About the role

Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will lead our Production and Warehouse operations while managing site maintenance activities, engineering projects and specialist contractors. As a key member of the site leadership team, you will be responsible for delivering operational results while contributing to the site's longer-term strategy, continuous improvement roadmap and future growth plans. You will play a critical role in building organisational capability, improving plant performance and ensuring the operation is well positioned to meet current and future business requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Lead daily Production and Warehouse operations, ensuring safety, quality, service, and productivity targets are achieved.
• Manage production planning, batching, blending, processing, packaging, inventory management, and customer dispatch activities.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and support to supervisors and frontline teams to build capability, accountability, and a high-performance culture.
• Manage site maintenance activities and manage specialist contractors to ensure plant reliability, equipment uptime, and operational efficiency.
• Manage planned maintenance programs, breakdown response, contractor performance, and engineering service providers.
• Lead engineering, capital improvement, and continuous improvement projects from planning through to implementation.
• Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing capability, capacity, asset performance, efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Ensure plant equipment, utilities, and infrastructure are maintained and fit for purpose to support current and future business requirements.
• Monitor and improve key performance indicators including safety, quality, productivity, downtime, waste, inventory accuracy, customer service, and operating costs.
• Ensure compliance with Workplace Health and Safety (WHS), Dangerous Goods, environmental, and ISO management system requirements.

About you

• Demonstrated experience within a chemical manufacturing environment.
• Strong people leadership skills with the ability to develop teams, drive accountability and build positive working relationships across all levels of the business.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing operational strategies, business improvement initiatives and change management programs.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing budgets, capital projects and operational performance metrics.
• Excellent communication, organisational, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• A hands-on approach with the ability to balance day-to-day operational demands with longer-term business improvement initiatives.
• Qualifications in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related discipline (preferred).
• Experience using ERP/CMMS systems and working within ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001 certified environments (preferred).
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, TPM, 5S, HAZOP, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), asset reliability, and continuous improvement methodologies (preferred).

About us

• We are a global chemical manufacturer supplying high-quality products to customers across Australia and international markets. With strong and sustained demand, we are committed to excellence in quality, safety, reliability, and innovation.