Senior Maintenance Technician

Excellent opportunity to challenge and build on your technical experience

Permanent position to commence as soon as possible

Join an experienced team

The Opportunity:

Are you an enthusiastic and disciplined Senior Maintenance Technician that likes variety in your role?  Do you have an interest in medical devices? 

This is an incredible opportunity to use your skills to provide support to production or engineering with mechanical and electrical installations. You will also be responsible for ensuring that maintenance activities (scheduled or breakdown) are completed on time and to Australian Standards.

At Cook Medical, we understand that unique perspectives, ideas and contributions only strengthen our workforce and encourage innovation through solving problems together.  You will be joining a collaborative, high performing team who are constantly looking at ways to evolve and improve the way we work. 

• Perform preventive and breakdown maintenance on plant and equipment both electrical and non-electrical following maintenance schedules and procedures.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair faults on production equipment. Test and make necessary adjustments to ensure proper operation before releasing equipment back to production
• Record and sign-off activities in computerised maintenance management system
• Ensure spare parts are ordered and in stock for planned maintenance events
• Liaise with equipment manufacturers, or agents for equipment services or repairs

• Trade qualified mechanical fitter with restricted electrical qualifications or electrical fitter/mechanic license (full license) or similar essential
• Demonstrated experience performing high quality maintenance activities on plant, production machines and equipment essential
• Demonstrated experience in a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) environment like pharmaceutical, defence, food, automotive or chemicals desirable
• Experience working within a Quality Management System (QMS) desirable
• Experience with the maintenance of production robotics, automated production equipment and experience with programmable logic controllers (PLC) highly desirable
• Demonstrated skills and experience in relation to safety, including risk management

Employee Benefits:

• State of the art facility, onsite parking
• Base salary plus performance-based quarterly bonus and annual leave loading
• Prioritise your physical and mental wellbeing with access to onsite gym, our employee assistance program and company paid top hospital private health cover
• Subsidised cafeteria, wellness room, prayer room and onsite parking
• Ongoing support, mentoring and professional development
• Inclusive team culture with opportunities to join our community engagement initiatives
• Overtime paid on weekends and/or after hours

About us:

Since 1963, Cook Medical have been inventing, manufacturing, and delivering a unique portfolio of medical devices to healthcare systems around the world. We work closely with physicians to develop technologies that improve patients’ lives. Because we remain family owned, we have the freedom to focus on what we care about: patients, our employees, and our communities.

At Cook Medical, whether we service patients, customers or colleagues, we all share a culture and a set of core values.  The reflection of Cook’s seven values in our daily business activities is an expectation of us all.  By acting with integrity, being transparent and treating everyone with respect we can truly collaborate and be open to different ideas and perspectives.

Supporting a Diverse Workforce:

We are proud of our diverse workforce and value individual contribution. We appreciate that every employee can add value to our Organisation in their own unique way and want to ensure that our company culture stays balanced and strong. 

We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people with disability, those from diverse cultural backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI+ community, and anyone else who wants to be a part of our Cook Australia family.

Community Commitment:

Our community program seeks to have a positive, transforming impact on our people, the environment and our local community. The program has four pillars:

• Community Engagement: We support our local community through philanthropy, education and partnerships. Our employees have been at the forefront of these initiatives, and we’re proud of their contribution to making our community stronger.
• Environment and Sustainability: We are committed to being good stewards of the environment by aiming to ensure that our practices and processes are sustainable and responsible.
• Employee Engagement: We invest in our internal community through developing our employees, supporting their wellbeing and promoting an inclusive and diverse culture.
• Reconciliation: We’re exploring a pathway towards making a meaningful commitment to Reconciliation by strengthening our understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ cultures, history and diversity.

Learn more about us:

Visit www.cookmedical.com.au/careers