Maintenance Fitter - Altona North, Australia - Circular Plastics Australia

Circular Plastics Australia

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Altona North, Australia

2 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Company Description

Circular Plastics Australia was formed by a unique industry partnership determined to provide more sustainable packaging solutions.

We have leveraged the unique skills and complementary expertise of each like minded joint venture partner to build scaled end-to-end solutions that will successfully accelerate a local circular economy.

Job Description:

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, the Fitter is a key member of the Site based team.

The Fitter will be a hands on operational role, with responsibility for partnering with the OEM equipment providers (Amut and Starlinger) on the installation and commissioning of this Greenfields site.

Post successful commissioning, this role has accountability for the ongoing performance and running of the equipment.

About this opportunity

The position will provide hands on support on all aspects of maintenance and upkeep of all manufacturing assets, the maintenance budget, managing contractors and helping execute strategies to enhance the performance of the maintenance function and related assets.

This position will drive the continuous improvement of all maintenance to support operational improvement goals.

You will build and maintain a collaborative relationship between maintenance and production, ensuring effective support to the Area Managers and their teams in executing safety, quality and operational improvements.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

Perform Root Cause Analysis on all critical failures of plant and ensure action items derived are implemented and sustained
Actively support the implementation of capital projects
Demonstrate genuine safetyfirst leadership, leading by example
Ensuring reliability and maintainability of all equipment is at or above target levels
Plan and manage all maintenance work effectively with production, ensuring mínimal disruption and downtime as possible
Conduct route cause analysis and investigations of safety incidents, environmental incidents, and breakdowns.
Periodically review all parts holdings on site to ensure they are up to date and stock records are accurate
Assess critical assets on an ongoing basis and implement defined actions to mitigate or minimise business risk
Planning and executing shutdowns

Your skills and experience

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

5-10 years in a similar position
Experience in Plastics manufacturing and/or recycling highly desirable
Prior experience in latest technology and automation within a manufacturing environment
Experience in installation and commissioning of similar sized projects
Superior communication skills. (from shop floor to leadership team)
Demonstrated ability in managing a preventative maintenance schedule
Proven ability to problem solve for emergency maintenance and repair

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