Vittoria Food and Beverage – Silverwater NSW

We are a privately owned, family business competing against some of the biggest multinationals in the world. We are Australia’s No. 1 Pure Coffee Company*. Since 1947, we’ve been building brands into internationally recognised household names like Vittoria Coffee, Jarlsberg Cheese and Santa Vittoria mineral water. We are a fast-moving, innovative, market-leading business with a strong entrepreneurial culture. We only look at our competitors to ensure we can act differently.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Head of Engineering to lead our engineering and maintenance team at our Silverwater manufacturing operations. This is a senior, hands-on role for an engineering leader who knows how to drive reliability, improve plant performance and deliver projects in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Reporting to the Head of Production, you will take ownership of the engineering and maintenance function, with responsibility for ensuring our production equipment, facilities and infrastructure operate safely, reliably and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the engineering and maintenance function across our manufacturing operations.
- Drive preventative and predictive maintenance programs to improve plant availability and reduce unplanned downtime.
- Take a hands-on approach to engineering, working alongside the team to troubleshoot breakdowns, diagnose equipment issues and support practical repairs and solutions on the production floor.
- Develop and manage engineering and maintenance budgets and capital expenditure plans.
- Improve plant performance, throughput, efficiency and overall equipment effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities to improve automation, controls, utilities and production infrastructure.




- Partner with Production and Operations to resolve bottlenecks and improve manufacturing capability.
- Manage external engineers, contractors, equipment suppliers and technical partners.
- Ensure engineering activities meet WHS, food safety, quality and regulatory requirements.
- Develop engineering capability through strong leadership, coaching, accountability and succession planning.

About You

You are an experienced engineering leader who combines strong technical capability with commercial thinking and practical leadership. You will ideally bring:

- Significant engineering leadership experience within FMCG, food and beverage, manufacturing or a comparable high-volume production environment.
- Proven experience leading engineering or maintenance teams.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing equipment, preventative maintenance and reliability.
- Demonstrated experience delivering significant capital projects from concept through to commissioning.
- Strong understanding of automation, controls, utilities and production infrastructure.
- Experience driving continuous improvement, equipment reliability and downtime reduction.
- Sound knowledge of WHS, engineering compliance and contractor management.

Why Join Vittoria?

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a critical function within an established Australian family-owned business and have a direct impact on the future capability of our manufacturing operations.

You will have the opportunity to:

- Generous staff discounts on products
- Work with iconic Australian brands in a fast-paced FMCG environment.

Vittoria Food & Beverage is committed to developing and retaining highly talented people. If you are a self-driven, enthusiastic individual.and relish the prospect of working in a fast moving entrepreneurial business with a unique culture built upon strong values, innovative marketing with a strong results orientationthen we look forward to hearing from you

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📌 Head of Engineering (New South Wales)
🏢 Vittoria Food & Beverage
📍 New South Wales