Engineering Manager in Wahgunyah, Australia

Position Snapshot

Location: Wahgunyah, VIC (Northeast Victoria – close to regional hubs of Albury/Wodonga and Wangaratta)

Duration: Full time, permanent

8+ years’ experience relevant to this role

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Nestlé enjoys the reputation of the world’s largest FMCG, and a leader in nutrition, health and wellness.

An exciting opportunity currently exists for an Engineering Manager to lead the Engineering team in our Wahgunyah Factory, which is home to the Uncle Toby’s Brand. This role will provide engineering professional and technical leadership in the Factory, ensuring people health and safety, product safety and environment are never compromised, and that all engineering activities enhance business objectives, product quality and plant operation and performance.

A day in the life…

Reporting to the Factory Manager and leading the engineering team, key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Build Engineering Capability:

• Ensure alignment of the engineering resources with Factory strategy and objectives.

• Ensure that the needs of engineering and its functional competencies are identified, and that training meets these needs and cover any competency gaps.

• Develop and coach Engineering competences at the factory (including technical and management competencies, talent review, career and succession planning, etc.)

Excel in Industrialisation:

• Ensure investment strategy provides a framework (CIF) for the management of capital investment within the Factory.

• Support the EM Pillar, ensuring implementation of Project Foundations throughout the preparation and execution of all capital and industrialisation projects.

Planned Maintenance:

• Support and ensure implementation of Asset Maintenance and TPM-PM to deliver Asset Intensity to meet business requirements.

• Manage maintenance expense control by budgeting and routinely reviewing expenditure.

Industrial Services:

• Ensure that the utilities’ needs for Production are fulfilled, managed and optimised. That all utilities that come, or may come in contact, with product are treated according to defined food safety criteria.

MES – E&A:

• Ensures that the electrical services, degree of automation and MES at factory site level are in line with the Business requirements and standards.

What will make you successful

• Joining a collaborative team, you will be a strong leader with a history of delivering results in a high-pressure environment. You have the demonstrated ability to adapt to fast-paced changes.

• Degree/Diploma in an Engineering or Technical Bachelor discipline (Mechanical, E&A, Process, Industrial engineering, or similar).

• 8+ years’ experience in a technical field, preferably food manufacturing or consumer goods industry (as Project Engineer or Project Manager, Industrial Services, M&I or E&A/MES Engineer, or equivalent positions).

• Experience in leading Fixed Assets Maintenance, including maintenance budget preparation and control.

• Participation in the development of engineering projects >500kCHF.

• Participation in the start-up of technical equipment(s) and/or production line(s) (preferably including industrial services supply).

• Demonstrate Leadership in Continuous Excellence implementation and leading change in the factory environment.

• Experience in dealing with key stakeholders (Unions, local authorities, etc.)

• Self-management following defined KPIs / objectives, and proactively tracking them.

• Experience in Personnel Supervision of technical teams, contractors or other 3rd parties.

• Excellent communication skills and a proven capacity to influence and negotiate to drive high standards of performance and quality.

Applicants will be required to undergo pre-employment checks, including but not limited to health checks, prior to appointment to this role.

Applicants must have full Australian working rights

Benefits

You will have the chance to work with an outstanding and highly engaged team, build and grow your career with an inclusive, global FMCG leader.

In addition, we offer:

• Varied career experiences and personalised development support

• Diversity and Inclusion initiatives and program

• Discounted Nestlé products

• Competitive remuneration package

• Employee Assistance Program

Our Story

• Nestlé enjoys a reputation as one of the world’s largest FMCG companies and a leader in nutrition, health and wellness. Our inclusive and high-performance culture is a testament to the great training, development, rewards and recognition we extend to every member of our 5000-strong Oceania workforce.

• You can realise your full potential at Nestlé, working among the leading teams in nutrition, health and wellness. As part of a global network, you can use your skills to influence others and make a positive impact where you own a piece of the action.

• At Nestlé, you will work in a supportive environment where your ideas and points of view will be championed by a collaborative team. Together, we will drive the strength of our brands, the quality of our products, and the future of our business.

• At Nestlé, you can make a difference to millions of lives, every single day. As a large, global company that’s driven by purpose, you and your team can add your piece of legacy of creating a better, healthier future.

• In return you will have the chance to work with an outstanding team, and build and grow your career with an inclusive, global FMCG leader.

• Nestlé Oceania supports a culture of diversity and inclusion in all that we do. Take a look at Careers at Nestlé Australia jobsnear.net Nestlé Australia (nestle.com.au) to see some of the ways we live and practice this every day in our workplace.

• For more information please visit our website Nestlé Australia Home jobsnear.net Nestlé Australia (nestle.com.au) or Our LinkedIn page http://www.linkedin.com/company/nestle-s-a-

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