AddressJoin our team as a Production Area Manager reporting to the Operations Manager. You'll lead a medium-sized production team, focusing on continuous development to strengthen our unit and support site growth. Your role includes ensuring safe, high-quality operations aligned with company values. Educate, coach, and inspire your team to exceed KPIs in employee delivery, operational efficiency, safety, and quality. Drive continuous improvement initiatives and manage daily production and employee issues, ensuring adherence to schedules and implementing necessary countermeasures. This role requires a strong presence across all shifts and flexibility in scheduling.
About One Harvest
Our mission is to help people live better lives by offering fresher, healthier, easier everyday foods for everyone. With more than 25 years of experience, One Harvest are industry leaders in the Fresh Food/FMCG Industry, who have gained a reputation for innovation, sustainability and a shared passion for quality.
The One Harvest business network has grown to include four facilities, one farm and more than 1,000 team members across Australia that grow, harvest, process and supply our unique and value-add produce to supermarkets and green grocers around the country.
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Morning and Afternoon Shift Production Area Manager to join our fresh food manufacturing facility based in Smeaton grange, Sydney Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will take on a key operational leadership role and assist with all production related activities while enhancing our operations, mentoring your enthusiastic direct reports, and maintaining a focus on exceeding team and company targets.
A day in the life
- Support operations and guide the focus of your team to ensure efficiencies are at a maximum with both people and machinery
- Mentor, develop and lead your team leaders to take charge of daily production
- Create a product quality focus amongst teams that is upheld every day
- Identify and initiate continuous improvements in production processes and procedures
- Provide support to the Operations Manager on the site to deliver production throughputs and casefill
- Foster a strong sense of Work Health and Safety
- Achieve stock control and WIP targets
- Enhance work place planning and scheduling
About you
- Experience in FMCG or Short Shelf Life processing and manufacturing
- Experience with continuous improvement – advantageous but not essential
- Initiative, positively participate & lead by example
- A collaborative, and ‘can do’ attitude to achieve successful outcomes
- Refined communication skills and ability to build relationships and lead a team
- A ‘hands-on’ approach to management
What’s in it for you?
- An opportunity to advance your skills and capability working alongside industry professionals
- A genuine career path for goal oriented people
- A collaborative team environment with a dynamic company in a high-growth sector
- The chance to contribute to a company that is making a real difference in the lives of Australians
Belonging
One Harvest is an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace where individual strengths are valued, leading to increased diversity & innovation. One Harvest fosters a culture that ensures our people are genuinely included & encouraged to bring their whole self to work.
- Experience in a team leader or supervisory role in a similar industry (FMCG/Manufacturing)
- Strong leadership and people management skills, including the ability to develop and inspire others
- GMP, Food Safety, Workplace Health and Safety training and experienc
- Solid mechanical aptitude
- Strong analytical skills, problem solving and continuous improvement mindset. Ability to implement change
- Strong planning and organisational skills
- Agile in work approach and ability to respond to changing priorities and production demand in a timely and efficient manner
- Solid interpersonal and communication skills, with demonstrated emotional intelligence and influence
- Hands on team player, who leads by example
- Ability to effectively manage and resolve difficult situations and people challenges
- Sets and achieves high standards of performance for self and others
- Demonstrated ability to build constructive relationships with all stakeholders and contributes effectively to the overall needs and direction of the business
- Knowledge of LEAN manufacturing concepts and process improvement experience
