Graduate Maintenance Engineer
Lyka Pet Food, Australia
Job Description
Dog person? Want to work for a fast-growing start-up disrupting the pet wellness market?
Our capes are on to reshape an industry built around outdated and shady products and practices. Our first brand Lyka delivers fresh, human-grade meals as a subscription service to dogs across Australia.
Since our founding in 2018, we have served over 10 million meals to continue our mission to help pets live their best life, and we’re looking for an exceptional Graduate Maintenance Engineer to join our team as we enter our next growth phase.
About Lyka
Lyka was built on the belief that all puppers should live their best life. We deliver human-grade meals on a subscription to dogs all over Australia. We produce all of our food in our human-grade kitchen in Sydney.
Our company began when our founder Anna went on a journey to improve her dog Lyka’s health. Anna started creating a homemade diet for Lyka. In just a few weeks, Lyka had more energy, less tooth decay, and a healthier coat.
Since then, Team Lyka has grown to a team of driven and like-minded dog-lovers with a single shared goal: to serve our customers and their pupper with the best possible care on the planet. From improving digestive issues in puppers to bringing back the youthful energy in seniors we’re getting closer to our mission, every day.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a highly career driven maintenance engineer to take ownership over the maintenance and reliability of our manufacturing facilities. The maintenance engineer's responsibilities include planning and implementing preventative maintenance plans, liaising with contractors/trades, and managing the inventory of spare parts and consumables.
The maintenance engineer will work with a variety of machinery, building assets and plant. You will also work with a wide variety of stakeholders, including facility leadership. To be successful, you will demonstrate excellent organizational skills and be comfortable with managing multiple competing priorities. Outstanding maintenance engineers will also demonstrate excellent collaboration skills with all levels of facility staff, and constantly be looking for ways to provide improvement.
If you work well in dynamic environments and want the opportunity to contribute impactfully towards a start-up’s growth, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Developing amp; implementing preventative maintenance plans.
- Coordinating amp; sourcing relevant contractors and service providers.
- Managing amp; making orders for the inventory of spare parts and consumables
- Keeping the maintenance logs up-to-date amp; analysing trends to provide innovative recommendations
- Working with facility leadership to schedule major preventative maintenance services
- Providing support to other production/operations teams such as SHEQ amp; Process Engineering
- Keeping track of expenditure on preventative and reactive maintenance
- Leading facility/machinery improvement projects
- Developing and revising work procedures (SOPs)
Requirements
Note: Internship position with negotiable working hours is available if candidate is in their final year and not available for an immediate start
- Degree in relevant field such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering or property management
- Candidate must be graduating within 1 year, or have graduated within the last 3 years
- Strong organisation amp; time management skills
- Excellent communication amp; negotiation skills
- Proficient in the use of IT tools, including Microsoft Excel amp; Word
Benefits
- Growth and Development Lyka is growing extremely quickly, which means you will have the opportunity to experience different challenges every day and progressively acquire more responsibilities as our facility and team expands. We provide an annual Lamp;D budget for you to continue your personal development.
- Work for a sustainability focused company we care about the health of our dogs amp; our planet. Not only are we the only Australian carbon-negative pet food company, but we’re also working on offsetting all our staff's plastic use amp; carbon emissions, too!
- Be part of a diverse top talent team, coming from widely different backgrounds and geographies
- Wellbeing assistance amp; tools to take care of your mental amp; physical wellbeing so you can do your best work.
- Pupper parent support to care for your furry friends flexible arrangements for new pets, pet-friendly offices, discounts amp; a financial allowance for dog training amp; care to help them live their best life!