Goodman Fielder Papua New Guinea is one of PNG’s largest food companies, manufacturing and distributing high-quality Flour, Stock Feed, Rice, Snacks and Bakery products throughout the country. Well-known products and brands include Flame Flour, Flame Stockfeed, Flame Oil & Sugar, Flame Rice, Bilas Bread, Skel Rice, Twisties snacks, Arthurs Pies, and the Meadow Lea range.

At GFI, we care about making everyday food better for everyone.

Our goal is to be the leading and most innovative food company with a mission to meet our customers’ needs for superior quality foods with brands that are trusted by families everywhere. We are the go-to source of consumer, shopper, and customer insights to help our customer and business partners succeed.

We currently have a vacancy for Bakery Team Leader to join our already strong and effective Maintenance Team in POM. Reporting to the Maintenance Engineer, the successful incumbent directs, coordinates, and monitors the activities of workgroups involved in the Maintenance of the Bakery production Plant & Machinery and areas within.

The workgroup’s purpose is to maintain all machinery efficiently so there is very minimal or no downtime for the Bakery Production team so that they can meet packaging and sales requirements and to meet their objectives in the daily operations plan.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Driving Safety Work and Hygiene practises as a daily HABBIT at Workplace
   1. Focus on getting team members to maintain Self-Hygiene, workplace Housekeeping at respective workstations
   2. Focus on getting team to follow through in detail any requested Permit to Work procedure system
   3. Coordinate and follow up on Safety talk/walks (Lead observations) and report any safety findings (Hazzard)
   4. Take part and lead in achieving Quality and Safety compliance (QA & Safety Audits)
2. Drive “Teamwork” practice in our working environment.
   1. Communication – Follow up and making sure communication is very effective in workplace
      1. Effectively communicate between team and Supervisors
      2. Effectively communicate between Eng department and Process Managers & Supervisors.
   2. Drive and lead daily and weekly team meetings
      1. Safety Team meetings
      2. Work Order Meetings

• Eng Team Meetings

1. Plan and lead scheduled trainings on process/machine to team
2. Assist wherever possible to get team members flexibility to help others in needs & teach other.

1. Execution of the Planned Maintenance Work Order Cycle Process (Preventative & Corrective Maintenance)

1. Successfully manages and assists in Shutdown Maintenance.
1. Plan Daily, Weekly and Monthly Preventative & Electrical tasks and issue out to provide feedback in timely
2. Follow up and update critical Spare parts on regular basis
3. Executing corrective planned Mechanical Work orders on time

1. Required to monitor/Cover production lines as per overall production plans
   1. Shift coverage – Being available when called upon to cover productions lines or any other urgent work request
   2. Machine down time – Focus on Capturing and reducing total down times as fast as possible but in a safe manner
   3. Drive and making sure Breakdown escalation process works in timely manner
   4. Responsible for collecting, Analysing, and reporting breakdown reports to team
   5. Drive and implement the breakdown analysis.

To be considered for the role, you will need to have/ be:

Technical/Functional Competencies

Qualifications, (e.g. Tertiary, trade)

• Minimum Grade 12 High School Certificate
• Maintenance Trade Certificate

Business/Technical Skills, (e.g. computing, negotiating, leadership, project management):

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Possess satisfactory language, mathematical and reasoning skills

Experience (Technical and Behavioral):

• Previous experience in Maintenance Fitting
• At least three years’ experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment, with demonstrated success in a similar level position within the FMCG industries.
• Ability to self-manage and use initiative
• Punctual and reliable.
• Team Player
• Previous experience with continuous high-speed processing and packaging equipment in an industrial food production environment.
• Ability to do problem solving

Be part of the Skel life and join a team that values healthy eating and active lifestyles and wants to share that with all the people of PNG. Still interested? Send your letter of application and CV/resume with at least 2 referees to:

Internal Recruiter,

Goodman Fielder Papua New Guinea

P.O. Box 673, Port Moresby NCD PNG

E-mail: [email protected]

Please submit your application in either word or pdf and in only one attachment.

Applications close Thursday 24^th April 2025.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.