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About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Every day, they partner with customers to create healthier, tastier, and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world.

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Your role

The role of the multi-skilled technician–mechanical is to support the operations team in delivering to its customers the highest quality product, on time and in full while ensuring the equipment is safe in its operation for both personnel and the product it produces. This multi-skilled Technician is the custodian of the equipment and systems within the plant, to this end the person performing this role will be required to perform emergency response support to operations for all equipment issues, minimising downtime and waste. 

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrates leadership in the area of safety. Ensures all works undertaken during maintenance activities performed do not breach the appropriate health and safety standards and where necessary will assist others and/or report safety breaches.
• Responsible for ensuring up-to-date knowledge of Kerry policies, and regional, national, and local legislative requirements necessary in performing the tasks associated with the role of the maintenance engineer.
• Participates in process and equipment risk assessments and HACCP studies as necessary
• Please click the Apply on the Employer Site button for more information.

Training & development

Kerry's learning and development function supports its Career Review process by providing challenging, business-oriented, leadership and employee career development programmes aligned to organisational priorities. These programmes include a blend of classroom, virtual and interactive content focused on developing technical, functional, and leadership skills. Read more. 

Salary & benefits

Maintenance Fitter roles may earn an average of A$69,000 to A$78,000. (Source: Glassdoor)

Kerry Australia offers a competitive salary to invest in you and your development. At Kerry, they believe Total Reward is about more than just pay and financial rewards. It encompasses career development, personal growth, and access to worldwide opportunities in an inclusive culture where its people can flourish. These rewards/benefits include:

1. Global recognition programme
2. Long-term incentive plan
3. Wellbeing
4. Read more. 

Career progression

Kerry has maintained a focus on building the quality of its leadership team, making key strategic appointments as well as continuing to invest in building future leaders. Activities to accelerate succession readiness of identified leadership talent have included participation in externally benchmarked assessments, internally led 360-feedback tools to better target leadership development plans, individual coaching, and mentoring. Read more.

Work life balance

Kerry’s new agile working framework addresses the paradigm shift in ways of working brought about by the pandemic and facilitates the implementation of a coherent and consistent global approach to agile working, whilst also ensuring sufficient flexibility at a local level to shape specific policies and programmes to meet local business, market or cultural needs. Read more.

Culture & vibe

Kerry respects the unique perspective and experiences of each of its colleagues. They celebrate the differences that make life interesting and continue to build on their work to date. Read more.

About you

Here's what Kerry is looking for in this role:

Qualifications and Skills

• Trade or degree qualified - Mechanical or Electrical. – · Multi-skilled / cross-skilled capability · Qualification in Process Engineering & Design
• Strong knowledge & experience in manufacturing electro/mechanical automated equipment & processes including pneumatic, hydraulic, and instrumentation-controlled systems.
• Knowledge & experience with facilities plants, Boilers (steam or Hot water), refrigeration, air handling, effluent treatments plants,
• Demonstrate capability in trouble shooting electro-mechanical systems safely
• Knowledge of electro-pneumatic and pneumatic components & systems
• Strong knowledge of Mechanical & fluid drive processes and systems

How to apply

To apply for this role, simply click the "Apply on employer site" button on this page to submit your application directly to Kerry.