Process Improvement Engineer

About Cottonsoft
We’re a proud FMCG manufacturer and distributor of market-leading, high quality, sustainably made toilet and tissue paper products throughout New Zealand for over 30 years. Our well-loved portfolio of retail and commercial brands include Paseo, CottonSofts, KiwiSoft, Tuffy, CUTE & CO., EarthSmart and Livi, and our product range includes toilet roll, facial tissue, paper towel, nappies, and wipes. Our Cottonsoft family is growing; we currently have over 200 employees throughout New Zealand and three manufacturing sites - two in the North Island in Auckland (Highbrook and Wiri), and one in the South Island in Dunedin.

To continue our success, we have a permanent, full-time Monday to Friday opportunity for a Process Improvement Engineer to join our Engineering Team at our Highbrook site.

The Opportunity

As the Process Improvement Engineer you are a valued contributor who will help us reach our operational goals by driving standardisation, improvements and efficiencies within our tissue converting site at Highbrook. You will contribute by:

• Supporting our Site Manager to direct and coordinate the operations of the manufacturing team to achieve planned goals and objectives
• Reporting on machine and shift performance, identifying opportunities to improve output, cost, waste, quality and safety
• Supporting Team Leaders with technical training and troubleshooting, as well as optimising and improving staff utilisation
• Building and maintaining standardised machine settings and standard cleaning practices and schedules
• Maintaining, updating and training on SOP's

About You

• Strong focus and awareness of workplace health and safety
• Relevant Engineering qualification
• Experience within a tissue converting operational environment
• Competence in the Microsoft Office Suite and Mex
• Have the ability to work autonomously, whilst being a great teammate and working towards achieving team goals
• Literacy and numerical skills
• Uses common sense and basic logic to solves challenges and provide effective solutions
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to build trusted working relationships
• A strong sense of accountability and ownership of role
• Time management and prioritisation skills with ability to deliver on objectives

What we can offer you

• Ongoing, secure employment
• Thorough and in-depth onboarding and training for this role as well as a supportive team environment
• Free onsite carparking
• Onsite gym
• Free weekly take home product allowance
• Heavily discounted product for yourself and family to purchase 
• Monthly bacon and eggs morning tea

Our Hiring Process at Cottonsoft

1. Submit your application via Seek
2. Phone Screen
3. Interview 
4. Reference Checks
5. Pre-Employment Drug and Alcohol Screen
6. Offer

Cottonsoft is committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Cottonsoft will consider qualified applicants for employment based on their merit, individual skills, qualifications, and other appropriate criteria to the role for which they are applying.

If you think that you have the skills and experience that can add value to our Engineering Team and are excited by an opportunity where you can develop, grow and work for a company that truly values its people, please apply today!

We are only accepting applicants who have the right to work in NZ.

No agencies please.