Founded by the late Robert (Bob) Oatley AO BEM in 2006, A. G. Oatley Family Wines is a family-owned winery led by his eldest son Sandy Oatley.
Based in Mudgee, this amazing opportunity offers a great workplace where you can truly reach your careers goals and contribute to a highly respected iconic Australian Wine brand. This is a multi-faceted manufacturing site with a winery, vineyards, bottling hall, warehouse and cellar door.
We are looking for a motivated Maintenance Fitter Supervisor to join our existing maintenance team primarily within our winery and bottling facility.
The Maintenance Fitter Supervisor is responsible for eliminating maintenance and breakdown related losses. They will be responsible for building capability in production and maintenance teams to deliver overall results. The role will oversee the preventative, corrective, and continuous improvement aspects of maintenance support for the site, including supervising a small team. This is a hands-on position where you must be available and approachable whilst ensuring our staff are engaged.
The Role
• Own the preventative maintenance system including maintenance planning & scheduling.
• Focusing on defect handling and breakdown elimination through collaborative root cause investigation.
• Perform and manage planned and un-planned maintenance tasks.
• Carry out regular scheduled preventative maintenance and reactive servicing to all equipment and machinery across our winery and production lines.
• Complete checklists and maintain accurate records as part of our ongoing Quality Accreditation systems.
• Attend breakdowns, troubleshoot and locate sources of problems as a matter of urgency.
• Inspect, operate and test machinery and equipment to help diagnose malfunctions.
• Undertaking and assist with specific project work upon request.
• Coach, mentor, and develop team members.
• Work with team members in identifying root causes to malfunctions and implementing fixes.
• Carry out repairs to machinery and equipment with minimal downtime to production.
• Assist with maintenance of inventory of equipment, parts and supplies.
• Workshop housekeeping - maintaining and keeping workshop area clean and tidy, ensuring tools and equipment are in a clean state at the end of every shift.
• Generally constant work hours with some variation during vintage and as required for machinery restoration to operational status.
Skills and Experience
• Proven mechanical skills including metal fabrication machining, hydraulic and pneumatic maintenance and welding
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to troubleshoot, fault find and solve problems independently.
• Strong mechanical and/or electrical knowledge with respect to high-speed packaging equipment
• Packaging line control familiarity and programming skills desirable
• Computer skills (Microsoft suite, computerised maintenance management system)
• Approachable team player with the ability to foster open communication with staff and supervisors.
• Ability to stay calm and work well under pressure.
• Proven leadership and supervisory experience
• Experiencing driving continuous improvement
• Excellent communication skills
• Forklift licence desirable
In order to be successful, you will have:
• Ability to lead a small team and co-ordinate workflows
• Strong WH&S commitment
• Professional verbal and written communication.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Must be a team player and able to work unsupervised
• Proven mechanical/ electrical/ electronic breakdown and fault-finding skills
• Machinery modification and improvement experience from automated high-speed packaging equipment to food processing equipment desirable
Work Hours
• 38 hours per week, day shift, Monday - Friday (flexibility in start/finish times typically between 6:00am to 6:00pm)
• On-call roster during vintage (Jan – April). Also, during 12-hour production shifts – approx. one shift per month.
Benefits
• Competitive remuneration package
• $1,000 annual wine allowance
• Wellbeing Program
• Free onsite parking
• Training and development opportunities
If you believe you have what it takes to be successful in this role and have permanent working rights in Australia, then please apply now.