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. We make well-loved brands including Perfect Italiano, Mainland, and Western Star.

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

The Opportunity

As the Maintenance Lead, you will be responsible for coordinating and executing planned maintenance activities, managing break-in work, and ensuring maintenance resources are effectively allocated across the site. Working closely with the Maintenance Planner and Maintenance Supervisor, you will play a key role in supporting equipment reliability, operational performance, and the daily leadership of the Maintenance team.

Key responsibilities include:

- Coordinating daily maintenance activities by allocating work to fitters, electricians, and contractors, monitoring progress, and providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support.
- Planning and coordinating preventative maintenance and shutdown activities, ensuring work orders are appropriately scoped, required parts and tools are available, and maintenance activities are completed efficiently with minimal operational disruption.




- Promoting a safe and compliant work environment through active participation in health, safety, and environmental initiatives, communication of key safety learnings, and support for incident investigations and action management.
- Identifying opportunities to improve equipment reliability, maintenance effectiveness, and operational efficiency while contributing to cost optimisation initiatives.
- Acting as a key leader and owner of relevant Integrated Work Systems (IWS) processes and standards.
- Supporting team development by mentoring apprentices and team members, sharing technical knowledge, and following up on work quality to ensure maintenance standards are consistently achieved.
- Building effective relationships with production, engineering, and site stakeholders to support maintenance priorities and plant performance.

With a focus on leadership, reliability, and continuous improvement, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a high-performing manufacturing environment.

About you

You are an experienced maintenance professional who leads by example, fosters a positive safety culture, and delivers results through effective leadership, structured processes, and continuous improvement.

- Experience leading maintenance activities within a manufacturing environment, ideally in food, dairy, or other FMCG industries.
- Knowledge of continuous improvement principles and maintenance management systems,



with MEX experience considered advantageous.
- Demonstrated commitment to health, safety, quality, food safety, and environmental standards, with the ability to promote accountability across teams.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage, coach, and influence team members and stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to prioritise competing demands, manage change, and make informed decisions in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Experience developing team capability, encouraging ownership, and driving a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to build collaborative relationships across maintenance, production, and site leadership teams to achieve operational goals.
- Trade qualified in an electrical or mechanical discipline, with an engineering qualification viewed favourably.

What We Offer

- Competitive pay and benefits
- Career development and internal opportunities across a global business
- A team focused workplace in a fantastic culture where your work has real impact
- A robust commitment to quality, innovation and sustainability
- Flexible work arrangements where possible

We believe in you bringing your best and most authentic self to work and we want you to succeed in a way that allows you to win, in every aspect of your life. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, as well as individuals of diverse cultural and social backgrounds. Our team is dedicated to supporting your professional development and personal wellbeing.

We look forward to the possibility of you joining our inclusive team.

Please note that applicants must have full working rights for Australia to be considered.

We are politely declining recruitment agency support and approaches for this role.

📌 Maintenance Team Lead (Wynyard)
🏢 Lactalis - Mainland Dairy
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