Maintenance Engineer / Fitter (Dunedin) | South Island - Other

Job Description

Goodman Fielder New Zealand is one of the largest branded food manufacturers and suppliers in New Zealand, serving customer needs with a portfolio of iconic, trusted food brands that New Zealanders have grown up with and enjoy every day. Our excellent portfolio of consumer brands includes Vogel's, Molenberg, Freya's, Meadow Fresh, Tararua, Puhoi Valley, Edmonds and Ernest Adams… just to name a few!

We are passionate about our iconic brands and products, and strive to be the best place to work in New Zealand. We are looking for talented and passionate individuals to join our business and be part of our success.

About the opportunity:
We are currently looking for a maintenance engineer responsible for safety, quality, reactive and preventative maintenance, efficiency, and cost-effective management of the Engineering function including plant, buildings, project management, new installations, contractor management and people.

Please note, this role is Wednesday to Saturday morning shifts. You will be expected to be on night call outs one week per month. 

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Support the execute actions plans and/or innovate to improve further
• Mitigate risk for our people, environment, and GF through the promotion of injury and incident prevention & management
• Mitigate quality risk for our consumers and brands through consistent delivery of quality standards
• Support and drive operational effectiveness including DDS, reviews, improvement projects, actions plan, CI, plant maintenance, inventory etc
• Improve the reliability of machinery
• Schedule and perform regular routine maintenance tasks
• Attend to unplanned maintenance tasks (Breakdowns)
• Perform general Engineering, repairs when required
• Develop and Implement plant improvements to all machinery ensuring compliance with QA, Food Safety and HSE requirements

About You

In order to be successful in this role, we are looking for an experienced maintenance engineer who has a background in both reactive and preventative industrial machinery maintenance.

Experience and qualifications we would like to see include:

• Trade certification with applicable trade and skilled in fitting, turning and machining
• Welding experience and reasonable knowledge in tig welding is beneficial
• An understanding of electrical engineering including PLC and SCADA root-cause analysis is beneficial
• Health, Safety and Environment knowledge, including machinery guarding
• A strong growth mindset with an eagerness to learn new skills
• Basic computer documentation skills in Word, Excel etc.

What can we offer you?
What can we offer you? 

With sites spanning across the Australasian region, working as part of a highly driven, commercially savvy team at Goodman Fielder, you can expect the opportunity to build your own home grown career across functions, locations and brands. 

In return for your passion and success, we will reward you with a competitive remuneration package and help you to achieve personal and professional growth and development. At Goodman Fielder, we aim to be a destination employer in the food industry where we don't just offer jobs - we offer long term careers. 

For more information about us or to learn about other roles available at Goodman Fielder, please visit our careers page and register your details so that we can notify you of jobs which interest you.