Woodlands Enterprises is a long-standing, family-owned poultry business based in Beerwah on the Sunshine Coast. For more than 100 years, Woodlands has been growing chickens and eggs locally while maintaining a strong focus on quality, freshness and reliability.

We are seeking an experienced and practical Operations Manager to lead and coordinate Woodlands’ maintenance and operational support functions across our poultry farms and facilities. This is a hands-on leadership role with accountability for safe and efficient work delivery, departmental performance, maintenance planning, job control, operational systems and cost management.

Working closely with Department Managers, farm management, Projects, Purchasing, Finance, Human Resources and senior management, you will ensure maintenance and repair work is properly planned, completed, recorded, costed and closed out. You will also play a key role in ensuring chargeable farmer repair works are accurately captured and invoiced in a timely manner.

Why this role is appealing

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a broad operational function within a stable and established local organisation. You will have the scope to strengthen systems, improve accountability, develop managers and drive practical improvements across maintenance and operational support.

You will have the opportunity to:

•      Lead maintenance and operational support across Woodlands’ poultry farms and facilities

•      Build clear accountability across Department Managers for work planning, completion and job close-out

•      Improve operational controls across TimeTrak, MYOB, WHS, purchasing and job-costing processes

•      Manage the process for identifying, costing and invoicing farmer repair works

•      Drive improvements in maintenance efficiency, downtime, rework, labour utilisation and cost control

•      Work closely with senior management and operational leaders on priorities, projects, resourcing and performance

About the role

The Operations Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating maintenance and operational support functions across the business. You will establish work priorities, monitor delivery and ensure Department Managers maintain strong standards of supervision, safety, documentation, system compliance and financial administration.

A key focus of the role is ensuring that work is not considered complete simply because the physical task has finished. Department Managers will be accountable for ensuring required TimeTrak records, WHS documentation, costing information, MYOB-related administration and any farmer invoicing information are also complete and accurate.