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Maintenance Supervisor
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About this Position
Join Henkel Adhesives and play a pivotal leadership role within the team. As our Maintenance Supervisor, you'll lead maintenance operations across our Kilsyth manufacturing site, ensuring our equipment remains safe, reliable and operating at peak performance. Reporting to the Engineering and Maintenance Manager, you'll supervise a small maintenance team and external contractors while driving preventative maintenance, continuous improvement and operational excellence.This hands-on leadership role is ideal for an experienced maintenance professional who enjoys solving technical challenges, developing people and improving equipment reliability. You'll work closely with production teams, manage contractors and maintenance activities, and play a key role in keeping our site running safely and efficiently.
What you´ll do
- Lead, coach and develop the maintenance team, fostering a strong safety culture and continuous improvement mindset.
- Employ Lean tools to identify and implement improvements to improve overall equipment performance, reliability, reduce running costs and improve overall operational efficiency.
- Support the development and execution of preventative and predictive maintenance strategies to maximise asset reliability, compliance and cost efficiency.
- Plan, schedule and oversee maintenance activities, ensuring work orders, inspections and service reports are completed accurately and on time.
- Manage maintenance resources, including equipment, spare parts and consumables, to support efficient day-to-day operations.
- Monitor maintenance performance and KPIs, identify risks and opportunities, and escalate issues where required.
- Coordinate equipment breakdown responses, lead fault finding and root cause analysis, and implement sustainable corrective actions.
- Manage contractor engagement and ensure all maintenance work is completed safely through effective permit-to-work processes and compliance with site procedures.
- Ensure all maintenance activities comply with Australian legislation, Henkel standards and site safety requirements, including the safe management of hazardous materials.
What makes you a good fit
- Minimum 5 years' hands-on engineering or maintenance experience within a manufacturing or process industry environment.
- Relevant qualifications in Engineering (Cert IV, Diploma or Degree) or significant experience as a senior tradesperson or maintenance supervisor.
- Previous experience leading and developing maintenance teams, with a strong commitment to safety, quality and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated experience with preventative maintenance, fault finding, root cause analysis, Lean maintenance practices (TPM, 5S, Gemba) and maintenance management systems (e.g. MEX).
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and operational teams and manage contractors effectively.
- Proficient in preparing engineering documentation, SOPs and risk assessments, with sound computer skills across Microsoft Office and engineering systems.
Some perks of joining Henkel
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Company Products Allocation
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.
JOB ID: 26098694
Job Locations: Australia, Victoria, Kilsyth - Melbourne, VIC
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Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact it is an expectation within Henkel that our talent is flexible and mobile. This helps to support the company on a broad, global level.
Our “Triple Two” philosophy promotes this expectation, by allowing you to work in at least two different roles, in two different business areas and two different countries. The reason behind this philosophy is that we believe working in different roles, business units and functions is good for your personal development and improves your understanding of Henkel as a global company.
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