Maintenance Assistant

at  Foodstuffs North Island

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 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

• 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.