Reliability Improvement Lead - 6 month contract

• 6 month contract - full time hours
• Global, award winning manufacturing organisation
• Mount Maunganui location

Our client is seeking a highly capable Reliability Improvement Lead to uplift preventative maintenance programmes, strengthen reliability practices, and improve asset performance across a busy manufacturing site.

This is a future focused role centred on driving preventative quality maintenance, reducing repeat failures, and embedding long term reliability improvements. Please note, this is not a hands on maintenance or breakdown response role. This is about optimising asset performance and improving systems.

If you’re motivated by identifying and implementing business improvements, through root cause analysis, reliability centred maintenance optimising asset health, then this role offers a unique opportunity to make a measurable operational impact and add real value.

What you’ll be doing:

Preventative Maintenance (PM) Programme uplift

• Reviewing existing PM strategies for critical assets
• Identifying gaps, over or under maintenance, and improvement opportunities
• Enhancing PM task quality, frequency, and alignment to asset criticality
• Ensuring PMs are risk-based, technically sound, and value adding
• Coordinating plant shutdowns for PM execution

Asset Reliability & Failure Reduction

• Analysing repeat failures and identifying contributing factors
• Supporting basic RCAs and failure mode reviews
• Recommending reliability improvements to reduce unplanned downtime
• Focusing on stabilising asset performance rather than full redesign

Supplier & Resource Capability

• Identifying specialist external maintenance providers
• Assessing supplier capability and suitability
• Supporting scope development for PM related contracts
• Contributing to an effective supplier support model

Maintenance Planning & Discipline

• Supporting improvements in planning and scheduling processes
• Enhancing visibility of PM workload and resource requirements
• Monitoring corrective vs preventative maintenance demand
• Contributing to maintenance window and shutdown planning

What you’ll bring:

• Ideally a trade or tertiary qualification in Engineering, Maintenance or Asset Management (or equivalent experience)
• Proven experience in reliability, maintenance improvement, or PM strategy in an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Strong understanding of preventative and condition based maintenance principles
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and improving PM programmes
• Experience with CMMS systems and maintenance planning processes
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a practical focus
• Experience working with external maintenance or specialist providers
• Knowledge of reliability or improvement methodologies (e.g., RCM, FMEA)
• Structured, disciplined approach and ability to work independently
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing capability
• Comfortable in a hands on operational site environment

Additional requirements:

Only candidates with existing NZ work rights and availability to commence soon will be considered. Unfortunately, overseas applicants cannot be considered for this contract role.

Next steps:

Fantastic opportunity to make your mark in creating future focused business improvements and asset management strategies, to further enhance and strengthen asset reliability and business continuity for our client!

Interested but would like to know more? Not a problem - reach out to Lisa McKerrow at Madison via email lisa.mckerrow@madison.co.nz and let’s make a time to chat!