Senior Reliability Engineering Manager

Sharp & Carter; Parramatta; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp & Carter is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineering Manager to lead the maintenance and reliability function at a brand‑new, highly automated FMCG site in Western Sydney. You will drive a shift from reactive to planned maintenance, stabilise new assets, and manage legacy equipment while owning the maintenance budget and spares strategy.

You will lead 4 direct reports and a broader trades team, ensuring safety, environmental and food-safety compliance and driving CMMS governance and

Qualifications

• Full Australian work rights, based in Sydney for the role.
• 5+ years in a senior reliability maintenance leadership role.
• Experience with asset-intensive sites and a high level of automation.
• Open to industries with heavy asset bases (food, packaging, pharma, oil and gas, mining, etc.).
• Strong leadership, culture-building and change-management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the on-site maintenance and reliability function, with 4 direct reports and a wider trades team.
• Shift maintenance from reactive to planned/preventive work, improving PM and schedule compliance.
• Stabilise newer assets during commissioning while managing legacy equipment performance.
• Identify critical failure points and implement criticality analysis, spares and RCA.
• Own the maintenance budget, contractor spend and spares strategy.
• Drive statutory, safety, environmental and food-safety compliance across plant/utilities.
• Govern CMMS use, planning, scheduling and shutdown delivery.
• Develop leadership capability and accountability across the trades workforce.

Skills

Leadership

Reliability engineering

Maintenance planning

Budget management

Root cause analysis

Continuous improvement

Tools

CMMS

Job description

The Opportunity

A leading FMCG manufacturer is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineering Manager to lead the maintenance and reliability function at their food manufacturing site in Western Sydney.

The Business

The site is a brand-new, highly automated manufacturing operation with a significant amount of robotics and automation across its production lines. It is still ramping up its newer equipment to full capacity, while ageing legacy equipment brought it from other sites continue to run alongside it. The business is committed to lifting its operating standard across the board, and reliability sits at the centre of that ambition.

The Role

• Lead the maintenance and reliability function on site, including 4x direct reports and a wider team of trades under them.
• Shift maintenance from reactive to planned and preventative work, lifting PM and schedule compliance and reducing breakdowns and repeat failures.
• Stabilise newer assets still working through commissioning issues, while managing the performance of legacy equipment.
• Identify critical points of failure and build resilience through criticality analysis, critical spares and root cause analysis.
• Own the maintenance budget, contractor spend and spares strategy.
• Drive statutory, safety, environmental and food safety compliance across plant and utilities.
• Govern CMMS use, planning and scheduling and shutdown delivery.
• Build the capability, engagement and accountability of your leadership team and the wider trades workforce.

About You

• Full Australian work rights, you must be based in Sydney for this role.
• You are a senior maintenance and reliability leader with experence on a complex, asset-intensive site.
• Open to any industry with a heavy asset base (food, packaging, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, mining, industrial, building materials). Experience with a high level of automation will be highly regarded.
• You bring 5+ years in a senior reliability maintenance leadersihp role.
• Good energy and culture champion - ability to shape and form the culture of your direct reports and the other internal teams around you.
• You have operated within a continuous improvement framework previously.