Maintenance Manager
- Oversee all maintenance operations to ensure continuous and efficient production.
- Manage preventive maintenance programs and drive improvements in maintenance performance.
- Lead a large engineering and maintenance team while ensuring safety and quality standards are met.
We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years.
A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together.
Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.
Your opportunity to join our team:
As the Maintenance Manager at Inghams Further Processing Facility based at Thomastown. You will oversee all maintenance operations for this facility to ensure continuous, safe, and efficient production is met. This role involves managing preventive maintenance programs for all machinery, systems and facility infrastructure.
Your role is also to deliver improvements across maintenance performance and unplanned downtime whilst managing and implementing overall capital for the site.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the maintenance team to maximise site efficiency and performance.
- Embed safety and quality assurance in all repairs and maintenance, and close out corrective actions promptly.
- Drive Ingham’s asset management standards through robust maintenance practices.
- Manage planned and breakdown maintenance to reduce downtime, using maintenance plans, performance measures and continuous improvement.
- Develop and monitor annual and 5-year capital plans to replace end-of-life assets and improve reliability.
- Control expenditure within budget, forecast capital spend and cashflow, and seek approval for out-of-scope spend.
- Set and monitor safety standards, and lead corrective action in high-risk areas.
- Coach, delegate to and recognise the team.
- Own functional accountability and deliver results and standards.
- Ensure Inghams standards for animal welfare, WHS, quality and quarantine are communicated and met.
- Identify people issues, reduce turnover and keep the labour cost base productive and competitive.
- Design and establish animal welfare, food safety and quality procedures that meet Inghams minimum standards.
What you’ll bring:
- Experience leading a large engineering and maintenance team (within an FMCG or similar manufacturing environment would be advantageous) .
- Exposure to site services including ammonia refrigeration, compressed air, gas-fired boilers and water heaters, and advanced wastewater and trade waste treatment.
- Demonstrated implementation of TPM, Lean/Six Sigma or CMMS.
- Proven ability to develop and implement successful maintenance practices and performance.
- Experience driving cultural change through leadership, engagement and performance management.
- Working knowledge of best-practice maintenance management and systems.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence senior stakeholders, internal and external.
- Strong people leadership, adapting approach to achieve objectives.
- Ability to coach, develop, measure performance and give direct feedback.
- Capacity to challenge self and others while taking responsibility and accountability for decisions.
- Proven ability to develop and execute short- and long-term strategies while upholding high standards.
What we’ll offer you:
- On-the-job training and support to set you up for success
- Access to Fitness Passport that gives you affordable access to gyms, pools and fitness facilities nationwide
- Employee benefits including product discounts and travel discounts
- Genuine opportunities to develop your career, supported by our performance and succession programs.
- The health, safety, and wellbeing of our people is our highest priority
- ASX-listed company with operations across Australia and New Zealand
We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us. People who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering delicious food that’s… Always Good.
Inghams values diverse experiences. If your skills align with some but not all of the listed requirements, we encourage you to still apply and explore the opportunity to join our team.
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