Your Impact
As Brewing Engineer, for an 8-month secondment, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable and efficient operation of the brewing equipment at our Abbotsford Brewery.
Combining technical expertise with people leadership, you’ll coordinate maintenance activities, coach our maintenance team and trade specialists, and provide technical advice to improve equipment availability. You’ll also support asset renewal, capital projects and continuous improvement across the brewery.
Safety will be central to how you operate. You’ll bring a strong understanding of engineering and maintenance safety requirements and take a considered, methodical approach to identifying risks, solving problems and delivering sustainable improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead safe maintenance practices, risk assessments, high-risk work processes, permits and workplace inspections.
- Apply strong technical safety knowledge across areas including pressure vessels, hazardous areas and hazardous chemicals.
- Coordinate planned maintenance activities and support the development of effective maintenance plans.
- Lead, coach and develop the Maintenance Planner and trade specialists, building capability and encouraging strong team performance.
- Manage contractors and ensure appropriate tools, spares, SOPs and permits are in place before work begins.
- Support preventative maintenance, longer-term asset renewal, CAPEX projects and plant and process improvements.
- Use structured problem-solving techniques to identify root causes and implement practical, sustainable solutions.
- Work closely with Brewing, Engineering, Packaging and Asset Management stakeholders to continuously improve equipment reliability and maintenance practices.
About You
You’re technically curious, safety focused and methodical in the way you work. You enjoy understanding how equipment and processes operate, working through problems logically and bringing people together to find better solutions.
Just as importantly, you’re a supportive leader who enjoys developing others. You don’t need to know everything from day one. You’ll bring strong technical foundations, curiosity and a genuine willingness to learn and continue building your brewing and engineering knowledge.
You’ll ideally bring:
- A tertiary qualification in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering or a related discipline.
- Engineering or maintenance experience within FMCG, manufacturing or another large process environment.
- Strong technical understanding and a practical approach to engineering safety and risk management.
- Leadership capability, with the confidence to coach, engage and support maintenance and trade teams.
- A structured, analytical and methodical approach to troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- An eagerness to learn, challenge existing thinking and continuously improve.
- Brewing process knowledge, SAP PM experience and/or trade experience would be advantageous