Manufacturing - maintenance manager (kwinana beach)

Modern plant with plans for further automation – Fenner benefits include a group bonus, share options – Career progression opportunities and continuous development

Fenner Conveyors is the world's largest conveyor manufacturer, forming part of the Michelin Group. Working with high profile mining clients Fenner Conveyors is the only Australian company that provides complete lifecycle services in belt manufacturing, installation, engineering and diagnosis.

We are seeking a qualified and experienced manufacturing maintenance manager for our Kwinana manufacturing plant. This role will lead a tight knit team to deliver the capital expenditure projects maintain that maintain and improve our world class facilities.

Only Australian citizens, permanent residents, are eligible for this role.

What's in it for you?

• Grow with us, through opportunities for career development and progression
• Get 45% discount off Michelin and BF Goodrich tyres
• Access discounts offered by our partners Apple, Virgin, Ford and Quest
• Become a shareholder – prospect to participate in the Michelin Share Scheme
• Optimise your salary via our salary packaging options
• Access to a range of experts throughout the team via mentoring and coaching opportunities
• We also provide study leave, training, and individual career development opportunities

What you'll be doing

• Create, develop and lead a high-performance, people focused engineering & maintenance team keeping plant availability and reliability at industry leading levels
• Lead the maintenance team to maintain and improve plant reliability and to keep production running at optimum levels
• Work closely with the Operations Manager, Supervisors and operators to troubleshoot issues, work through plant breakdowns and review processes and procedures to identify root cause and implement continuous improvement activities
• Manage reliability and maintenance operating costs
• Responsible for employee and industrial relations relating to the maintenance function
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, automation and operational excellence
• Develop and drive the Preventative Maintenance program, and develop the programmes required to shift to a condition-based inspection & maintenance plant
• Identify future capital works projects and provide recommendations for actions relating to the projects. Manage capital works projects
• Provide engineering and technical support to maintenance and production personnel

About you

• Strong people and culture leader with excellent communication and team engagement skills
• Tertiary qualifications in an engineering discipline (Mechanical or electrical preferred)
• Experience in maintenance planning with the ability to work with and understand CMMS systems
• Experience and demonstrated ability to effectively lead, develop and manage a team
• Strong understanding of mechanical processes with experience in a plant engineering, plant maintenance or similar role
• A strong commitment to safety and quality
• IT systems and MS Office Suite competency
• Willingness to work outside of hours as required

Our recruitment process includes an interview; national police check and a pre-employment medical and drug and alcohol test