Plant Engineer

4 days ago

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Tegel Foods Ltd Full time NZ$70,000 - NZ$100,000 per year

Our Story

Tegel Foods Ltd is an iconic New Zealand brand with a long history of producing a wide variety of high-quality products delivered throughout New Zealand. We are proud to be helping families eat well very day.

We are looking for an experienced Plant Engineer to join our company and add to our established and high performing Christchurch Engineering team.

A day in the life of Plant Engineer

  • You will be responsible for managing the maintenance provision to maximise plant uptime to specified standards, through effective breakdown support and preventative maintenance
  • Manage a team of 18 to meet targets efficiently, while developing the team to ensure sufficient cover in all required skill sets
  • Active downtime management
  • Lead maintenance team to ensure plant is maintained to agreed standards and that planned maintenance is carried
  • Manage working relations with key contracting services to ensure full provision of service, and effective use of resources
  • Control costs, materials spending and inventory management to budgetary limits

What will you bring:

  • Ability to lead, direct and motivate a team
  • At least 5 years' experience working in this role or similar
  • A relevant Trade Qualification / Registration / Trade Certificate in a Mechanical Engineering field to a minimum of Level 4
  • Sound knowledge of EHS, Food Safety, Quality required
  • Experience in computerised maintenance management systems
  • Maintenance reliability and asset care skills with failure analysis knowledge
  • Electrical knowledge
  • Good communication and inter-personal skills
  • Time management

Our recruitment process includes a pre-employment medical and drug screening.

Don't wait any longer as we'll close the applications as soon as we find the right fit

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