Process Engineer

Position Title: Process Engineer
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41169
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
As a Process Engineer, your expertise will drive the safe, reliable operation and maintenance of our processing facility. Working closely with the Maintenance Planner and Maintenance Supervisor, the role ensures all site services work, and statutory checks and processing repairs or refurbishment are completed to high standards and on schedule. The Process Engineer supports safe, reliable plant operation, contributes to seasonal repairs and off‑season refurbishment, and provides qualified shift coverage when required.
This position operates on a 4 days on / 4 days off rotating shift pattern, with 12-hour shifts from 06:00 to 18:00. From time to time, you will be expected to cover Maintenance Fitter shifts (06:00 to 18:00 and/or 18:00 to 06:00) at short notice, ensuring seamless plant operation during both production and off-season periods.
What you'll be doing.

• Overseeing and completing maintenance for site services and processing equipment.

• Conducting daily defect and out-of-spec inspections and completing weekly safety valve testing.

• Maintaining accurate, complete maintenance records and promptly reporting any gaps or incomplete work.

• Planning and supporting seasonal repairs, off-season refurbishments, and breakdown repairs to maintain production continuity.

• Planning and coordinating quarterly and annual shutdowns for boilers and refrigeration systems.

• Planning, ordering, and managing chemical supplies and monitoring water quality for essential plant systems, including boilers, refrigeration, trade waste, cooling towers, pumps, caustic, and sump systems.

• Ensuring sump pumps are routinely serviced and remain operational.

• Verifying contractor testing (fire pumps), completing BWOF checks, and ensuring plant room and ammonia system PPE is maintained.

• Ensuring all maintenance activities comply with ANZ standards, applicable regulations, and internal frameworks.

• Covering shifts as required, where appropriately qualified.

What you'll need to be successful.

• Minimum 3+ years' experience in a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) environment

• Apprentice-trained with a relevant trade qualification

• Boiler experience, including start-up and shut-down; valid ticket for unmanned systems

• Practical experience with ammonia refrigeration systems

• Strong computer literacy and data analysis skills

• Knowledge and experience of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement programs

• Ability to work independently or collaboratively, efficiently prioritising tasks

• SAP/CMMS skills

• Commitment to workplace health and safety

• Desirable: Experience with industrial services, Lean manufacturing (TPM, 6 Sigma), civil/building works exposure.

Benefits of the role.

• Opportunity to be part of a global iconic brand

• Strong focus on health and safety in the workplace

• Fully subsidised insurances including health, income protection, life, and critical illness cover

• Employee & Family Assistance Program, Education Assistance Programs

• Matched KiwiSaver contribution up to 4%

About McCain.
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Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Job Family: Engineering & Technical
Division: ANZ
Department: Hastings Maintenance Electrical
Location(s): NZ - New Zealand : Hawke's Bay : Hastings
Company: McCain Foods (NZ) Limited