Senior Multi-Site Reliability Leader

Open Country Dairy Ltd; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Open Country Dairy Ltd. in New Zealand seeks a Head of Reliability Engineering to lead enterprise-wide reliability strategy across manufacturing sites, focusing on reducing downtime, extending asset life and improving plant performance.

You will quantify the commercial impact of reliability initiatives and ensure improvements translate into measurable operational value while guiding site-based maintenance and automation teams to lift reliability standards and predictive maintenance maturity.

Qualifications

• Significant reliability/maintenance leadership experience in capital-intensive manufacturing.
• Strong technical depth in RCM, FMEA, and condition monitoring.
• Ability to lead through influence across multi-site environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise reliability strategy across manufacturing sites.
• Drive downtime reduction and asset lifecycle value.
• Set reliability standards and governance for maintenance and automation teams.
• Lead root-cause analysis and failure-elimination initiatives.
• Support capital planning, renewal projects, and predictive maintenance.

Skills

RCM

FMEA

Criticality analysis

Condition monitoring

Root-cause analysis

Influence across sites

Education

Tertiary qualification in Mechanical or Reliability Engineering

Job description

Open Country Dairy Ltd. in New Zealand seeks a Head of Reliability Engineering to lead enterprise-wide reliability strategy across manufacturing sites, focusing on reducing downtime, extending asset life and improving plant performance.

You will quantify the commercial impact of reliability initiatives and ensure improvements translate into measurable operational value while guiding site-based maintenance and automation teams to lift reliability standards and predictive maintenance maturity.