Engineering Assistant

Engineering/Maintenance Assistant

As an Engineering/Maintenance Assistant, you'll play a key role in maintaining and improving warehouse facilities and equipment across our Foodstuffs North Island's distribution network.

You'll also:

• Complete preventative maintenance and minor repairs on warehouse equipment, facilities, and infrastructure.
• Maintain buildings and site assets, including signage, barriers, racking, lockers, and warehouse fit-outs
• Coordinate contractors and support the delivery of engineering and maintenance projects across distribution centres.
• Ensure all maintenance activities meet safety, compliance, and documentation requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability, reduce costs, and enhance operational efficiency.

We're committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits

• Free carparking - we've got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
• Southern cross health insurance
• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

The ideal candidate will have:

• A minimum of 3+ years' maintenance experience in facilities, factory, plant, or distribution warehouse environments (preferable)
• Strong technical skills, including maintaining warehouse equipment, MHE, batteries and chargers, and safely operating hand and power tools (Welding and Lathe skills will be an advantage)
• Basic computer skills with experience using Microsoft Office and MEX
• Vehicle licences: Car, Forklift, and Elevated Work Platforms
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, plan workloads, and consistently deliver on deadlines.
• A flexible, solutions-focused approach, strong communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced 24/7 operational environment.
• Flexibility in working hours from time to time due to the 24-hour nature of our Foodstuffs operation

We're interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don't meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we'd still love to hear from you!

Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.

We're proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz . Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

Don't 'cart' around – apply now!