At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead site operations, ensuring safety and productivity in a hands-on role.
- Company: A leader in resource recovery and sustainability across Australia and South-East Asia.
- Benefits: Opportunity for career growth in a progressive circular economy group.
- Other info: Confidential discussions and a culture that values people and performance.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on sustainability while driving innovation in manufacturing.
- Qualifications: Experience in production management and a strong focus on safety and efficiency.
The predicted salary is between 82800 - 101200 $ per year.
Our client is a leader in the recovery and re-manufacturing of primary resources, operating in Australia and South-East Asia, extracting maximum value from materials that would otherwise end up in landfill. The company stands out nationally because of its core values - particularly its dedication to innovation, its responsiveness in the market, and its unwavering commitment to sustainability. Their continued investment in advanced plant and equipment and utilising cutting-edge technologies set them apart.
We are in search for an experienced production or manufacturing professional to take on the role of Operations Manager, a key leadership position located either at our client’s main manufacturing facility in East Rockingham, responsible for all aspects of site operations. This is a hands-on position responsible for its safety culture, increasing productivity and product quality. Reporting to the General Manager Operations, this role is accountable for building a safety-first and a high-performance culture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive a culture of safety through leadership, role modelling and compliance to safety systems.
- Operational business improvement, full P&L responsibility, developing and achieving budgetary, forecasting, cost control and production targets (KPI metrics).
- Ensure maximum output is achieved without compromising safety and product quality.
- Ensure preventative maintenance and repairs of all plant and equipment to optimise uptime.
- Oversee production scheduling to minimise overtime and optimise productivity against OEM and benchmarking.
- Review production processes and make recommendations and implement new processes to improve quality, efficiency, productivity and profitability of operations.
- Value people, respect the knowledge base within the operations, understand the performance gaps and work with the people.
- Actively lead daily, weekly and monthly audits as required.
- Training and development of all staff to ensure standard of competencies to underpin safety and production performance.
- Manage the administrative function ensuring production and management reporting requirements are met.
About You:
- Track record in production or manufacturing management within a heavy manufacturing environment.
- Analytical, data driven and proven track record in the engagement and ownership of business improvement.
- Proven track record in lean manufacturing.
- Know what 'good' looks like, benchmark and standardise.
- Experienced in budgeting, budget management, forecasting, cost control and P&L.
- Proven performance across safety.
- Tertiary qualifications will be viewed as preferably but not a prerequisite.
This is a key role within a progressive circular economy group with a national footprint and a business philosophy in building scale across the market and becoming the lowest cost to make through innovation and shop floor culture - a significant opportunity for career growth. Discussions shall be treated with the strictest confidentiality.
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