Maintenance Supervisor - Hastings

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role.

As Maintenance Supervisor, you will play a pivotal role in keeping our manufacturing site running safely, efficiently, and reliably. You will plan and oversee daily maintenance activities, manage work orders, and provide hands-on technical support alongside clear, supportive day-to-day leadership for your team.

You are a data-driven, safety-first leader who champions preventive maintenance and continuous improvement. By fostering a culture of respect, accountability, and excellence, you will empower your team to focus on improving plant reliability and applying lean principles to reduce waste and downtime.

This is a role for someone who enjoys being close to the action, balancing strategy with practical execution, and who takes pride in building a high-performing maintenance team that delivers dependable results for the site.

What you’ll be doing.

• Schedule, allocate, and oversee all maintenance resources, including external contractors as needed.

• Review and manage maintenance work orders, ensuring backlog is addressed on time and prioritising tasks based on operational requirements.

• Track team capacity and activity through SAP and Prometheus CMMS, ensuring accurate and timely data.

• Communicate defects and requirements to planners during planning and scheduling meetings.

• Act as a liaison to the operations team, facilitating work plan communication and completion of planned work.

• Participate in DAM/RTM daily meetings to align maintenance priorities with production and stakeholder requirements.

• Manage spare parts inventory, balancing availability, cost control, and specification compliance.

• Provide hands-on technical guidance, coaching, and day-to-day leadership to your team.

• Contribute to succession planning and support global best practices via auditing and compliance initiatives.

• Support implementation of advanced condition-based maintenance strategies.

• Foster a culture of respect, accountability, and “can-do” thinking, delivering high levels of service.

• Cover maintenance shifts when required, where appropriately qualified.

What you’ll need to be successful.

• At least 10 years’ experience working within an FMCG environment.

• Minimum 7 years’ supervisory leadership experience.

• Extensive contractor and high-risk work management experience.

• Proven history as a confident communicator with stakeholders at all levels.

• Recognised trade qualification in an electrical or mechanical field.

• High-level computer literacy and data analysis capability.

• Working knowledge of condition-based maintenance.

• SAP CMMS experience and effective negotiation/influencing skills.

• Advanced Excel and Prometheus exposure preferred.

• Lean manufacturing exposure (TPM, Six Sigma) highly regarded.

• A strong understanding of Workplace Health and Safety, with a genuine commitment to safe outcomes.

Benefits of the role.

• Opportunity to be part of a global iconic brand

• Fully subsidised insurances including health, income protection, life, and critical illness cover

• Employee & Family Assistance Program, and Education Assistance Programs

• Career growth and personal development pathways through internal training programs

• Matched KiwiSaver contribution up to 4%

• Opportunity to ‘Chip In’ and give back to the community as part of our paid volunteer program