Automation and Optimisation Manager Moorebank
1 month ago
**About Woolworths Group**
Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.
- Lead the overall automation performance for Woolworth’s Group's new state of the art operation
- High profile, greenfield opportunity with working with cutting-edge automation technology
**About Us**
Construction is now well underway for our new Moorebank NDC (MoNDC). Located in Moorebank NSW, MoNDC is the latest distribution centre being added to the Primary Connect Network. The 44,900 sqm facility - equivalent to almost three times the size of the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). This will strengthen Primary Connect’s national supply chain and service more than 1,000 Woolworths Supermarkets across Australia with more than 12,000 product lines.
**About the opportunity**
As a vital member of the Moorebank leadership team, your role will be instrumental in ensuring the safe and efficient operation of a large scale, fast paced, state of the art automated order processing facility. With end-to-end responsibility including functionality, reliability, system performance and improvement, you will lead a team of technical specialists and vendor partners to cultivate a culture of teamwork, inclusion and high performance. This will empower your team to contribute their best and make a meaningful impact on our business and our customers.
**You’ll demonstrate your impact by**
- Ensuring that automation (storage and order processing equipment) is performing in line with functional outcomes, capabilities, and throughput/capacity requirements, including developing system performance metrics.
- Participating in system testing, DILOS, operational readiness, and commissioning activities.
- Identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives through the leadership of supplier relationships, improved operational practices, and, where appropriate, business process changes that enhance safety, customer satisfaction, and efficiency.
- Implementing ongoing planning and budgeting processes to ensure the automation equipment continues to meet the business’s required throughput, efficiency, capacity, and functional outcomes year on year.
- Leading a team of technical specialists, and guiding the operations team in the optimal setup and technical aspects the operational
- Liaising with internal and external technical stakeholders in the ongoing optimisation and enhancement of the processing equipment, control systems and system functionality.
- Developing and documenting complex work instructions, SOPs, and processes.
**About you**
- Extensive experience in a technical leadership role, working with order processing, and or manufacturing processes, and a track record of driving results and outcomes across areas such as functional performance, production and productivity rates, throughput and capacity maximisation, reliability and uptime.
- Strong analytical, planning, and problem-solving capabilities with advanced knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets and modelling.
- Deep understanding of process, material flows, optimisation and enhancement of processing equipment and technical processes, cause-and-effect, and system strategy
- A thorough understanding of safety protocols and risk management, with a commitment to ensuring that safety is embedded in all aspects of operations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with cross-functional teams.
- A track record of driving continuous improvement and delivering results in a complex, matrix environment.
- Experience in service performance analysis, service provider/vendor management and management of a team of technical staff.
- Exposure to automation systems and suppliers, such as Vanderlande, Dematic, Schaeffer, Swisslog, Knapp, or Witron, would be highly regarded.
- Prior experience in a greenfield start-up facility would be highly regarded.
**Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.
We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
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