Maintenance Fitter

**Company Description**
Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole-of-product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.
**Job Description** About the Role**:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Day Shift Maintenance Fitter to join our VIP Steel Avondale branch, a multinational PACT Group PTY subsidiary.

You will work as part of the operational team with a key focus on providing maintenance support to enable effective running of all equipment.

You will ensure all processes and assets have the capability to meet our customers’ requirements in a manner that does not compromise quality or health and safety.

**Areas of Accountability**:

- Increase overall plant performance and asset reliability.
- Develop and implement continuous improvement projects.
- Health and Safety in accordance with PACT group policies.
- Ensure compliance of product quality with both internal / external standards and requirements
- Provide substitutive leadership and coverage for the Site Maintenance Engineer when necessary.
- Delivering outstanding customer service in a demanding business environment.
- Achieving high levels of equipment performance and reliability.
- Operating in a highly seasonal business and finding ways to maintain the equipment.
- Responding to breakdowns during afternoon shifts and weekends.
- Engaging an operations team with high levels of agency staff.
- Keeping up with technology.
- Upgrading machines and essential services for maximum reliability and efficiency while maintaining costs within budget.

**About You**:
To be successful in this role, you will need the following essential skills & experience:

- Prior experience in a maintenance / engineering role within FMCG and manufacturing environment.
- Trade Certificate Engineering.
- Fitter / Turner / Welder.
- Fault finding analysis.
- RCA
- Manufacturing / Production exposure.
- Trained Hydraulics
- PLC and electrical fault finding.
- Trained Pneumatics.
- Health, Safety, Quality focus
- Electrical Skills is advantageous.

**Additional Information**
This is a great opportunity to be a part of an earthy environment with a great multicultural team. It is a long-standing subsidiary of a large corporation that believes in its employees as it does in manufacturing.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

As part of our commitment to health and safety, the successful applicant will be required to pass a pre-employment medical and drug test.