Production Area Manager

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Join 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. Experience working in a FMCG/GMP environment processing of salads and ready made meals.

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 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 opportunityfor an Morning and Afternoon Shift Production Area Manager to join ourfresh food manufacturing facility based in Wacol, Brisbane - Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will take on a keyoperational leadership role and assist with all production related activities while enhancing our operations, mentoring your enthusiastic direct reports, andmaintaining a focus onexceedingteam and companytargets.

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 – advantageousbut not essential
• Initiative, positively participate & lead by example
• Acollaborative, 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.

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Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing 101-1,000 employees

We are leaders in fresh produce. For three generations, the OneHarvest family of companies has been supplying Australian consumers with fresh, healthy, fabulous-tasting fruit and vegetables from a range of sources across the country.

We employ up to 1000 people across Australia and supply a range of fresh produce to supermarkets and greengrocers around the country. These products include pre-packed salads and stir-fry vegetables, prepared deli salads, fresh chilled meals as well as avocadoes and B74 mangoes (marketed under the Calypso brand).

We are focused on excellence in customer service and quality and take pride in being one of the most advanced and innovative fresh produce companies in Australia.

Source: this is an extract from the company's own website.

We are leaders in fresh produce. For three generations, the OneHarvest family of companies has been supplying Australian consumers with fresh, healthy, fabulous-tasting fruit and vegetables from a range of sources across the country.

We employ up to 1000 people across Australia and supply a range of fresh produce to supermarkets and greengrocers around the country. These products include pre-packed salads and stir-fry vegetables, prepared deli salads, fresh chilled meals as well as avocadoes and B74 mangoes (marketed under the Calypso brand).

We are focused on excellence in customer service and quality and take pride in being one of the most advanced and innovative fresh produce companies in Australia.

Source: this is an extract from the company's own website.

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