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Ready to bring your best?\nHow you will make contributions that matter\nWe have an exciting opportunity for a Mechanical Leading Hand to join our Reliability team at Allansford.\nCombining hands-on maintenance with frontline leadership, you’ll coordinate the mechanical team, lead breakdown response and help drive safer, more reliable plant performance.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nProviding day-to-day leadership, direction and technical support to the mechanical maintenance team.\nCoordinating daily maintenance priorities, work allocation, breakdown response, call-outs and shutdown activities.\nTaking a hands-on role during equipment breakdowns, complex repairs and critical maintenance activities.\nCoaching and mentoring tradespeople through technical guidance, knowledge sharing and on-the-job development.\nDriving preventative and predictive maintenance improvements to reduce recurring failures, equipment risks and operational losses.\nMaintaining accurate records in SAP PM while ensuring work meets safety, food safety, quality, hygiene and GMP requirements.\nAbout you\nCertificate III or IV in Engineering - Mechanical Trade is essential.\nPrevious maintenance experience within manufacturing, food processing, dairy or a similar operational environment.\nPrevious leadership, work coordination or acting-supervisor experience will be highly regarded, but is not essential.\nStrong mechanical fault-finding, analytical thinking and practical problem-solving capability.\nThe ability to prioritise competing demands, coordinate work effectively and remain composed during breakdowns.\nA collaborative leadership style, with the ability to coach and develop tradespeople while working effectively across operational teams.\nIf you believe you can provide strong technical leadership and make a strong contribution to our Allansford Reliability Team, please click Apply to submit your application.\nApplications will be scheduled to close on October 28th. 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