Plant Maintenance Engineer

New Zealand Steel, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueScope, manufactures and markets a range of flat rolled steel products for the building, construction, manufacturing and agricultural sectors.  You may know us for our flagship COLORSTEEL® brand.

We are currently seeking an experienced Plant Maintenance Engineer to join the SteelServ team in a permanent role working standard 8-hour days.

About the role

Reporting to the Maintenance Superintendent, you will play a critical role in maximising plant and mobile equipment reliability and availability to ensure SteelServ operations consistently meet production, safety, quality, and cost targets.

You will apply your strong mechanical and technical knowledge to analyse equipment failure modes, identify improvement opportunities, and drive effective maintenance strategies across both fixed plant and mobile equipment. Your leadership capability will be key in supervising and supporting a team of trades specialists, ensuring work is planned, prioritised, and executed safely and efficiently.

As a hands-on leader, you will coordinate daily maintenance activities, manage resources, and work closely with operations and engineering teams to maintain plant condition within budgeted throughput and maintenance costs, while fostering a positive and high-performing team environment.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• A Trade or Engineering qualification in Mechanical or Electrical disciplines, or significant equivalent experience
• Strong mechanical and mobile equipment background, ideally within heavy industry or production environments
• Demonstrated technical knowledge of CAT, Volvo, and Komatsu equipment
• Proven supervisory or leadership experience, leading trades teams and coordinating maintenance activities
• Sound understanding of maintenance management and reliability principles
• Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and organisational skills
• The ability to adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced operational environment
• A strong, uncompromising commitment to health and safety
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative, team-focused approach

Being part of the BlueScope brand makes us a strong and successful global company offering connections throughout the world and providing access to resources and tools from the wider business. We believe our people are our strength and embrace diversity and inclusion as we aim to have the right people in the right roles to move us into the future. 

We have opportunities for learning and development, unique work location, onsite medical centre, free parking, an excellent remuneration package and a supportive team environment.

Does this sound like the next step in your career? Click ‘Apply’ now!

If you encounter any accessibility barriers to our standard recruitment process, please reach out to NZSRecruitment@bluescopesteel.com so they can support you to participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

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