Maintenance Engineer Leading Hand

3 days ago


Hokitika, New Zealand Silver Fern Farms Full time

Our Hokitika site is Silver Fern Farms only processing facility in the West Coast of the South Island, employing just over 120 people at the peak of the season.

We are looking for a motivated and skilled Maintenance Engineer to join our engineering team as a **Leading Hand,** responsible for the hands-on day to day leadership within our small but strong mechanical engineering team. Someone who is maybe looking to take their first step down the leadership path, leading by example all the way and encouraging a collaborative and cohesive team from the front.

**The successful applicant will possess the following skills and attributes**:

- Relevant Trades Qualification (Level 4 Mechanical Diagnostics | Fitter/Turner | Fitter/Welder and L4 Automotive Engineer | Time spent LV/ HD Mechanic)
- Good knowledge of sound engineering principals and repairs and maintenance procedures on a large industrial processing site - or a passion to learn in this environment.
- Ability to analyse problems and implement effective solutions in a timely manner and communicate this with those around you.
- Be self-motivated and capable of working both independently and within a tight knit team of engineering support
- Organised, with the ability to plan and prioritise workload in a challenging engineering environment and lead by example from the front.
- Desire to keep learning and upskill - be this in a leadership scope or dual trading in to electrical - refrigeration or even project design.

Our site operates both day and evening shifts. Our team of Maintenance teams are required to work to a roster covering production hours which run between 0430 and 1600 Monday to Friday most of the season and a late shift about 12 weeks a year that would be an afternoon shift. Due to us working around production, this can occasionally include overtime during the day on Saturdays/ Sundays during projects and shutdown so flexibility to business needs - or understanding of this is important - but in return we will provide you with good $, OT after 45 hours every week, some great training /development and a stellar team of work mates and senior leaders in the business, who not only want to see you succeed - but will support you along the way.



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