Mechanical Engineer, Maintenance – FMCG

Mechanical Engineer, Maintenance – FMCG (The position has been filled)

• Career Progression Opportunity With a Company Operating Across Many Growth Markets
• Leadership Role with High Profile Manufacturing Business in Regional Victoria
• Professional, Friendly and Supportive Work Environment

 

CLIENT

Our client is a well-known and highly respected Food Manufacturer. They are part of a global, diversified international group employing over 100,000 employees worldwide. With clarity on future direction and clearly defined values, our client is one of Australia’s and New Zealand’s largest food manufacturers.

 

ROLE

Based in regional Victoria, this role reports to the Reliability Manager. The site’s reliability team is responsible for ensuring that the site maintenance and reliability program is implemented timely and effectively for all site assets.

The Reliability Engineer is required to play a key role in implementing the program.

Some of the responsibilities associated with this role include:

• Ensuring safety rules and procedures are followed and carried out
• Completing actions from the sites reliability asset improvement list
• Reviewing repeat failures by conducting RCA and FMEA
• Conducting PM studies on new and old equipment as required and implement PMs into CMMS
• Analyse asset and line performance and write performance reports as required
• Work closely with production and maintenance planners to ensure improvement work is well communicated with both departments and work is effectively scheduled
• Train and develop Maintenance and Production teams as required on any new equipment installs, line improvements or any new asset care programs that need to be implemented
• Work closely with capital team to ensure any new projects have a PM program developed and a critical spare parts list developed prior to hand over to production
• Demonstrate strong Project Engineering skills that display the ability to develop Process Specification, Tender preparation and evaluation, Equipment Testing and Commissioning
• Maintains the site maintenance and reliability manual
• Add any new maintenance and reliability process flow descriptions and mapping to ensure site manual remains live and current
• Work closely and collaboratively with maintenance trades and maintenance managers, project engineers and site planners in order to achieve sustainable reliability improvements
• Ensure any improvement projects have the justification to provide a net benefit to the business
• Continually exhibit a Maintenance Excellence attitude

 

SELECTION CRITERIA

To be successful in your application you will need to meet the following criteria:

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Post Graduate or Masters qualifications will be highly regarded
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Mechanical Engineering preferably in the Plant Reliability space
• Excellent understanding of preventative maintenance concepts and techniques
• Ability to manage implementation of improvement projects
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts RCA, FMEA, MTBF and implementation for performance and cost improvements
• Software skills: CMMS, Excel and Database packages
• Excellent analytical skills
• High level communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

 

APPLICATIONS

To have a confidential discussion about this role, please call our team on 03 9516 0100 during office hours, or after hours Peter on 0413 602 758; Helen on 0438 620 434. To apply, please click the “Apply Now” button below and send your resume with a covering letter addressing the above criteria to CS Executive Group.

 

THANK YOU

We would like to thank you for taking the time to apply for this role. Unfortunately, due to the large volume of applications we receive daily, we cannot contact all candidates. Please note, if you are not contacted within three weeks, you are not successful on this occasion.