Maintenance Manager - Paper

Discover Opal Maryvale Mill…

One of Australia’s leading pulp and paper manufacturing sites in regional Victoria. Join a team focused on safety, innovation, and sustainability, where your skills contribute to essential everyday products. At Opal, you’ll find a supportive, collaborative environment with real opportunities for growth and development.

Discover the Opportunity….

Our Maryvale Paper Mill maintenance team is seeking an experienced maintenance manager to join us. Reporting to the Mill Maintenance Manager, this is a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving maintenance strategy, reliability, and team performance across critical production areas which will include our three paper machines and waste paper plant ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality operations.

You will lead a dedicated team of both direct and indirect reports, fostering a safe, inclusive, and high-performing culture.

The focus of this role will be to:

• Ensure reliability of plant and assets, supporting production efficiency and output targets, across the paper group
• Oversee maintenance execution and major asset shutdowns
• Implement process controls and cost improvement strategies with a specific focus on disciplined work order processes and management of critical spares
• Embed operational discipline, process stability and effective utilisation of available assets
• Apply structured problem-solving and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to rectify quality issues and leverage CMMS tools for sustainable operational gains
• Lead the paper group maintenance budget, monitor contractor performance, and oversee a robust critical spares strategy
• Drive our "Zero Harm" principles, ensuring all maintenance activities across the paper group meet Opal’s health & safety, environmental, and regulatory standards

What you’ll bring….

We are looking for an established maintenance leader with experience and technical knowledge in the paper industry.

We value:

• A tertiary qualification in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, or related discipline)
• A track record of leading teams in a unionised setting, with the ability to build high-trust environments and foster high levels of engagement
• Well-developed influencing skills with the ability to negotiate common ground and articulate the rationale for change to diverse stakeholders
• A deep understanding of statutory asset management requirements and a track record of delivering major shutdowns on time and within budget

What Opal can offer you….

• The opportunity to work on a large scale and complex industrial site
• A role that will be part of the maintenance leadership team and provide technical and operational insights that will contribute to site-wide strategy and cultural alignment
• A work environment that prioritizes values first and will empower you to think and act like an owner

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