Production Manager
Production Manager
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About this opportunity
We specialise in the manufacture and supply of rigid plastic and metal packaging servicing for the consumer and industrial sectors.
Reporting to the Site Manager the Production Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations across all three operating shifts (day afternoon and night) and ensuring optimal production performance by driving machine reliability and maximising labour efficiency.
The Production Manager is accountable for the daily optimisation of the extrusion assets and ensuring the efficient and cost-effective use of labour to manage the assets ensuring minimal downtime to maximise productivity whilst meeting production schedules in a high safety and quality focused manufacturing environment.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Lead and develop the team with a focus on identifying developing and creating a culture of open communication and collaboration
- Champion a safety-first culture that actively drives a culture of behavioural safety and preventative safety measures and activities
- Ensure quality standards are achieved and customer expectations and requirements are met
- Lead and manage the manufacturing activities to achieve the most effective outcome in support of the business objectives.
- Ensure all standards ISO HACCP and GMP standards and practices are achieved.
- Collaborate with quality assurance team to ensure production processes meet or exceed quality standards for all products
- Perform minor machine changes and adjustments if required and understand the difference between sub-optimal and optimal line set-ups
- Support the service teams maintenance and mould change to ensure production plans are meet
- Work with the maintenance team to support the development and implementation of preventive maintenance schedules to ensure improvements in machinery
- Ensure the optimisation of labour allocation through efficient planning of work and ensuring the right skills are available to support daily production requirements.
- Actively drive reliability of assets by ensuring equipment is running at optimal performance
Your skills and experience
To be successful in this role youll have:
- Previous experience in a 24/7 manufacturing/production environment (minimum of 5 years)
- Previous experience in leading motivating and managing a team in a manufacturing environment
- Proven experience in trouble shooting problem solving influencing and conflict resolution
- Excellent time management skills
- Strong problem solving troubleshooting and analytical skills
Qualifications :
- Certificate IV or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering Manufacturing or equivalent Trade Qualifications with work related experience is required
- Supervisory or Frontline Line Leadership training
Additional Information :
About us
Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging reuse and recycling solutions. Its a future-driven group commitment designed to create lasting value.
Were the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the regions biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6000 team members operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries and our customers include some of the worlds largest brands that consumers know and trust.
As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions weve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.
For us its about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business to give back to the environment and to enrich peoples lives every day.
Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.
Thats our future Pact. Lets lead the way together.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
