The Company

This FMCG manufacturing business has built a strong national presence through a continued focus on operational excellence, asset reliability, and continuous improvement across multiple workshops. Due to ongoing growth and investment, they are now recruiting for a Regional Maintenance Manager to oversee maintenance operations across 10+ sites nationally.

The Role

Reporting into the Head of Maintenance Operations and forming part of the leadership team, your responsibilities will include;

• Develop and implement the regional maintenance strategy across 10+ workshops.
• Drive a proactive reliability and preventative maintenance culture across all operations, ensuring KPI’s around OEE, uptime, downtime, asset reliability, and safety are achieved.
• Lead, mentor and develop site maintenance leaders and technical teams to improve capability and standardise best practice across the network.
• Partner closely with maintenance & operations leaders to improve performance, reduce maintenance spend, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee lifecycle management of plant assets including capital upgrades, obsolescence planning, and long-term maintenance planning.
• Implement reliability centred maintenance practices including RCA, Fishbone Analysis, PM optimisation and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Drive standardisation of maintenance systems, processes and reporting across the multi-site operation.
• Support capital projects, site expansions, and equipment upgrades across the manufacturing network.

Your Background

In order to be successful in this role, you will be;

• Degree or trade qualified within an engineering discipline, including mechanical, electrical, mechatronics or similar – Required.
• Proven experience leading maintenance and reliability functions within a fast-paced FMCG or manufacturing environment.
• Strong leadership experience, ideally across multiple teams & locations.
• Extensive experience developing and implementing preventative and reliability-centred maintenance strategies.
• Strong understanding of continuous improvement methodologies including Lean, 5S, Six Sigma and Root Cause Analysis techniques.
• A strong people leader with the ability to influence stakeholders across operations, engineering, and executive leadership teams.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving and strategic planning capabilities.

What’s on Offer?

In return, you will be given the opportunity to join a leading FMCG manufacturing business in a strategically important leadership role with influence across a large and complex operation. You will also be joining a business with strong long-term growth plans, ongoing investment, and a genuine focus on leadership development and continuous improvement.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, you can contact Maurice Tranchina at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7413.