Maintenance & Reliability Lead – Large-Scale Food Plant

Agri Talent Pty; Victoria; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Housing-search support

Discounted premium meat products

Novated vehicle lease

Job summary

Agri Talent is recruiting for a maintenance leader at a redeveloped, high-volume beef processing site in Victoria. Reporting to the Plant Manager and Group Asset Manager, you will drive maintenance, reliability, safety, and compliance while building people capability.

The role moves the site from reactive repairs to planned maintenance, establishes CMMS work-orders, asset history and preventative disciplines, and leads a multi-shift maintenance team with contractors.

Qualifications

• Trade or technical qualification with hands-on credibility.
• Experience in food/FMCG or high-volume production.
• Experience moving a team to planned maintenance.
• Experience with CMMS, work orders, asset data, scheduling, budgets, CAPEX, inventory, contractors.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule and prioritise maintenance around production windows, urgent repairs and preventative work to protect plant availability.
• Establish CMMS work-order, asset-history and preventative-maintenance disciplines as the site moves towards a group maintenance platform.
• Lead and develop the multi-shift maintenance team, including supervision, leading hands, trades, apprentices and contractors.
• Manage contractor performance, specialist service providers, parts inventory and spare-parts controls.
• Manage budget input, CAPEX documentation, utilities monitoring and monthly maintenance reporting.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

CMMS experience

Budgeting

Contractor management

Asset data management

Safety compliance

Education

Trade qualification (mechanical/electrical/ fitter) or related technical qualification

Tools

CMMS software

Job description

Agri Talent is recruiting for a maintenance leader at a redeveloped, high-volume beef processing site in Victoria. Reporting to the Plant Manager and Group Asset Manager, you will drive maintenance, reliability, safety, and compliance while building people capability.

The role moves the site from reactive repairs to planned maintenance, establishes CMMS work-orders, asset history and preventative disciplines, and leads a multi-shift maintenance team with contractors.