Maintenance and Reliability Lead
Visa sponsorship
Engineering · Perth, WA, Australia · Full-Time · Discussed at interview · Visa: Employer sponsored
Building the maintenance system is part of the job at this expanding Perth, WA manufacturing operation. The Maintenance and Reliability Lead will establish structured planning and asset records while taking hands-on responsibility for diagnosing faults and improving equipment performance.
This is a broad technical leadership position, covering automation, reliability investigations, contractor coordination and production support. You will develop preventative and predictive maintenance around equipment criticality, then use recurring failures and operating experience to improve the approach. Mechanical and electrical work must remain within your qualifications and authorised scope, with specialist tasks assigned to appropriately qualified people.
For your English CV, connect the plant systems you have maintained with examples of maintenance planning, CMMS development and reduced downtime. Document your reliability work through Build AI CV.
Key Responsibilities
- Set the site's maintenance and reliability strategy and take ownership of plant availability and maintenance performance.
- Develop preventative and predictive maintenance programmes and schedules aligned with production needs and equipment criticality.
- Diagnose breakdowns across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic and instrumentation systems, completing hands-on work within your qualifications and authorisation.
- Troubleshoot automated controls, motors, sensors, instrumentation, variable-speed drives, HMIs and PLCs.
- Investigate repeat failures, establish root causes and implement lasting corrective measures.
- Maintain asset registers, work orders, service records and equipment histories; develop CMMS processes, including MEX and other maintenance systems.
- Create inspection routines, service intervals, maintenance standards, procedures, checklists and technical records.
- Improve the identification, availability and inventory management of critical spare parts.
- Coordinate contractors, suppliers, manufacturers and specialist services, supporting installation, commissioning, upgrades, modifications and handover.
- Help production operators care for equipment and detect faults early, improving plant safety, response times, uptime and efficiency.
- Enforce isolation, lockout/tagout, permit-to-work and safety procedures, ensuring licensed or specialist tasks are completed by appropriately qualified personnel.
Requirements & Eligibility
- Hold a recognised trade qualification in mechatronics, electromechanical engineering, fitting and turning, mechanical fitting, industrial electrical or a related technical discipline.
- Bring strong industrial maintenance experience from manufacturing, processing or production, including hands-on diagnosis and repair of industrial equipment and strong mechanical fault-finding capability.
- Understand industrial automation and control systems through practical experience with motors, sensors, instrumentation, VSDs, HMIs and PLCs.
- Know preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance practices and demonstrate improvements to plant reliability and equipment downtime.
- Have experience using a CMMS or computerised maintenance management system; experience with MEX, Buhler or comparable maintenance systems will be highly regarded.
- Be able to establish maintenance systems, processes and documentation from the ground up, supported by strong analytical, troubleshooting and root-cause problem-solving skills.
- Manage contractors, suppliers, manufacturers and competing maintenance priorities, with good communication and organisational skills.
- Experience in food, FMCG, pet food, animal feed, grain, milling or similar manufacturing industries would be advantageous.
- Experience with extrusion, conveying, batching, drying, cooling, mixing, coating or automated packing equipment would be advantageous.
- Experience with commissioning, equipment upgrades, condition monitoring or reliability engineering will be highly regarded.
- An understanding of GMP, HACCP or controlled manufacturing environments would be advantageous.
- Work safely within the limits of your qualifications, licences and authorised scope, and be willing to move to Western Australia.
- Have Australian work rights or eligibility for employer-sponsored employment and be eligible to meet Australian visa, qualification recognition, licensing and skills-assessment requirements; employer sponsorship is available for an exceptional overseas candidate, and overseas applicants with strong industrial maintenance backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
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