Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Mondelēz International empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We're leading the future of snacking with iconic global and local brands such as Oreo, Cadbury, Philadelphia, Pascall, The Natural Confectionery Company, Belvita, Ritz and Toblerone with global revenues exceeding $31 billion USD.

We’re on the lookout for an experienced Facilities and Maintenance Manager to join our Truganina National Distribution Centre (TNDC). This is an exciting opportunity to play a crucial role in our new purpose-built, fully automated sorting and retrieval warehouse and mega distribution centre in Melbourne’s West.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Develop and execute a TNDC Facilities & Maintenance Strategy aligned to site Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Sustainability, Morale (SQCDM) objectives and the vision.
• Lead all contractor management activities, including performance governance, SLA compliance, safety adherence, and cost control across building services, automation support, utilities, fire systems, refrigeration and critical infrastructure.
• Own the maintenance planning & scheduling process, ensuring all Preventive Maintenance (PM) plans are robust, risk-based, and executed on time in line with Progressive Maintenance (PM) standards.
• Drive high PM compliance (>95%) and ensure effective execution of corrective and breakdown maintenance with strong root cause elimination.
• Lead the PM Pillar of IL6S, embedding Lean principles across site assets, coaching teams on loss analysis, breakdown elimination, and standardisation.
• Partner closely with Automation, Operations, Safety and Quality teams to ensure asset reliability supports OTIF and service targets.
• Own and manage the maintenance budget including Purchase Orders (POs), Invoice and accrual management, Monthly forecast tracking, Cost optimisation initiatives.
• Develop and maintain strong governance over spend controls, ensuring transparency of contractor labour, parts consumption and call-out costs.Ensure full compliance with Business Continuity Plans (BCP), statutory inspections, GMP standards and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain an effective CMMS (SAP PM) system discipline, ensuring work order accuracy, asset hierarchy integrity and meaningful KPI reporting.
• Lead safety within maintenance activities, ensuring contractor safety management systems are robust and compliant.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Proven experience leading Facilities & Maintenance in a large-scale automated warehouse or FMCG distribution environment.
• Strong contractor governance and vendor management experience across multi-service providers.
• Demonstrated experience managing maintenance budgets, POs, accruals and financial forecasting.
• Deep understanding of Preventive & Progressive Maintenance systems with high PM compliance delivery.
• Experience implementing or contributing to TPM / Lean Maintenance pillars.Strong working knowledge of SAP PM (or equivalent CMMS).
• Proven capability in maintenance planning & scheduling methodology.
• Experience managing critical infrastructure including building infrastructure, MHE, Fire protection systems, HVAC and utilities.
• Strong financial acumen with ability to identify cost optimisation opportunities without compromising reliability.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement capability able to influence contractors, cross-functional peers and senior leadership.

More about this role

Education / Certifications:

• Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Facilities Management or related discipline.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

At Mondelez International, our mission is to provide consumers with the right snack, for the right moment, made in the right way. We are one of the largest snack companies in the world, with global net revenues exceeding $31 billion USD.

We have operations in more than 80 countries and employ approximately 91,000 diverse and talented employees in our factories, offices, research & development facilities and distribution activities around the world.

In Australia and New Zealand, we have 6 factories, and both global and local brands, employing over 2,000 people; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Oreo, Toblerone, Philadelphia, bel Vita, Pascall, The Natural Confectionery Company, Sour Patch Kids and Ritz.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type

Regular

Manufacturing support

Manufacturing