At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational effectiveness.
- Company: Dynamic organisation focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Gain hands-on experience, develop skills, and make a real impact.
- Other info: Opportunity for growth in a fast-paced, supportive environment.
- Why this job: Be a change-maker and drive meaningful improvements across the business.
- Qualifications: Strong communication skills and experience in business improvement initiatives.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
Continuous Improvement/Operations Lead
Location
Port Macquarie
Term
6 months (TBC)
Reporting to
Head of People & Culture
The Role
We\'re looking for a hands-on Continuous Improvement or Operations Leadto help improve how work gets done across a division of the organisation.
This is a practical, delivery-focused role for someone who can identify improvement opportunities, bring people together, create structure where it\'s needed, and drive initiatives through to implementation.
The role will focus on improving operational effectiveness, aligning processes across teams, creating consistency in ways of working, and ensuring business initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.
Working across multiple functions, you\'ll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, with the Head of People & Culture acting as the key sponsor.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate change, improvement and operational initiatives across the business.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve efficiency and enhance ways of working.
- Drive continuous improvement projects from concept through to implementation and adoption.
- Review, align and standardise processes to create consistency across teams and functions.
- Develop and document processes, procedures, workflows and SOPs.
- Leverage AI and technology tools to improve productivity, documentation and operational effectiveness.
- Facilitate workshops, project meetings and stakeholder forums to drive outcomes and accountability.
- Establish project plans, timelines, actions and governance to ensure successful delivery.
- Monitor progress, remove roadblocks and ensure initiatives achieve intended business outcomes.
- Build strong relationships across the organisation and support people through change.
About You
Youneed to be someone with good energy, take initiative andwho gets stuff done.
You\'re naturally curious, enjoy solving problems, and don\'t wait for perfect information before getting started.
Curious, practical and comfortable working things out rather than waiting for a perfect brief.
You\'ll bring
- Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing and communication skills.
- Experience leading business improvement, change or transformation initiatives.
- The ability to create structure, clarity and accountability in fast-moving environments.
- Excellent organisational and project coordination skills.
- Confidence facilitating meetings and driving outcomes.
- A practical, solutions-focused mindset.
- Strong process improvement and documentation capability.
- An interest in AI, technology and innovative ways of working.
- Flexibility and adaptability when priorities shift.
- A continuous improvement mindset and desire to make things work better.
- In a Nutshell
This is an opportunity for a practical improvement leader who can step into a business, assess what\'s working and what\'s not, align processes, create structure, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful change.
You\'ll combine project delivery, operational improvement and change management capabilities to ensure initiatives are not only designed well, but successfully implemented and embedded.
For any questions or a confidential conversation, call Jo on 02 6691 9106 or Mary or 02 6691 9102
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