Wiremu Maika

• Led and supervised production staff to achieve daily manufacturing targets while ensuring safety and quality standards.
• Supported Production Team Leader and Manager in daily operations to consistently meet production goals.
• Managed production activities during Team Leader absence, maintaining uninterrupted workflow.
• Monitored team performance and provided training to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Trained and mentored team members, promoting accountability, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Collaborated with maintenance, quality assurance, and logistics teams to facilitate seamless operations.
• Acted as liaison between frontline staff and management, relaying operational updates and resolving issues.
• Ensured compliance with health, safety, and quality standards across all production processes.

Certified Plant Roles:

• Product Quality Control Operator.
• Binding & Mixing Operator.
• Batch House Operator.
• Fibre / Glass Quality Control Operator.
• Level One Team-Leader.
• Maintenance Permit Issuer & Receiver.

Ensured maintenance staff adhered to competency standards.

• Developed technicians to fulfill organizational requirements.
• Collaborated with team members to coordinate work assignments.
• Delegated tasks based on individual skills and experience.
• Identified root causes of equipment losses through hands-on problem solving.
• Completed maintenance and repair work safely, effectively, and promptly.
• Managed material usage to maintain financial efficiency.
• Contributed to IMBMS Ltd's status as a leading construction equipment supplier in New Zealand.

Duties:

• Shooting and hauling commercial fishing nets on a deep-sea trawler boat (F.V Ocean Dawn)

• Fixing and repairing fishing nets when damaged.

• Repairing buoyancy objects and ropes.

• Splicing mega wire.

• Hauling and storing fish from the sea straight into the freezer.

• Working 6 weeks at sea per trip.

• Operating a single axle Over head crane at heights.

• Operating Heavy machinery for fish processing.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the safety of myself and my work co-leagues.

• Trouble shooting and doing visual checks daily on equipment to avoid near misses and fatal injures occurring.

• Safely hauling fishing nets, retrieving fish, and safely sending the net back out to sea. ( 5 times per day )

• Always being aware of potential hazards, and knowing how to deal with weather conditions under and circumstance.

Achievements:

• Qualified New Zealand Deckhand ( QDC ) - 2015-2018