Programme Director - Predictive Maintenance - Flexible Location - NZ - 11338 - Fonterra

Job Name

Programme Director - Predictive Maintenance

General Information

Date Published

20-Mar-2025

Advertising Ends

30-Mar-2025

Country

New Zealand

Location

Flexible Location - NZ

Role Type

Engineering

Work Type

Permanent

ID#

11338

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 | He kupu mō mātou

We are embracing a new vision and strategic direction with a centralised engineering, capital & technical group for COO. Global Engineering & Technical represents a transformative step in our journey towards engineering excellence and strategic innovation to deliver our long term asset strategy within COO. It will drive positive change by enhancing strategic delivery, efficiency, and agility, streamline risk management, standardise operations, simplify processes, improve communication and enhance career pathways for engineers within a recognised centre of excellence, ensuring a sustainable future.

About the opportunity | Mō tēnei tūranga

We are really excited to lead the adoption of transformation technology and industrial data software across our engineering operations, unlocking the future of maintenance by leveraging ai machine learning, advanced analytics and robotics.

Using technology alongside Reliability Centred Maintenance to enhance our decision-making process and extending lead times in maintenance planning, we will achieve unprecedented efficiency and scalability.

Join us on an exciting journey to transform the future of maintenance and be at the forefront of innovation.

As the Programme Director - Predictive Maintenance you will lead the development and implementation of advanced predictive maintenance strategies across the organisation's engineering operations which is crucial in enhancing operational reliability and efficiency through data-driven maintenance approaches.

You’ll spearhead transformational change across technical, organizational, capability and cultural aspects within maintenance and reliability, driving rapid and scalable improvements.

Key accountabilities include:

Developing a comprehensive predictive maintenance program, integrating cutting-edge analytics and machine learning technologies.
Leading an indirect team of engineers and data scientists to achieve program objectives, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making.
Ensuring the alignment of predictive maintenance practices with the COO's sustainability and efficiency targets. Collaborate with other industries and companies to learn from others experiences
Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of predictive maintenance into existing operations and parallel programs.

About you | Mōu

This is an extraordinary opportunity to be at the cutting edge of industrial technology in New Zealand, showcasing your expertise in reliability-centred maintenance and data analytics for predictive modelling. If you are bold and ambitious in driving transformation and aspire to shape the future of our Co-op in Engineering, we want to hear from you!

Critical skills and experience required:

Extensive experience in reliability and predictive maintenance functions within a large, complex engineering environment.
Proficiency in Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), data analytics and knowledge of machine learning techniques for predictive modeling.
Technological aptitude, especially across manufacturing equipment, FMEA principles and industrial or manufacturing processes
Strong leadership and project management skills
Highly collaboration skills and the ability to influence at all organisational levels.
Capable of strategic program integration and a demonstrated ability to manage and sustain complex change across multiple business functions
Degree Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field.

Our story | Ō mātou kōrero

Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit gives us all a common strength and purpose. Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people who are at the heart of what we do, we want our farmers, employees, customers and communities to thrive. Kaitiakitanga, ensures we take care of the land. We are committed to farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.

Whakaohooho constantly inspires ourselves and each other with great career development opportunities and benefits. We enable 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.

Sound good to you? Come join our whānau. You, me, Us Together Tᾱtou tᾱtou.

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