Engineering Specialist - Asset Care

Introducing Suntory Oceania

Craft your future with Suntory Oceania, a new $3b multi-beverage partnership between Suntory Global Spirits and Suntory Beverage and Food. Underpinned by quality, craftmanship and a strong sense of purpose.

Our market-leading portfolio will have over 40 brands including Jim Beam® and Maker’s Mark® Bourbon, Hibiki® Japanese Whisky, Canadian Club® Whisky, -196, V Energy, Maximus and Suntory BOSS Coffee. 

Inspired by our Yatte Minahare spirit, which encourages us to dream big, Suntory Oceania has recently built a $400 million new state of the art manufacturing & distribution facility in Swanbank, Queensland, that is highly automated and has sustainability and a carbon neutral ambition, aligning with our Growing for Good philosophy.

The Opportunity

The Asset Care Specialist will execute the site Asset Care Strategy aligned to industry best practice and World Class Manufacturing. Successfully delivering the site maintenance and equipment improvement requirements, across the operational site.

With an improvement focused mindset, you will continuously strive to deliver innovate maintenance solutions for reliable equipment performance and collaborate with internal & external teams to deliver the Asset Care Strategy.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide insight to the manufacturing processes, continuously striving for the improvement of quality, safety or enhancing efficiency and performance.
• Supporting the team to achieve site targets.
• Utilise best practice engineering and technology to improve equipment performance levels and the efficiency of the manufacturing operation.
• Lead reliability problem solving activities relating to plant failures or performance issues ensuring relevant outcomes are captured in the equipment maintenance plans.
• Ensure integrity of documentation, software, data, systems and SAP data entry is accurate and up to date.

Experience that you will bring:

To enable you to hit the ground running, we’re looking for someone is outcome focused with a positive can-do attitude as well as:

• Certificate or Trades qualification in Electrical & Mechanical
• Experience in reliability management
• Lean manufacturing industry experience
• Strong ability to analyse relevant performance and maintenance metrics to recommend improvement activity within the maintenance system and approach.
• Beverage, FMCG or Food process industry experience in an Asset Management role highly desirable.

Apart from free drinks to keep you energized, here’s what else we have to offer:

• Grow your career – we like to promote from within and have incredible learning and development opportunities around the world.
• An inclusive parental leave policy for both primary and secondary caregivers.
• Gradual return to work to help you transition back from parental leave.
• Flexible working – flexible start and finish times and hybrid working.
• Discounted health insurance.
• We are committed to giving back to our communities so we provide you with volunteer leave to do so.