Maintenance Electrician
Timaru | www.trademe.co.nz |
Te Turanga /About the Role:**
Our Pareora site in Timaru is the second largest site in our Silver Fern Farms network, employing over 700 people in peak season. We are looking for a motivated, skilled Maintenance Electrician to join our engineering team. Responsible for the electrical servicing, planned and reactive maintenance and support in our fast paced food production facility.
Our Electrical team is required to work a rotating roster covering production hours Monday to Friday with regular, paid overtime on Saturdays. Flexibility to our seasonal business requirements is important to succeeding in this role. The roster schedule is four weeks on day shift and one week on night shift; shared evenly between the team.
**Te Mahi /Key Responsibilities:**
• Undertake electrical repairs and maintenance to plant equipment to minimise equipment failure.
• Ensure any breakdowns in equipment or process is back to full production capacity within the shortest time, whilst always ensuring yours and others health and safety.
• Encourage a health and safety focussed culture through personal participation in H&S initiatives.
• Food hygiene regulations are complied with when working in areas controlled by MPI regulations.
**Ou Pukenga /About You:**
Previous experience in FMCG or transferrable production engineering environments would be an advantage, but the key is the ability to work as part of a team, to identify faults and use analytical and problem-solving skills to provide top level service to the processing plant.
You will have good interpersonal skills and an attitude for getting stuck in to get the job done, as well as thinking outside of the box. We appreciate and encourage new ideas about opportunities to collaborate across our site to ensure we get to the root cause of issues and fix it right - first time.
You will have the opportunity to be involved in projects and installation of new site equipment as well as a wide range of electrical applications across the site.
• Relevant Trades Qualification and Full NZ EWRB Electrical registration.
• Good knowledge of sound electrical principals and repairs and maintenance procedures on a large industrial processing site.
• Exposure to PLC and VSDs, instrumentation and control systems.
• Ability to analyse problems and implement effective solutions in a timely manner and communicate this with those around you.
• Be self-motivated and capable of working both independently and within a tight knit team of engineering support
• Organised, with the ability to plan and prioritise workload in a challenging engineering environment and lead by example from the front.
• Desire to keep learning and upskill - be this in a leadership scope or dual trading into refrigeration or even project design.
**Te Ahurea /Why work at Silver Fern Farms?**
Silver Fern Farms are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means, how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill & expertise of our Farmers and our customers around the globe.
'Goodness' is also about being good to people and communities, animal welfare, and showing care and respect for the environment.
For you, we offer heavily discounted staff meat sales through our on site Butcher's Block, paid sick leave from the date of employment (no waiting for the 6 month anniversary required), BOOST employee retail discount scheme, subsidised health insurance, and confidential employee assistance with career planning, financial advice and counselling.
There's the added bonus of free on-site parking and a SFF uniform also.
**Tono Mai /To Apply:**
Click on 'Apply' below to submit your application. We assess applications as they are received so don't delay.
***Silver Fern Farms welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive environment and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all team members and applicants. Come and create goodness together with us.***
Our Pareora site in Timaru is the second largest site in our Silver Fern Farms network, employing over 700 people in peak season. We are looking for a motivated, skilled Maintenance Electrician to join our engineering team. Responsible for the electrical servicing, planned and reactive maintenance and support in our fast paced food production facility.
Our Electrical team is required to work a rotating roster covering production hours Monday to Friday with regular, paid overtime on Saturdays. Flexibility to our seasonal business requirements is important to succeeding in this role. The roster schedule is four weeks on day shift and one week on night shift; shared evenly between the team.
**Te Mahi /Key Responsibilities:**
• Undertake electrical repairs and maintenance to plant equipment to minimise equipment failure.
• Ensure any breakdowns in equipment or process is back to full production capacity within the shortest time, whilst always ensuring yours and others health and safety.
• Encourage a health and safety focussed culture through personal participation in H&S initiatives.
• Food hygiene regulations are complied with when working in areas controlled by MPI regulations.
**Ou Pukenga /About You:**
Previous experience in FMCG or transferrable production engineering environments would be an advantage, but the key is the ability to work as part of a team, to identify faults and use analytical and problem-solving skills to provide top level service to the processing plant.
You will have good interpersonal skills and an attitude for getting stuck in to get the job done, as well as thinking outside of the box. We appreciate and encourage new ideas about opportunities to collaborate across our site to ensure we get to the root cause of issues and fix it right - first time.
You will have the opportunity to be involved in projects and installation of new site equipment as well as a wide range of electrical applications across the site.
• Relevant Trades Qualification and Full NZ EWRB Electrical registration.
• Good knowledge of sound electrical principals and repairs and maintenance procedures on a large industrial processing site.
• Exposure to PLC and VSDs, instrumentation and control systems.
• Ability to analyse problems and implement effective solutions in a timely manner and communicate this with those around you.
• Be self-motivated and capable of working both independently and within a tight knit team of engineering support
• Organised, with the ability to plan and prioritise workload in a challenging engineering environment and lead by example from the front.
• Desire to keep learning and upskill - be this in a leadership scope or dual trading into refrigeration or even project design.
**Te Ahurea /Why work at Silver Fern Farms?**
Silver Fern Farms are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means, how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill & expertise of our Farmers and our customers around the globe.
'Goodness' is also about being good to people and communities, animal welfare, and showing care and respect for the environment.
For you, we offer heavily discounted staff meat sales through our on site Butcher's Block, paid sick leave from the date of employment (no waiting for the 6 month anniversary required), BOOST employee retail discount scheme, subsidised health insurance, and confidential employee assistance with career planning, financial advice and counselling.
There's the added bonus of free on-site parking and a SFF uniform also.
**Tono Mai /To Apply:**
Click on 'Apply' below to submit your application. We assess applications as they are received so don't delay.
***Silver Fern Farms welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive environment and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all team members and applicants. Come and create goodness together with us.***
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