Site Engineering Manager

About Us:  

DuluxGroup is a leading marketer and manufacturer of premium brands that help people create better spaces to live and work. With a heritage of over 100 years, we’re home to trusted names like Dulux, Selleys, Yates, Cabot’s, and B&D, delivering products across paints, coatings, adhesives, garden care, and home improvement. As part of Nippon Paint Holdings, we combine global scale with strong local roots, driven by innovation, sustainability, and a commitment to our customers.  

Our Group Functions cover Supply Chain, Sales Capability, Finance, People & Culture, IT & Digital, and Legal. They are an integral part of our Business Units, enabling growth and operational excellence through the insights, technology and expertise that keep our businesses agile and future ready. Joining DuluxGroup means contributing to iconic brands, working in a collaborative culture, and enjoying opportunities for career growth and flexibility. 

What You’ll Be Doing:   

The Site Engineering Manager plays a pivotal role in driving safe, reliable and efficient site performance through strong maintenance leadership, disciplined engineering risk management and targeted asset improvement. Reporting to the Site Manager and forming part of the site leadership team, this role leads the maintenance team and contractors to keep a complex manufacturing site running safely and effectively, while improving plant reliability, uptime and operational performance.

The role is accountable for maintenance planning and shutdown discipline, engineering safety and compliance, contractor governance, and ownership of key engineering controls such as permits, isolations and Management of Change. It also acts as custodian of the site asset plan, leading capital and reliability improvement initiatives, using downtime and performance data to prioritise actions, support cross-functional site goals, and balance cost, risk, reliability and business needs.

Our Benefits:  

• Up to $1,000 net annually to cover private health extras gap costs  
• Exclusive discounts on DuluxGroup products and partner offers  
• Stay active anytime, anywhere through our partnership with Fitness Passport  
• 20 weeks paid parental leave (primary carers) and 2 weeks partner leave from day one  
• Market leading learning, development and career pathways  
• Access to our Wellbeing Hub and full EAP support 

What We’re Looking for:   

• Proven engineering leader with experience in manufacturing or process industries, including leadership of maintenance or trades-based teams in a complex operating environment
• Strong capability in asset reliability, maintenance systems, planning and scheduling, shutdown execution, contractor management and engineering risk management
• Demonstrated experience in hazardous or high-risk environments, including permits, isolations, compliance and Management of Change
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use downtime, maintenance and operational performance data to identify losses and drive practical improvement
• Experience shaping asset plans and leading capital or asset improvement projects through prioritisation, delivery and handover
• Effective people leader and communicator who builds team capability, influences across functions, and makes sound trade-off decisions across cost, risk, reliability and operational need

Why Join Us?  

Progressing your career with DuluxGroup means being part of a global network of more than 8,000 employees who believe in our purpose to ‘Imagine a Better Place’. 

With origins dating back to 1918, we are a leading marketer and manufacturer of iconic brands such as Dulux, Selleys, Cabots, Yates and B&D to name a few.   

By joining us, you will be a part of a long-term strategy to deliver profitable growth through brand leadership, innovation and customer intimacy. We are committed to internal mobility and growth while fostering an inclusive culture with flexible work options.  

If this sounds like an environment you would like to be a part of, please apply online!