Maintenance and Reliability Lead
Visa sponsorship
Engineering · Perth, WA, Australia · Full-Time · Discussed at interview · Visa: Employer sponsored
Build a more structured maintenance approach at a growing Perth manufacturing site. The lead combines practical fault-finding with maintenance planning, asset records and contractor coordination. Working with production, equipment manufacturers and specialists, you will develop systems that improve availability and address recurring failures.
An English CV should show your technical trade qualification and the plant systems you have maintained. prepare a maintenance and reliability leadership CV with examples of planned work, root-cause analysis and CMMS use. Explain how you create practical schedules and records, manage specialist support and remain within your authorised scope while improving safety and equipment performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Own site maintenance direction, plant availability, reliability and maintenance performance.
- Design and implement preventative and predictive programmes around production needs and equipment criticality.
- Diagnose instrumentation, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical and mechanical faults and perform mechanical and electrical work only within qualification and authorisation.
- Troubleshoot motors, sensors, instrumentation, VSDs, HMIs, PLCs and automated controls and investigate recurring failures to apply lasting corrections.
- Maintain accurate asset records, orders and equipment histories and improve CMMS use including MEX and other systems.
- Establish inspections, service intervals, standards, practical procedures, checklists and records and improve critical spares identification, holdings and control.
- Coordinate suppliers, contractors, manufacturers and specialists and support installation, commissioning, modifications and upgrades to handover.
- Help operators care for equipment and identify early faults and improve safety, response, uptime and efficiency.
- Ensure isolation, lockout/tagout, permit-to-work and safety compliance and that licensed and specialist tasks go to appropriately qualified people.
Requirements & Eligibility
- Recognised trade qualification in mechatronics, electromechanical engineering, fitting and turning, mechanical fitting, industrial electrical or related technical discipline.
- Solid industrial manufacturing, processing or production maintenance and practical industrial diagnosis and repair with strong mechanical maintenance and fault-finding.
- Working industrial control and automation knowledge including motors, sensors, instrumentation, VSDs, HMIs and PLCs.
- Familiarity with corrective, predictive and preventative maintenance and a record improving reliability and reducing downtime.
- CMMS or computerised maintenance management system experience; MEX or comparable systems will be highly regarded.
- Able to develop systems, processes and records from the beginning, with sharp analysis, troubleshooting and root-cause problem-solving.
- Able to manage suppliers, contractors, manufacturers and competing priorities, with good communication and organisation.
- Food, FMCG, pet food, animal feed, grain, milling or similar manufacturing experience would be advantageous.
- Extrusion, conveying, batching, drying, cooling, mixing, coating or automated packing experience would be advantageous; commissioning, upgrades, condition monitoring or reliability engineering will be highly regarded.
- GMP, HACCP or controlled manufacturing understanding would be advantageous.
- Able to work safely within qualifications, licences and authorised scope, with Australian work rights or employer-sponsored employment eligibility and ability to meet visa, qualification recognition, licensing and skills-assessment requirements.
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