Plant Manager - Townsville Plant

About Us

JBS Australia is the largest and most respected meat and food producer in Australia. We have a strong portfolio of leading and renowned beef, lamb, pork, salmon and value-added branded products, such as AMH, Swift, Primo, Murray Valley and Huon.

Located 12km south of Townsville, a major gateway to Queensland’s world-renowned Great Barrier Reef, the JBS Townsville processing facility is JBS Australia’s most northern operation. Cattle are sourced from a wide supply area, including the Northern Territory, north and north-western Queensland and packed into the AMH brand, the most trusted name in beef. The facility employs approximately 430 employees and processes approximately 900 head per day, operating 4 days/week.

Why work for JBS Australia?

• Competitive salary + performance based annual bonus 
• Access to novated leasing options
• Heavily discounted meat products
• Retail discounts with national partners
• Health insurance discounts on Bupa Health and Medibank Private
• Ongoing leadership training and career development opportunities

About the Role

We currently have a rare opportunity to join the JBS Australia team and lead our most Northern operation as a Plant Manager at JBS Townsville. Reporting directly to the General Manager Operations Northern, you will lead an experienced team, ensuring safe production and optimising our kill and bone yields across our 4-day production week.

This role will be responsible for four key objectives:

1. Ensuring a safe production of the JBS Townsville operation;
2. Astute management controls to maximise revenue streams against a cost-efficient production process to continually increase ROI;
3. Ensuring the site operates within the regulatory requirements of all relevant legislative bodies, as well as JBS policies and procedures; &
4. Providing leadership and direction to the production leadership team and their direct reports, to ensure all Departments are operating at their optimal capacity to meet and exceed Company objectives.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining control of all aspects of plant production, either directly or through the provision of effective leadership of production leadership team
• Achieving site throughput targets whilst maintaining emphasis on food safety, WHS, employee relations, and product specifications
• Managing the plant operation and KPI benchmarking, including regular management team review meetings, to ensure consistent process and product recovery performance outcomes are achieved across all plant operations
• Taking accountability for process improvement, initially focused on process consistency across the site, including technology application to ensure beef processing best practice outcomes are delivered to JBS Australia
• Adherence to budgetary and cost control
• Ongoing review of financial performance of establishment including capital expenditure planning and cost controls
• Partnering with the HR team to ensure effective people management as well as succession planning for key operational roles and initiatives to address attendance and retention
• Supporting the engineering function and ensuring effective CAPEX and repairs and maintenance management
• Meeting all requirements relating to Quality, OHS, people and Environmental Management
• Undertaking projects and activities as directed by the General Manager Operations Northern

About You

• Extensive experience in the meat or manufacturing industry (ideally 10+ years)
• Strong business acumen and financial management knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to provide situational leadership
• Ability to identify basic cause & effect relationships
• Ability to respond calmly in difficult situations, maintaining a strong customer service focus
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Takes other's perspective's into account
• Energetic, passionate and enthusiastic with a demonstrated focus on continuous improvement

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