Engineering Manager

About the Company
As one of New Zealand’s leading heavy industry manufacturing groups they operate across multiple sites throughout New Zealand, supplying packaging solutions to businesses across the North Island.
The site operation is a fast-paced, high-volume manufacturing environment with approximately 130 people on site. The business is committed to operational excellence, safety leadership, and investing in the capability of its people and plant.
  
About the Role
This is a leadership role with full scope and accountability. Reporting to the Facility Manager Northern, you will lead a mixed team of 12 mechanical, electrical, and automation engineers and planners. With full responsibility for site maintenance, reliability, and capital engineering.
Your focus is across developing preventative maintenance, extending equipment life, building a maintenance function/programme that supports a high-performance manufacturing site. You will own the inventory spares and maintenance budget, lead capital planning, and drive the site’s automation capability forward. Leading the implementation of a maintenance and reliability strategy across the facility.
You’ll be managing and developing the team of engineers and planning function. Overseeing site services, ensuring compliance with all legislative requirements. Completing Capex applications and coordinating capital projects from planning through to delivery. Whilst all the time maintaining a safety-first culture through visible leadership and ongoing compliance.
  
About You
You are an experienced engineering leader from a high-speed or continuous flow manufacturing environment. You combine technical depth with the leadership presence to build high-performing teams and the commercial acumen to manage budgets and drive results.
You can demonstrate a proven record of improving machinery reliability and resolving complex engineering problems and a working familiarity with Lean Six Sigma tools.
Your leadership style will be engaging, collaborative whilst not afraid to make decisions. You’ll embrace the development of the team and look to take people on the journey of improvement.
  
What’s on Offer
You will hold a senior leadership role with accountability across engineering, reliability, and capital. With a mandate to improve and modernise the maintenance function. In a collaborative, high-performance site culture with scope to make your mark, whilst working with other engineering leaders across the group. For more information or to register your interest, contact John Boyle on 021 73 75 76 or johnb@huntercampbell.co.nz for a confidential discussion.