bring your automation leadership capability to our high performing team.
- Work with a variety of stakeholders across the business.
- Great role offering plenty of career development opportunities.

**Our Co-operative**

**Te Mātāpuna toa takitini**
Fonterra’s strength is in the collective
We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Our rich history is built on farming families working together to share the natural goodness of our dairy with the world.
Collaboration, innovation, and passion was the cornerstone of our creation and something we continue to value today through our commitment to care for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk. Our milk creates goodness through nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients that are loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

**About the opportunity**

We are looking for an Automation Manager (known internally as Control Systems Manager) for the North Island region and Specialty Products, where you will provide leadership to ensure our manufacturing operations’ automation technologies and control systems run reliably for safe processing of milk day-to-day and meet future business requirements.

Reporting to the GM Automation & Operational Technology (AOT), you will be part of the AOT leadership team setting the direction and roadmap for Fonterra’s manufacturing automation, OT data and control systems capabilities. You will lead a high performing team of Regional Control Systems Managers (4 direct reports in total) and work towards achieving continuous improvement of control systems and automation technologies.

In this highly innovative role, your key role accountabilities include:

- Develop and maintain strong artnerships with relevant stakeholders and vendors including NZM North Island and Specialty Regional GMs, Site Operations Managers, and others.
- Provide a pro-active and forward-thinking approach focused on driving improvements and change whilst developing and enabling all levels of staff to actively engage.
- Implement improvement opportunities to drive efficiencies in control systems team activities and workload.
- Provide guidance for management of risk identification and mitigation strategies for all control systems.

Ideally you will be based in Waikato and be willing to travel across the North Island to our manufacturing sites to engage and build relationship with our key stakeholders.

With a focus on automation and continuous improvement of our manufacturing sites, this is a unique opportunity to develop not only our experience, but the way our environment is shaped for the future and truly make a difference

**About you**

As a self-motivated and passionate leader with strong engineering and manufacturing expertise, you will hit the ground running. With a curious mindset and passion for continuous improvement, you will introduce new ideas to continually improve Fonterra’s control systems and automation processes.

We want to hear from you if you have:

- Strong leadership skills with experience leading, motivating and inspiring others
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and develop collaborative relationships.
- Understanding of networks, control systems architecture including PLCs, HMI’s, MES/MOM and cybersecurity
- A degree in Business, Engineering or other relevant field.

This role offers great exposure and variety, plus you will be joining a high-performance and highly engaged team. Are you ready to make a positive impact?

**Our Story**

Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit gives us all a common strength and purpose. Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people who are at the heart of what we do, we want our farmers, employees, customers and communities to thrive. Kaitiakitanga, ensures we take care of the land. We are committed to farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.

Whakaohooho constantly inspires ourselves and each other with great career development opportunities and benefits. We enable flexibility and balance to suit everyone’s lifestyles and choices.

Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best.

Sound good to you? Come join our whānau. You, me, Us Together Tᾱtou tᾱtou.


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