Work Close to Home - Stable and Growing FMCG
Hands-on Role working with a terrific Leadership Team
Real Pet Food Company (RPF) is passionate about feeding our pets the real food they deserve – filled with nutrients, free from harmful substances and full of flavour. At RPF we believe in staying real and doing the right thing by our pets, our fellow pet parents, and our planet. We strive to lead the industry through thoughtful innovation with real and recognisable ingredients, ethical and sustainable sourcing, and limiting processed food our pets consume. We want pets to live their best lives – helping them to grow up strong, healthy, and happy.We are a fast-growing, innovative FMCG Manufacturer with strong ethics and a love for keeping it real. Our success comes from having a great team of people behind some pet favourite brands such as Ivory Coat, Farmers Market, Nature's Gift, Trilogy & Fussy Cat!
This Is Where You Come In
We are looking for an experienced, disciplined and innovative Electrical Engineer who is looking to join a rapidly growing Company. The focus of this business-critical role is to ensure the reliability of the plant to meet the required KPI's in a safe and cost-effective manner. This role will also establish and drive maintenance practices in accordance with the corporate procedures to ensure standardisation of site maintenance and reporting. Ensuring compliance with processes and procedures to identify business improvements and RCA practices to eliminate repeated issues is a major focus.
Responsibilities
* Ensure plant and equipment breakdowns are dealt with in a prompt, safe and efficient manner
* Assist in establishing and maintaining an optimum level of spares
* Maximise line efficiencies through the establishment of an effective planned maintenance program
* Monitor equipment failure rate, analyse data, and drive root cause analysis & initiatives to continuously improve performance
* Reduce the total number of quarantine investigations through machinery faults
* Reduce rework generation through machinery faults
* Lead cross functional problem solving & root cause analysis to improve equipment efficiency
* Establish enhanced collaborative working culture across all shifts
* Assist in providing coaching to direct electrical team to ensure they are developing and have clear growth pathways for their career development
Ideal Candidate
* MUST HAVE Experience within the FMCG industry
* MUST HAVE RCA Experience - 5 Whys/Fishbone
* Excellent communication skills, high level interpersonal skills and sound judgement
* Ability to deal with multiple stakeholders and handle competing priorities
* Excellent organisation and time management skills
* Able to influence, manage and challenge ideas and existing business processes
* Experience in implementing systems and process changes
* Experience in managing projects
* Sound knowledge across the Microsoft office suite
* Experience in managing maintenance operations utilising computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS)
* Comprehensive understanding of maintenance planning, including budget control
* Electrical trade or engineering qualifications or equivalent professional experience in the field of engineering is essential
What We're About
Welcome to RPF, where we believe in keeping it Real. Since 1994, we have been Australia and New Zealand's pioneers in fresher dog and cat nutrition, committed to delivering better nutrition to pet parents worldwide. We are dedicated to fostering authentic partnerships, encouraging real ambition, and providing real career opportunities for our employees to make a difference.
Why Join Us?
Do work that matters – we're pioneering a new area of pet food, always striving for fresher. Make an impact and change the game with full trust and autonomy to do your best work. Grow with a fast expanding global presence across APAC and Europe. Work with a pack of awesome, genuine people passionate about what they do. Grow your career through lifelong learning, internal mobility and leadership training. Bring your pet to the Crows Nest office and enjoy generous perks such as day off for your anniversary, product discounts, volunteering days, novated leases, a rewards program and parental leave.
Next Steps
* An initial telephone interview followed by up to 2 face to face interviews and site visit
* 2 work references
* A Pre-Employment Medical
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity's not a buzzword here, it's in our DNA. Diverse perspectives shape our culture and make our work better. If you need any reasonable adjustments, accessibility assistance or would like to note which pronouns you use at any stage of our hiring process, just contact us at accommodations: people&culture@realpetfoodco.com.au. We look forward to hearing from you. Please note: NO agencies will be considered during this process. We encourage you to refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles.
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