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The Griffin’s Food Company

Wiri Maintenance Electrician - Night Shift

August 14, 2024

Published: 14/03/2024
Job Location: / New Zealand

We're on the hunt for an enthusiastic, skilled and qualified maintenance electrician to join our team. Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, this hands-on and fast-paced role is based at our manufacturing plant located in Wiri, Auckland.

Here at Griffin’s Snacks we produce many iconic and much-loved kiwi brands, including Griffin's, Eta, Nice and Natural and Huntley and Palmers, and this role plays a pivotal part in the smooth running of our manufacturing plant and supports our operations teams to produce our chips, bars and expanded snacks.

This hands-on role is responsible for supporting the Maintenance and wider operations teams to minimise plant downtime and optimise production efficiency through the prompt diagnosis, maintenance, and continuous improvement of electrical systems.

With safety and best practice methods of NZ standards always front of mind, we're looking for someone who enjoys using their initiative daily, who can maintain a high work rate while working independently. You’ll enjoy the satisfaction of being part of a tight-knit shift team and thinking out-of-the-box to find long term solutions to problems.

This role is a Night Shift position and would be working the following : Sunday night (Monday morning) 12.15am-8.15am, and Monday night to Thursday nights 9.45pm-6am - finishing Friday 6am

What you'll be responsible for:

Diagnostic and repair work to resolve breakdowns.
Identifying, planning, and implementing productivity initiatives and projects to effectively reduce downtime and
improve OE and plant optimisation (of electrical systems)
Ensuring planned electrical preventative maintenance and system checks are completed to schedule and in a timely
manner.
Providing PLC diagnostic and installation support, including ad-hoc programming as required
Ensuring that all electrical equipment and installations are safe and compliant to AS/NZ standards.
Updating all electrical/engineering and other site documentation required
Contributing to plant preparation for planned maintenance shutdown work and cleaning programmes
Ensuring all plant and site equipment is operational and ready for production start-up.

What you'll bring to the role?

A current NZ electrical license/registration (trade qualified)
2+ years minimum qualified experience within an industrial environment (food manufacturing/FMCG preferred)
Ideally, you’ll understand PLC based control systems and networking (Experience with Allen Bradley or Rockwell)
Excellent communication and relationship building skills – you are great at keeping everyone in the loop!
Accountability – you confidently make (and own!) your decisions.
Passion for developing others and sharing knowledge with wider team.
Positivity and a solutions-focused approach- nothing is ever a problem!
Initiative and ability to self-motivate.
Commitment to Health & Safety and ensuring that best practices are followed in the workplace.
Eagerness to grow your career with us – you are keen to learn and open to new ideas

What now? If you have the experience we are looking for and you wish to join a company where you can have pride and passion in what you do, please select APPLY NOW and submit your CV and application form below! Following you filling in the application, we'll send you back an email via our Chilli Factor system with questions to collect all the info we need to consider your application. Please note that this email may get caught in your Junk/Spam Inbox so please check there!

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