Deployment Lead, Base Automation – NZ-Wide Travel

Fonterra; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fair pay

Health programs

Professional development

Career growth support

Work-life balance options

Employee recognition

Community involvement support

Job summary

Fonterra is embarking on a multi-site Base Automation deployment program across New Zealand. We seek an experienced Deployment Lead to coordinate end-to-end automation initiatives, engaging site leaders, engineers, and vendors to drive successful outcomes.

You will plan, schedule, and execute complex deployments, balancing technical considerations with operations needs while enabling adoption and change across manufacturing sites. Travel across NZ is expected.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering large-scale projects or programmes in industrial or manufacturing environments.
• Strong stakeholder management with ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Base Automation deployment delivery at assigned sites.
• Develop and manage integrated deployment plans, budgets, risks and milestones.
• Coordinate technical, operational and people-change activities.
• Build readiness and adoption with site leadership and operations.
• Work with automation specialists, engineers, vendors and programme teams.
• Manage deployment issues while maintaining pace and quality.
• Support transition, go-live and sustainable outcomes at site level.
• Provide deployment reporting and visibility to stakeholders.
• Capture lessons learned to improve deployment approach.

Skills

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Automation knowledge

Operational technology

Change management

Manufacturing operations

Job description

Fonterra is embarking on a multi-site Base Automation deployment program across New Zealand. We seek an experienced Deployment Lead to coordinate end-to-end automation initiatives, engaging site leaders, engineers, and vendors to drive successful outcomes.

You will plan, schedule, and execute complex deployments, balancing technical considerations with operations needs while enabling adoption and change across manufacturing sites. Travel across NZ is expected.