Regional Engineering Manager - Lower North Island We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world. As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk. When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions. We are embracing a new vision and strategic direction with a centralised engineering, capital & technical group for COO. Global Engineering & Technical represents a transformative step in our journey towards engineering excellence and strategic innovation to deliver our long term asset strategy within COO. It will drive positive change by enhancing strategic delivery, efficiency, and agility, streamline risk management, standardise operations, simplify processes, improve communication and enhance career pathways for engineers within a recognised centre of excellence, ensuring a sustainable future. About the opportunity | Te whai waahi As Regional Engineering Manager you will lead our regionally-based engineering team, acting as a key partner for operational teams (NZM & NZDC) to ensure strategic alignment of engineering activities & improvements. Bridging the gap between centralised Engineering leadership and operational teams by building capability and integration within Fonterra systems, processes, and regulatory requirements across all of COO Operations. Key accountabilities include: Oversee and collaborate with operational teams to enable effective delivery of local improvement plans while ensuring strategic and process alignment to engineering. Including monitoring the effectiveness and tracking key performance measures related to asset management standards and systems. Provide leadership to operational asset owners by offering strategic, engineering, risk and technical advice on maintenance, asset management, capital planning, risk management and compliance. Act as a key liaison between global engineering, capital and external experts. Ensure effective deployment of the asset category plans to enable differentiated decision making. Responding to operational engineering needs of regional team in the first instance (triage), and drawing in necessarily additional support where required. Ensure alignment with the asset footprint and regional integrated business plans. Drive and contribute to community of practice and networks. Develop and enhance the capabilities of regional and site engineering teams. Translates and deploys key engineering standards and frameworks into the Operations environments across COO, ensuring the required capability to lead the change in the operational teams. About you | Moe koe To be successful in this role, here are some of the critical skills and experience you will ideally bring: Engineering Degree or extensive operational maintenance/asset management experience. Several years of experience in a large Engineering role with demonstrable experience in leadership of operational engineering / maintenance teams. Strong people leadership experience. Demonstrable influencing ability and customer focus. Strong business insight and commercial acumen. Our story | To Tatou Korero Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together. Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose. Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do. Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations. Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, 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, and are empowered to create goodness for generations. #J-18808-Ljbffr