Fonterra's strength is in the collective
We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Our rich history is built on farming families working together to share the natural goodness of our dairy with the world.
Collaboration, innovation, and passion was the cornerstone of our creation and something we continue to value today through our commitment to care for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk. Our milk creates goodness through nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients that are loved here in New Zealand and around the world.
About the opportunity Our Kapuni site specialises in manufacturing high grade lactose, used for pharmaceutical (tablet, powders, vaccines, liquids) and nutritional (infant formula) purposes. Kapuni products supply pharmaceutical and infant formula demand around the globe.
As part of the maintenance team based in Kapuni, your role will help identify and provide a breadth of knowledge across a range of projects and operational areas for improvement to optimise plant reliability. You will champion our asset management plans, assist with failure analysis including facilitation, asset related problem solving and management of corrective actions to ensure deliverables are met. Key here is to optimise maintenance operational costs and increase production plant availability.
You will utilise your programme management expertise to support both the engineering team and plant leadership to deliver on major and minor shuts with a balanced focus on Safety, Quality, Sustainability, Capability and Cost.
About you With a qualification or relevant training in mechanical engineering, maintenance, and project roles, you'll have a strong drive for continuous improvement and have the ability to provide mechanical knowledge in applying reliability engineering principles and implementing processes in a manufacturing environment. You will have an understanding of Safety, Sustainability and defect Elimination.
This is a varied role that will see you liaise across a range of stakeholders and team members, so you'll need to have great communication and people skills, along with the ability to influence and manage relationships at all levels. Your passion for problem solving and planning, coupled with your ability to build key relationships across cross functional teams will see you succeed in this pivotal role.
Additional skills you will bring to this role: Demonstrable Mechanical Engineering skills, along with the relevant Tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience.
Previous experience in project engineering, shutdown or maintenance management would be advantageous.
Previous experience with design work and documentation.
Excellent communication, and organisational skills, with flexibility around changing maintenance requirements and advanced problem-solving skills.
Ability to assist with our asset lifecycle management from developing maintenance plans to capital planning.
Ability to implement continuous improvement initiatives.
Strong interpersonal and team engagement skills.
Excellent planning and prioritization skills.
Strong Problem-solving skills (RCA, FMEA).
This is a great opportunity to join a high performing site with a close-knit team!
Our Story Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit gives us all a common strength and purpose. Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people who are at the heart of what we do, we want our farmers, employees, customers and communities to thrive. Kaitiakitanga, ensures we take care of the land. We are committed to farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.
Whakaohooho constantly inspires ourselves and each other with great career development opportunities and benefits. We enable flexibility and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.
Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best.
Apply Now! Applications for this role close Tuesday, 12 November 2024.
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