Maintenance Engineer

Are you a practical, hands-on Maintenance Engineer who enjoys solving problems, keeping production moving, and working in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment?

This is a great opportunity to join a busy engineering team where your technical skills, reliability, and improvement mindset will make a real impact every day. The working days and hours for this role are Tuesday-Saturday, 6am-2.30pm.

About you

You’ll be a trade-qualified engineer with strong mechanical maintenance experience with exposure and experience with electrical systems and software-related devices, ideally gained in food manufacturing, FMCG, or another fast-paced production environment. You’ll enjoy being on the tools, thinking on your feet, and working as part of a team that takes pride in keeping equipment and production running safely and reliably.

About Us

At Walter & Wild, we're proud to be one of New Zealand's leading food manufacturers, with a portfolio that includes some of the country's most iconic brands: Hubbards, Hansells, Horleys, I Love Food Co., Aunt Betty's, Vitafresh & Vitaport, Greggs, Alfa One, Movenpick (NZ & AU), NZ Natural.

About the role

You’ll play a key role in supporting our production, quality, health and safety and wider engineering teams to minimise downtime, improve reliability, and keep our manufacturing operation running at its best to achieve daily targets safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality and food safety standards.

What you’ll be doing

• Carrying out planned and corrective maintenance on food manufacturing and packaging equipment.

• Responding quickly and effectively to breakdowns to minimise production downtime.

• Completing asset inspections, preventative maintenance tasks, work orders, and maintenance documentation.

• Providing practical technical advice on plant machinery, electrical systems, faults, improvements, and maintenance requirements.

• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives focused on reliability, efficiency, safety, quality, and waste reduction.

• Working collaboratively across shifts and ensuring clear handovers on issues, fixes, and follow-up actions.

• Assisting with spare parts management, staff training, and engineering project work as required.

• Maintaining strong standards of health, safety, food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practice.

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• A current NZ Trade Certificate in fitting, turning, machining, mechanical engineering, or equivalent.

• At least 3-4 years’ engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Strong fitting, turning, mechanical fault-finding, and preventative maintenance skills.

• Experience with electrical systems

• Experience with TIG welding, particularly stainless steel.

• Good pneumatic experience, with boiler and steam service skills highly valued.

• Electrical skills or an NZ electrical operating licence would be advantageous.

• A positive, reliable, safety-focused approach and a genuine team-player mindset.

• A willingness to share knowledge, mentor others, and contribute to ongoing improvement.

Why join us?

• Join a well-established food manufacturing business with a busy, hands-on engineering environment.

• Work with a supportive team where your ideas, technical input, and problem-solving skills are valued.

• Enjoy variety across preventative maintenance, breakdowns, improvement initiatives, and project work.

• Play a key role in keeping production running safely, efficiently, and to high food safety standards.

• Be part of a practical, improvement-focused culture where no two days are the same.

Ready to apply?

If you’re an experienced Maintenance Engineer who enjoys the pace, challenge, and variety of food manufacturing, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now with your CV and tell us why this role is the right next step for you.