Maintenance Manager

1 week ago

Canterbury, New Zealand George Weston Foods Full time

**About us**:
George Weston Foods (NZ) Limited “GWF” is a quality and customer focused FMCG company that makes some of Australasia’s favourite food. We are one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest food manufacturers employing around 6,500 people across 60 sites. GWF’s business units include: Tip Top, Don KRC, Mauri ANZ, Jasol and Yumi's. Our diverse product range includes leading brands of breads, baked goods, small goods, flour, milled products, and animal feed. GWF is a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods plc (ABF), one of the world leading food companies.

Our baking division is renowned in New Zealand for our iconic brands which include Tip Top Bread, Ploughmans, Burgen, Golden and Big Ben Pies - just to name a few. As a diverse business with a proud heritage, we offer a broad range of career opportunities, where we challenge and support our people to 'Be Yourself - at your best.' Creating Everyday Moments of Goodness is at the core of what we do, and we are proud to have recently been recognised as the Inclusive Workplace and Supreme Winners at the 2021 Diversity Awards.

At GWF our values include safe, collaboration, trust and courageous. As a diverse business with a proud heritage, we offer a broad range of career opportunities, where we challenge and support our people to ‘Be Yourself - at your best’.

**About the role**

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to join our Harewood Bakery in Christchurch. You will be responsible for leading the Harewood maintenance/engineering team (5 direct reports) to deliver world class maintenance and reliability that is underpinned by our value of SAFE (we create a safe place to work; we care about each other; safety has an equal voice; our food is safe)

Your key areas of responsibility will involve:

- Improving reliability and operational performance
- Driving efficiency improvements
- Facilitating maintenance planning processes
- Delivery of long-term initiatives (capital projects)
- Contractor management and permit to work compliance
- Building and maintaining a strong team environment with a high-performance culture

**What we offer**:

- Diverse and inclusive team environment
- Competitive salary and bonus
- Ongoing training and development
- Free on-site parking
- Free bread

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- a passion for safety and demonstrate daily a passion to reduce & eliminate Threat To Life Risks across our Harewood Bakery
- previous experience within an FMCG environment
- Mechanical qualifications including plc knowledge / programming
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience in leading, managing and developing high performing teams
- Enjoys working in collaboration to achieve common goals
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices
- Knowledge of HACCP policies and procedures
- Knowledge of continuous improvement principles
- Strong understanding of predictive and preventative maintenance systems
- Proven track record of developing and implementing processes to improve plant performance

Please note: Applicants for this position will be required to undertake pre-employment screening tests, including Drug & Alcohol testing.

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