- Somersby, NSW - Work Close to Home on the Central Coast

- Great work life balance

- Small but mighty team

Great processes make great products. Excellent people make great processes work.

At The Real Pet Food Company, we’re passionate about creating fresher, more nutritious food for pets. We’re also passionate about finding better ways to work, improving performance and challenging the status quo.

We’re looking for a hands‑on Process Engineer to join our Somersby manufacturing site and drive meaningful, sustainable improvements across our production operations.

This role is about much more than analysing data, identifying inefficiencies and recommending technical solutions. It’s about getting out on the factory floor, understanding how things really work, listening to the people who do the work every day and bringing them along on the improvement journey.

You might identify the perfect solution on paper, but if the people responsible for implementing it don’t understand it, support it or see the value in it, it won’t deliver the results we need. Your ability to influence, collaborate and bring people with you will be just as important as your technical capability.

If you’re a Process Engineer who combines strong continuous improvement expertise with exceptional stakeholder engagement and change management skills, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact.

What will you be doing?

Working across three production lines, including our Liver Room wet manufacturing operation, you’ll partner with Production, Maintenance, QA, Warehouse and Logistics, and site leadership to improve the way we manufacture our products.

Our site has a mix of modern automated equipment and manual processing,



supported by operators with varying levels of experience. Understanding these differences — and developing solutions that work for the people, equipment and processes involved — will be critical to your success.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Driving continuous improvement: Identify, develop and implement initiatives that improve productivity, efficiency, yield, quality, safety and cost performance. Apply Lean Manufacturing principles to reduce waste, eliminate variation and improve how work gets done.

- Getting onto the factory floor: Spend time alongside operators, team leaders and maintenance technicians to understand processes from end to end. Observe how work is performed, ask questions, listen to feedback and identify opportunities that may not be visible from behind a desk.

- Influencing and building buy‑in: Engage stakeholders at every level of the business, from production workers and maintenance teams through to site leadership. Build trust, explain the rationale for change and influence people to support and adopt new ways of working.

- Leading change management: Take ownership of the change process, from consultation and stakeholder engagement through to communication, implementation, training and follow‑up. Anticipate resistance, listen to concerns,



incorporate practical feedback and ensure changes are embedded and sustained.

- Understanding people and their pain points: Recognise that experienced operators and newer team members bring different levels of knowledge, confidence and experience. Adapt your approach, meet people where they are and develop solutions that make sense for the people who will use them.

- Mapping processes and identifying critical control points: Understand each stage of the production process and identify where performance, quality, safety or consistency can be compromised. This includes both technical and mechanical factors, as well as human behaviours, handovers, work instructions and process compliance.

- Solving problems at the source: Use structured root cause analysis techniques such as 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagrams and FMEA to understand why issues occur and implement practical, lasting solutions rather than temporary fixes.

- Using data to drive decisions: Analyse production data, identify trends and measure the impact of improvement initiatives. Translate findings into explicit recommendations that stakeholders understand and support.

- Partnering across functions: Work collaboratively with Production, Maintenance, QA, NPD and other stakeholders to ensure proposed improvements are technically sound, operationally practical and aligned with quality and food safety requirements.

- Standardising and sustaining improvements: Develop and maintain SOPs, process documentation and training materials, ensuring new ways of working are understood, adopted and consistently followed.

- Supporting equipment and process optimisation: Work with in

📌 Process Engineer (Gosford)
🏢 Real Pet Food
📍 Gosford