Job Description
Join a highly successful and profitable division of a leading Australian manufacturing group, operating across a national network of 10+sites.
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The business is performing strongly and has recently appointed a new COO who is driving a clear focus on operational excellence, capability and continuous improvement. As part of this next phase, a newly created National Reliability Manager position has been established to bring greater consistency, visibility and strategic direction to reliability across the network.
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With sites ranging from highly automated operations through to more manually intensive environments, this is a genuinely varied national portfolio with significant opportunity to improve reliability practices and create greater synergies across the network.
Company n
Join a highly successful and profitable division of a leading Australian manufacturing group, operating across a national network of 10+sites.
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The business is performing strongly and has recently appointed a new COO who is driving a clear focus on operational excellence, capability and continuous improvement. As part of this next phase, a newly created National Reliability Manager position has been established to bring greater consistency, visibility and strategic direction to reliability across the network.
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With sites ranging from highly automated operations through to more manually intensive environments, this is a genuinely wide-ranging national portfolio with significant opportunity to improve reliability practices and create greater synergies across the network.
The Role n
Reporting to the COO,



you'll work with Site and Maintenance Leaders to assess capability, identify gaps and establish a consistent national reliability strategy.
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Your initial focus will be on asset registers, critical spares, asset criticality and maintenance visibility, before progressing the network towards a more proactive, preventative and data‐led reliability model.
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Key responsibilities will include:
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Develop and implement a national reliability strategy across 10+sites.
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Assess current asset, maintenance and reliability maturity across the network and establish clear improvement priorities.
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Develop consistent asset registers, asset criticality frameworks and critical spare parts strategies.
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Identify opportunities to standardise processes, equipment knowledge and reliability practices across sites.
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Build greater focus on preventative and predictive maintenance, moving the network away from reactive maintenance.
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Partner with Site and Maintenance Leaders to develop practical reliability improvement plans and drive accountability for delivery.
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Establish appropriate reliability KPIs, reporting and governance to improve visibility of asset performance.
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Build capability within site-based maintenance teams and embed a stronger reliability mindset across the business.
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Your Background n
You'll be a proven reliability leader with multi‐site or large‐scale manufacturing experience, ideally within food, FMCG, dairy or another asset intensive environment.
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Importantly, you'll have experience building or maturing reliability strategies, moving businesses from reactive maintenance towards more structured, preventative and data‐led approaches.
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You will bring:
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Demonstrated multi‐site or large‐scale reliability leadership experience.
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Experience developing reliability strategies, frameworks or improvement programs.
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Strong understanding of asset management, criticality, preventative maintenance and reliability engineering.
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Experience establishing asset registers, spare parts strategies and maintenance standards.
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A practical understanding of RCA, FMEA, CMMS and maintenance data.
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Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to influence site‐based teams without relying solely on direct authority.
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Commercial awareness and the ability to connect reliability improvements to cost, productivity, safety and operational performance.
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A pragmatic, hands‐on approach - someone who can establish the strategy while remaining close enough to the sites to make it work.
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What's On Offer n
This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of a newly created national reliability function and influence how reliability operates across a successful and profitable business.
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