RTT Process Projects Manager - Maungaturoto - Northland - 11888 - Fonterra

Job Name

RTT Process Projects Manager - Maungaturoto

General Information

Date Published

19-May-2025

Advertising Ends

02-Jun-2025

ID#

11888

Role Type

Manufacturing

Work Type

Fixed-Term Full-Time

Workplace Type

On-site

Country

New Zealand

Location

Northland

Position Description

Our Co-operative

Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini

We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.

When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.

About us | Whakapā mai

Established in 1902, Maungaturoto is one of our oldest sites. With three plants, the site processes around 247 million litres of milk a year and processes raw milk into a range of milk powders, whey powders and rennet casein.

About the opportunity | Te whai waahi

Run To Target (RTT) is a core COO strategy to deliver continuous performance improvement by enabling leadership, with frontline teams, to build a high-performance culture.

RTT is a line-focused approach to building the capability to rigorously maintain and execute standardised work processes to eliminate losses. It delivers one way of working that is practiced in over 500 sites worldwide, including Fonterra's global operations.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Asset Care Process Projects Manager, where you will be key in identifying and coordinating improvements across the plant process. You will be able to understand and manage conflicting objectives, align stakeholder needs, work with the wider team around scheduling plant processes and ensure the performance is up kept.

This is a key role in developing and deploying effective operational and asset strategy processes, becoming the champion, while offering insights and recommendations to financial performance, and being influential in building the engagement and performance of our team, making great things happen.

Reporting to the Line Lead, other key responsibilities include:

Various projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
Work with maintenance to drive improvement in SAP data, and asset strategy.
Supporting the generation and delivery of key velocity initiatives across the site.
Identify, prioritise and manage process improvement projects.
Supporting teams to deliver operational excellence.
Provision of coaching and mentoring.

This is a fixed term, secondment opportunity which is expected to end 31 January 2026.

About you | Moe koe

Whether you come from an engineering, maintenance or manufacturing background, the key to your success in this role will be your previous experience of plant and manufacturing processes combined with your mechanical aptitude and strong project management/scheduling skills.

Along with this you will be a strong communicator, a decision maker and be able to build effective relationships across the wider business as well as your ability to identify, provide solutions and bring people along on the journey to achieve great success.

A few other key attributes will include:

Tertiary qualification in Engineering or equivalent work experience.
Experience in Plant asset care &/ or dairy or manufacturing plant knowledge.
Strong ability to manage capital projects, from scope to delivery.
Experience in building capability across plant processes.
Business acumen with structured problem-solving and lateral thinking skills.

Our story | Ō mātou kōrero

Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together.

Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose.
Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do.
Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.
Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.

Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.

Sound good to you? Come join our whānau and let’s solve for better, together. You, me, us together. Tᾱtou tᾱtou.

Applications will close at midnight 02 June 2025

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