Engineering Manager

Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy and beverage producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

As an innovative leader in packaging, we were the first in our region to offer the dairy industry 100% recycled PET bottles. For our Dairy and Beverage customers, we supply PET, rPET, HDPE and rHDPE bottles, closures, and crates for everything from fresh milk and drinking yoghurts to juice, water, and alcohol, in a range that includes the lightest weight milk bottle in the region. Pact's purpose built Greystanes site manufactures for the Dairy and Beverage market.

About this opportunity

As Engineering Manager at our new Greystanes site, you will provide leadership for the operation and maintenance of all industrial plant and equipment, installation, automation design and upgrade changes.

The key focus of the role is to support Safety, Quality, Production and continuous Improvement through condition and functions that underpin improvement, inclusive of contractor management. With your expertise and leadership, you will participate in and lead projects including future ready capital initiatives.

Your key responsibilities:

• Safety leadership of team and crews with regular participation in hazard ID’s, Safety Behavioural Observations (Audits), risk assessments and WHSE campaigns that actively drive a culture of behavioural safety
• Scheduling, supervising and progressing the condition and PM maintenance practices and schedules to efficiently support the production line equipment and supporting services of the manufacturing process to minimise production downtime
•  Promoting improvements to safety systems in use on all equipment and production lines
• Continue development of reporting and carryout regular Toolbox Talk meetings on Safety and Quality
• Managing maintenance records to demonstrate adherence to standards and allow for analysis and improvement of maintenance spend.
• Coordinating the requirements for new equipment designs, surveys and maintenance schedules to applicable Australian Standards
• Co-ordinating all contractor support, services, and maintenance activity inclusive of cost and quote establishment, induction completion, JSEA completion and other risk assessments
• Leading discussion and implementation on engineering design upgrade improvements
• Assisting with long term capital planning and implementing capital projects.
• Playing an active part in highlighting areas for reducing production costs such as waste, setup time etc.
• Managing the forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast (three or more months)
• Implement supply chain improvement initiatives, ensuring the improvement of forecast accuracy and inventory levels
• Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Minimum Five (5) years’ experience in a Maintenance Engineering team leadership role within a 24/5 manufacturing environment.
• Injection Moulding experience highly regarded
• Understanding of OEE, Root Cause Analysis and TPM operations
• Demonstrated track record of continuous improvement of processes
• Sound understanding of manufacturing financial/cost control
• Familiarity with SAP system
• Results orientation
• Experience managing large capital projects

• Degree in Mechanical or Electrical engineering
• Minimum Trades and Tertiary Qualifications in Mechanical engineering and/or Mechatronics
• Electrical qualifications well regarded

About us

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan. 

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.