Kill Floor Foreperson

Join a heavily investing manufacturing business with a strong reputation
- Based in the Riverina region - NSW
- Competitive salary and benefits on offer

**The Company**

Our client is a leading meat manufacturer with a trusted brand, creating high quality products loved by Australians for years. They have built a strong reputation for their premium products which has contributed to their success, enabling them to continuously invest and grow. After a recent restructure, our client is now seeking a passionate Kill Floor Forepersons and Boning Room Forepersons, who will be based in their site located in Leeton, NSW.

**The Role**

Reporting to either the Kill Floor or Boning Room Supervisor, your responsibilities will include;
- Effectively manage a team consisting of approximately 100 across operations, with a focus on continued development across people to build a strong team consistence with growth across the site.
- Drive a safety first culture and promote staff to identify and implement OH&S improvements.
- Educate, coach, engage and develop to create high performing team to achieve/exceed KPI’s.
- Meet all targets across employee engagement, Yield, safety, quality and any other KPI’s set by the Manufacturing Manager on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
- Contribute to plant improvement initiatives through active leadership and implementation of LEAN and CI methodologies.
- Work cohesively with other business units including Engineering & Maintenance, Quality and Warehousing to develop and implement strategies to meet common goals across plant performances.
- Ensure all operational reports are reported accurately and in a timely and professional manner.

**Your Background**

To be successful in this role, you will have the following experience:

- Experience in a similar production leadership role, ideally within the meat manufacturing industry.
- A strong leadership background and skillset, with an ability to coach and develop team leaders/supervisors and operators to deliver excellent results.
- Experience with driving and monitoring key performance measures focusing on yield analysis, labour costs and waste.
- Proven experience in LEAN manufacturing and delivering change as well as implementing continuous improvement.
- Experience with implementing and monitoring performance of the quality, safety and production team, including the setting measurement of team objectives and KPI’s.
- A hands-on leader with a can-do attitude.
- Strong communication, coaching, consultation, and negotiation skills with an ability to engage and influence stakeholders as well as being able to connect with people at different levels.

**What's on Offer**

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If you would like to discuss this opportunity further you can contact Maurice Tranchina at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7413.