Electrical Technician, Manufacturing | NSW - Other

Job Description

Goodman Fielder is a leading regional food company across Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific. We have a portfolio of iconic and trusted brands that Australians have grown up with and put in their supermarket trolleys every week, including Helga's, Wonder White, Praise, Cornwells, Holbrooks, White Wings, Meadow Lea, and many more.

Our aspiration is to be the leading integrated food business in the Region.  We are a team that believes that anything is possible.  A team that understands our business and focuses on the right things that make the biggest difference and one that considers our end to end value chain when making decisions to optimise our business.  We drive change as an opportunity for us to innovate and transform our business and to achieve beyond what we think is possible.

About the opportunity:

We are currently looking a Maintenance Electrician to join our Erskine Park site.  The Shift Maintenance Electrician will work closely with maintenance fitters and operators to ensure that reliability and safety issues are dealt with in an effective and timely manner enabling the achievement of Operational outcomes for the site. As a strong team player, the Maintenance Electrician will be willing and able to assist operationally, outside the areas of core responsibilities, and in doing so make a solid contribution to building a high-performingsite maintenance team culture.

The shift pattern available is:

Day Shift working Monday to Friday, 5:00am to 1:00pm

 Key Responsibilities Include:

• Carry out preventative maintenance to plant and equipment within the facility
• High level of technical and diagnostic skills including fault finding of electrical circuits and PLC programs
• Participate in the repairs and preventive maintenance of all site plant and equipment
• Demonstrate and promote safe work practices
• Assist with other duties to ensure the effective operation of the maintenance team
• Identifying and resolving equipment reliability and improvement opportunities
• Work closely with operations personnel to ensure that reliability and safety issues are dealt with in an effective and timely manner

The successful candidate will possess the following attributes:

• Electrical Trade Certificate/License (NSW)
• Previous experience in an industrial manufacturing environment, prefenreably in FMCG or the Food manufacturing industry
• SCADA and PLC Knowledge essential (Allan Bradley and Siemems desirable)
• Processed-based risk assessment skills
• Excellent communication skills – listening, verbal and written
• Demonstrate an understanding of safety, health and the environment
• Diagnostics and fault finding on PLC's, VSD's, HMI's, robotics, instruments and sensors
• Installation of electrcial power, control and automation systems

What can we offer you?

With sites spanning across the Australasian region, working as part of a highly driven team at Goodman Fielder, you can expect to work with leading technologies producing a variety of the most reputable brands in Australia.

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.