💼 Full-Time Position

Reliability Engineer

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Westland Milk Products
📍 hokitika, west coast, New-Zealand
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Location
hokitika, New-Zealand
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Posted
June 27, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Join a global dairy leader and play a key role in improving plant reliability, reducing downtime, and driving performance across our operations.

At Westland Milk Products, part of the Yili Oceania group, we produce high-quality dairy products for global markets and are on a journey to lift asset performance through best‑practice reliability and maintenance strategies.

About the Role

Reporting to the Reliability & Planning Manager, you will be responsible for identifying and managing asset reliability risks that impact plant performance, with a focus on loss elimination, risk management and lifecycle asset optimisation.

  • Analyse equipment performance, failure trends and downtime drivers
  • Develop and improve preventative and predictive maintenance strategies
  • Lead root cause analysis and implement sustainable solutions
  • Identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve uptime and optimise asset life
  • Support shutdown pl...