About the Role

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Asset Care Lead to join our team at Virginia. This role is all about improving equipment reliability, driving maintenance excellence, and partnering with operations to maximise plant performance. You'll play a critical role in planning and coordinating maintenance activities, maintaining asset data integrity within SAP, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, and helping ensure our manufacturing assets operate safely, efficiently, and reliably. What your days look like:

- Lead maintenance planning and scheduling activities to optimise equipment reliability and plant performance
- Manage and maintain maintenance schedules, work orders and asset data within SAP PM
- Partner with operations and maintenance teams to identify recurring equipment issues and implement sustainable solutions
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across maintenance systems, preventative maintenance programs and asset performance
- Monitor maintenance KPIs, analyse trends and support root cause investigations to reduce downtime
- Support major maintenance shutdowns, equipment upgrades and reliability improvement projects
- Champion safe work practices, GMP compliance and effective risk management across maintenance activities

The Ingredients for Success: Just like you can't make a Tim Tam without chocolate,



there are a few essential ingredients we need for this role;

- Trade qualification in Mechanical, Electrical or a related maintenance discipline
- Solid experience within a manufacturing, FMCG, food production or industrial environment
- Proven experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, asset care or reliability-focused roles
- Experience using SAP PM or a similar Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
- Solid understanding of preventative maintenance, work management processes and continuous improvement methodologies
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement sustainable improvements
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work collaboratively across maintenance and operations teams
- Well-developed computer skills, including Microsoft Excel and maintenance reporting systems

Why You'll Love It Here: You'll join a business with some of Australia's most loved brands, working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment where continuous improvement, reliability and teamwork are at the heart of everything we do. This is an opportunity to make a genuine impact on plant performance, help shape our asset care strategy, and work alongside experienced engineering, maintenance and operational leaders to deliver world-class manufacturing outcomes.

📌 Asset Care Lead (Virginia)
🏢 The Arnott's Group
📍 Virginia