Maintenance Fitter – Darnum, Victoria, Australia

•                  Working environment that prioritises safety

•                  Permanent Full Time Position

•                  Rotating Morning and Afternoon shift Roster

About Lactalis-Mainland Dairy

Mainland Dairy, the business formerly known as Fonterra’s global Consumer and associated businesses, is now part of the Lactalis Group and known as Lactalis-Mainland Dairy.

Lactalis is a French family-owned business founded in Laval in 1933. Today, it is the world’s leading dairy group, present in 50 countries employing around 85,500 people. It is home to some of the world’s best known global and international dairy brands, including Président, Galbani and Parmalat, and local brands including Pauls, OAK, and Cracker Barrel in Australia.

Lactalis-Mainland Dairy is a team of more than 4,300 employees, operating 16 manufacturing sites across Oceania, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.

Our passionate and talented team is committed to nurturing the future, unlocking new opportunities, and fostering innovation in nutrition and food.

About the opportunity

As a maintenance fitter, you will be responsible for ensuring the mechanical upkeep of our production lines. Your role will involve conducting preventative maintenance, diagnosing faults, and performing corrective actions to minimise downtime and support continuous production.

Note that this position operates on a 12-hour rotating shift schedule.

Based at our Darnum site in the heart of Victoria’s dairy country, West Gippsland, you’ll be joining one of Australia’s largest and most advanced dairy manufacturing facilities. Our Darnum site produces world-class nutritional, skim, and whole milk powders for global markets. With recent upgrades in technology, safety, and production capacity, it’s an exciting time to become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and career development.

Key Responsibilities

• Preventative maintenance: Performing scheduled inspections, servicing and planned maintenance tasks to prevent breakdowns and ensure machinery operates efficiently and safely.
• Breakdown response: Responding quickly to equipment failure and operational issues to minimise production downtime.
• Quality and safety: adhering to stringent food safety, hygiene and health and safety policies and procedures to ensure product quality and a safe working environment.
• Collaboration working closely with production operators and other team members to address mechanical and maintenance needs share knowledge and problem solve.
• Record keeping accurately recording all maintenance activities and update system to maintain equipment history and facilitate reporting including shift handover.
• Food safety Focus: Applying hygienic engineering principles GMP and ensuring all maintenance interventions align with food safety standards.
• Troubleshooting and Repair: Diagnosing and repairing mechanical faults, replacing components, fabricating parts as needed.

To Be considered for this position, you will have

• Maintenance Trade Qualification and a Certificate III in Engineering
• Experience in industrial or manufacturing environments, with food or beverage industry experience is highly regarded.
• Experience with Mex systems is a bonus.
• Ability to identify mechanical issues and work to proactively resolve
• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with multi-disciplinary departments
• Pneumatic systems knowledge
• Sound verbal and written communication skills
• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritise
• Strong ability to work in a team environment

The benefits of life at Lactalis

Working at Lactalis offers the opportunity to be part of a globally recognised dairy leader while contributing to a business that values people, development, and continuous improvement. As part of the world’s largest dairy company, employees benefit from exposure to international best practices and a strong sense of purpose centred around producing quality, nutritious products.

One of the key advantages of working at Lactalis is its strong focus on career growth and development. The business promotes internal progression and provides access to ongoing training and global development programs, supporting employees to build their skills and advance within the organisation.

Sound good to you? Come and join us, and let's solve for better, together. You, me, us together.

Are you excited about this opportunity but may only meet some requirements?

That's not a problem. We are committed to growing our internal talent and building a diverse workplace; therefore, we are open to looking at applicants with excellent transferable skills. If that's you, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or one of our other opportunities.

Sound good to you? We like to see as many jobs as possible filled by our talented existing team, so if you are interested, please apply now so we can continue to solve for better, together.

*** Please note: To be considered for this position you must already have the legal right to live and work in Australia ***