The Country Chef Bakery Co. is seeking a Continuous Improvement Engineer to join our team in our brand-new facility in Bells Creek on the Sunshine Coast.
Country Chef’s recipe for success has transformed us from a small family run start-up in the 1950’s, to one of Australia’s leading bakery businesses with partnerships that include Australia’s major retailers. As we move into a new and exciting stage in the Country Chef story there’s one ingredient, we cannot do without … our fantastic people!
About This Opportunity
The Continuous Improvement Engineer supports the overall operation of the business by ensuring optimal production processes through the collection, monitoring, and studying of business and production data.
Main responsibilities will be:
* Proven track record leading continuous improvement to reduce process losses, boost equipment reliability, and replicate successful solutions across production lines.
* Experience creating, maintaining and improving equipment and process standards in partnership with production and maintenance teams.
* Skilled at using production data and monitoring systems to track critical process measures, set target operating conditions, and drive reliability improvements.
* Practical experience reducing changeover downtime: setting targets, standardising steps, tracking actuals against targets, and running focused workshops to speed up changeovers.
* Strong change-management capability: keep procedures and control strategies current and communicate updates clearly across the plant.
* Experience planning and running regular equipment/process health checks, identifying gaps and leading actions to close them.
* Comfortable in daily production planning meetings and reporting key performance metrics (for example, Overall Equipment Effectiveness and average time between unplanned stops) and improvement outcomes.
* Analyse and report on production related usage, costing, labour variances, through puts, waste and track operation performance.
* Able to coach and mentor frontline leaders and equipment owners, lead structured problem solving and root-cause analysis, prioritise fixes from loss analyses, and ensure data used for decisions is accurate.
About you:
* Bachelors degree in Engineering, Business Administration or relevant – preferred
* Strong knowledge in lean six sigma.
* Experience in Continuous Improvement, deploying production systems, and in FMCG.
* Coaching & training capability, interpersonal skills, and structured problem-solving techniques.
* Collaborative approach where you are open minded, positive and inquisitive
* Adaptable and loves operating in a fast-paced working environment.
* Strong experience using Microsoft Excel and other analytical tools.
* Eligibility to work in Australia – with full working rights
Why Join Us
* Full time permanent position with an established national business on the beautiful Sunshine Coast.
* Take home free products and samples!
* Personal and professional growth and development.
* Free parking.
* Immediate start available.
* Salary structure to suit experience.
If this sounds like you – APPLY NOW!
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