Maintenance Assistant

Maintenance Assistant

Join our Foodstuffs North Island Supply Chain Engineering Team as a Maintenance Assistant, where you’ll play a vital role in ensuring smooth and efficient operations across Auckland Distributions centres & Whangarei.  

What you’re responsible for

·       Conducting preventative maintenance checks and minor repairs on warehouse equipment, including racking, compactors, doors, dock levellers, refrigeration systems, orbital wrappers, and MHE.

·       Handling minor building repairs such as plumbing, carpentry, and painting.

·       Installing and maintaining signage, barriers, bollards, fencing, and other safety equipment.

·       Repairing lockers, shelving, racking, and other office and warehouse fit-out items.

·       Updating maintenance activities in the FSNI maintenance system (MEX).

·       Supporting compliance requirements such as Building Warrant of Fitness and other safety standards.

·       Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance safety.

·       Project managing small to medium maintenance and CAPEX projects.

·       Coordinating with operations leadership to align and communicate planned work.

·       Overseeing contractors on-site and ensuring safety documentation like Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and Permit to Work (PTW) is in place.

What skills and experience you need

·       Trade, Asset Management and / or Facility Maintenance experience preferred

·       Familiarity with Manual Handling Equipment (MHE), batteries and battery charging.  

·       Basic technical knowledge of a refrigeration system for storage freezers, chillers and ELA’s.

·       Basic computer skills required: Microsoft Office Suite and MEX (experience preferred)

·       Vehicle licences: Car, Forklift, and Elevated Work Platforms preferred

·       Maintain well organised systems; follow logical approaches to complete work on time and in full

·       Ability to reorganise priorities to meet urgent deadlines

·       Negotiate skilfully in difficult situations, continue to talk, and seek compromise in cases of disagreement

·       Realistic estimates of the time and resources to undertake a process

·       Effectively shifts priorities, multi-tasks and consistently meets deadlines

·       Due to the 24-hour nature of FSNI operations some flexibility in working hours will be required from time to time

About Foodies

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do.

We also have some great benefits:

·       Based in our Mangere office with loads of free parking.

·       A mini mart for those afternoon cravings and a café that makes great coffee & smoothies.

·       We are big on work life balance and as such have flexible working opportunities to allow you to get the most out of life!

·       Time off; Additional paid parental leave regardless of gender or of your parental role, birthday leave, long service leave, lifestyle breaks to name a few.

·       We’re big on celebrating and social events.

·       Wellbeing support; 5% store discount card, discount at local gyms, wellness room, access to online wellbeing tools and Southern Cross Health Care

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been waiting for, we’d love to hear from you!