Maintenance & Reliability Engineer

About us:

At AROA, our people come to work every day with passion and ideas that fuel our business and go home at the end of each day knowing they have made a real difference in the lives of others.

AROA, which is Māori for ‘understanding’, is proudly New Zealand born and based. Our specialized range of soft tissue repair products utilises our successful Aroa ECM biomaterial and is sourced exclusively from NZ sheep, (upcycling a natural byproduct, so it doesn’t go to waste!) We develop, manufacture, and export innovative wound care products, improving the lives of millions around the world by unlocking extraordinary outcomes for our patients.

About the role:
We’re looking for a Maintenance and Reliability Engineer to join our Technical Operations team. Your mission in this role developing and implementing preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance strategies to improve equipment performance, minimize downtime, and support GMP-compliant manufacturing operation. You’ll provide hands on technical support across the facility infrastructure and product equipment. You’ll use data driven approach where to extend asset life and reduced cost.

Your day will also include:

• Managing and optimizing CMMS system to reduce cost and minimize downtime
• Design and implement preventive and predictive maintenance strategies across critical utilities, infrastructure and production equipment.
• Analyse performance data to identify failure modes and develop strategies to boost uptime and equipment lifespan.
• Respond swifty to equipment breakdowns and provide technical support to production teams
• Develop KPI’s, dashboard, and repots to drive decision making and performance improvements
Ensure maintenance activities comply with GMP standards and Health & safety regulations (HSWA)

About you:
You’re hands on technical engineer with strong practical skills and a keen eye for details. You thrive on solving complex issues and improving systems reliability using data driven methods. You understand that clear, through documentation is critical for long term success, compliance and continuous improvement – and you’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves to ensure it done right. A significant part of your role will involve working with platforms like MaintainX so prior experience is essential. You communicate effectively, manage task efficiently and bring strong commitment to both safety and continuous improvements in everything you do. You have had hands-on experience developing KPI’s, dashboards, and performance reports ideally using tools like Power BI, Excel or similar and you know how to use them to support decision making and drive continuous improvement

What’s in it for me?
At AROA, you will be part of a purpose-driven company that is transforming regenerative medicine. You will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment, collaborate with a passionate team, and contribute to making regenerative healing more accessible for every body . Based in Airport Oaks with easy access to the motorway, there is plenty of parking available around our offices. Our benefits also include an onsite gym, leave on your birthday and other health & wellbeing benefits.

To be considered for this opportunity you must have existing NZ working rights.