Maintenance Manager- Waitoa

Avature; Hamilton; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative co-operative seeks a Maintenance Manager to elevate their maintenance department at the Waitoa site. In this pivotal role, you will lead a skilled team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for optimizing maintenance strategies, managing budgets, and building strong partnerships with stakeholders. If you are a natural leader with a strategic mindset and a passion for engineering excellence, this opportunity offers the chance to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking environment committed to quality and safety.

Qualifications

• Natural people leader with strong coaching abilities.
• Proven understanding of maintenance management processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing maintenance team focused on continuous improvement.
• Optimize maintenance budget and develop long-term capital management plans.

Skills

People Leadership

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Maintenance Management

Continuous Improvement

Education

Trade Certificate in Engineering

Tertiary Degree in Engineering

Job description

We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

About the opportunity | Te whiwhinga mahi

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager at our Waitoa site where you will have the opportunity to take the department to the next level and continue the journey of maintenance improvements. As a key member of the leadership team, you’ll provide hands on leadership, mentoring and coaching to our highly skilled Maintenance Team to enable the achievement of our engineering strategy and world class standards in health and safety, food safety and quality, asset management and continuous improvement.

You’ll lead the Maintenance team’s strategic direction and delivery while having accountability for world class standards in our Fonterra strategy.

Core responsibilities include:

• Building a high performing team environment and fostering a culture of high engagement and collaboration with a continuous improvement mindset and focus.
• Building succession strategies throughout the maintenance team, through regular 1 on 1 meetings and personal development plans.
• Work along union delegates to support the team with union matters.
• Optimising site R&M strategy, and Integrated Work System (IWS) PM pillar leadership.
• Analysing and optimising maintenance budget and major service contracts.
• Developing site capital management performance driven by long term strategic business and capital plans based on asset condition and risk.
• Building long term partnerships that create value with our customers, suppliers and contractors.

About you | Ko wai koe

You will be a natural people leader with strong coaching abilities.

We want to hear from you if you have:

• A trade certificate or tertiary degree in Engineering - Mechanical, Electrical or other relevant field.
• People leadership experience of large teams with the ability to engage and motivate others.
• Proven understanding of maintenance management processes and an engineering project management background.
• A strategic mindset with effective communication and relationship management skills.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to implement and drive continuous improvement.

Are you excited about this opportunity but may only meet some requirements?

At Fonterra, we are committed to building a diverse workplace and, therefore, open to looking at applicants with excellent transferable skills. If that's you, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or one of our other opportunities.

Applications will close at midnight on 1 3 May 2025.