Maintenance Manager

|Food & Dairy - Management|Christchurch
  • Large scale food production facility
  • Management of maintenance and project work
  • Opportunity to support and mentor your team
  • Sunny Hawkes Bay location

The Company
Our client is a well-known quality food processor and exporter based in Hastings.  With their modern facility processing locally grown food product and supplying to New Zealand and international markets, this business is a well renowned and stable employer in the region with strong financial backing.
 
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Plant Manager, this is position oversees all site maintenance, manages asset reliability, and contributes to capital projects on site.  With maintenance and electrical team of around 15 on site, this role will manage planned and breakdown maintenance but key to your success in the position is the style in which you manage, mentor and support your team.  This role will not suit an office-based manager.  Instead, you’ll be a ‘visible’ team contributor, able to lead from the front but empower your team to make their own considered decisions, providing an open forum for discussions around continuous improvement and plant reliability. Please note, this role is based in Hastings. 
 
Requirements
As a suitable candidate, you will have an appropriate trade or engineering degree qualification, with a solid background in hands-on plant and services maintenance, preferably within the food, dairy or similar manufacturing environment. From there you will have led/mentored teams, been involved in evolving plant reliability, and had input into capital project work (ideally managing these).  But just as critical will be your input into developing your team and maintaining a positive work culture – this means leading from the front and being ‘present’ and visible for your team while allowing them to enable their own confidence to grow too.
 
Ideally our clients are looking for someone with:

  • Trade OR tertiary engineering qualification
  • Significant hands-on plant engineering experience preferably within the food industry
  • Developed maintenance management skills including planning and reliability improvement
  • Proven leadership/mentoring experience
  • Capital projects experience
  • High-level computer skills
  • Developed communication skills, someone who can communicate with team members and external stakeholders alike


On Offer
In return, our client offers a supportive environment, competitive remuneration, 10% bonus, and, as part of the site management group, the opportunity to be involved with strategic development of the site. This is your opportunity to join a highly regarded and hugely successful company, and move to the idyllic Hawkes Bay, in time to enjoy the summer weather.
 
Apply 
To apply for this position please click on the relevant APPLY button. For a confidential enquiry, contact Olivia Lawrence on 04 916 0536 or email olivia@trs.co.nz
Note: If this vacancy is not exactly what you are seeking, then please contact me in confidence to discuss your individual requirements.