Reliability & Maintenance Lead – Food Manufacturing

Sonder Executive; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sonder Executive is a leading Australian food manufacturing business with a strong national footprint and a reputation for quality and innovation. Based at a facility in Sydney's south-west, the company seeks a hands-on maintenance leader to drive reliability and asset performance.

You will lead a four-person trades team and partner with Production and Engineering to implement robust maintenance practices and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance teams within manufacturing.
• Mechanical or electrical trade qualification or engineering degree.
• Strong troubleshooting across mechanical and electrical equipment.
• Experience with preventive maintenance programs and CMMS.
• Understanding of maintenance planning, inventory management and spare parts.
• Ability to identify root causes and implement reliability improvements.
• Stakeholder engagement across Production and Engineering.
• Hands-on leadership style with continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of four maintenance tradespeople.
• Improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime and drive OEE improvements.
• Strengthen preventative maintenance planning, scheduling and execution.
• Optimize MEX to improve maintenance visibility, work orders and reporting.
• Improve spare parts management and critical inventory control.
• Partner with Production to identify and resolve recurring equipment issues.
• Manage maintenance budgets, external contractors and site facilities.
• Support capital projects, equipment upgrades and asset replacement initiatives.
• Establish maintenance KPIs and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Troubleshooting

CMMS

Preventive maintenance

Inventory management

Stakeholder engagement

Root cause analysis

Education

Mechanical or electrical trade qualification

Engineering degree

Tools

CMMS software

Job description

Sonder Executive is a leading Australian food manufacturing business with a strong national footprint and a reputation for quality and innovation. Based at a facility in Sydney's south-west, the company seeks a hands-on maintenance leader to drive reliability and asset performance.

You will lead a four-person trades team and partner with Production and Engineering to implement robust maintenance practices and continuous improvement.