Stone & Wood Brewery is looking for a Process Improvement Engineer to join our Murwillumbah brewery on a permanent full-time basis.
This isn't a desk-based engineering role. It's a hands-on role where you'll spend time on the brewery floor, working alongside our Brewing, Packaging and Engineering teams to identify opportunities, solve problems and implement improvements that make a real impact.
If you enjoy rolling up your sleeves, working closely with operators and turning ideas into practical improvements, we'd love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing:
Reporting to the Engineering Leader, you'll help our brewery run at its best by making our processes safer, smarter and more efficient. You'll partner closely with operators, maintenance and production teams to understand challenges firsthand and deliver practical solutions.
You'll be:
Working on the production floor to identify improvement opportunities and support operational teams.
Leading continuous improvement initiatives across brewery operations and utilities.
Using production data to improve efficiency, quality, reliability and plant performance.
Driving improvements in water, energy, CO₂, steam usage and production yield.
Investigating process issues, leading root cause analysis and implementing sustainable solutions.
Supporting capital projects, equipment upgrades and commissioning of new systems.
Building business cases for improvement opportunities and helping deliver them.
Collaborating with operators, engineers, maintenance teams and external suppliers.
Championing safe work practices while ensuring engineering changes meet food safety and quality standards.
About you
You're curious, practical and enjoy being where the action is. You like understanding how things work, solving problems at their source and working alongside frontline teams to improve the way things are done.
Ideally, you'll bring:
An Engineering degree or relevant trade qualifications with demonstrated engineering experience.
Experience in FMCG, food & beverage, brewing or another manufacturing environment.
Strong continuous improvement experience using Lean, TPM, RCA or similar methodologies.
Experience analysing production performance and using data to drive decisions.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work collaboratively across different teams.
A hands-on approach with excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Why Stone & Wood?
At Stone & Wood, you'll join a passionate team that genuinely enjoys working together. You'll have the opportunity to influence how we operate, see your ideas come to life on the brewery floor, and continue developing your engineering career in one of Australia's most iconic breweries.
If you're looking for a role where you can combine engineering, continuous improvement and hands-on manufacturing, we'd love to hear from you.
We’re a certified B Corp, which means we care about people, planet and purpose—not just profit. We’re committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we celebrate the unique perspectives that help us grow and innovate. We intentionally embrace difference and cultivate belonging every day, whether through our investment in our Reconciliation journey through our Innovate RAP, our commitment to gender pay equity or providing progressive people policies.
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