General Manager Operations

7 days ago


Sydney, Australia Opal. Full time

**Discover Opal.**

As part of the Nippon Paper Group, Opal is one of Australasia’s leading packaging and paper companies. We manufacture goods that you see, touch and use every day and our customer base includes some of the biggest names in FMCG, Retail and Fresh Produce.

We stand for innovation, smart solutions and sustainability and this is an exciting time to join us as we build our own unique culture fuelled by confidence, energy and passion.

**Discover the Opportunity**....

Due to an internal promotion at our B9 Botany Paper Mill, we are excited to be able to offer an opportunity to join our Opal Paper & Recycling business as the General Manager Operations for our Botany site in Sydney, NSW.

At our state-of-the-art recycling and paper manufacturing facility you will be responsible for executing the business strategy for this key operation within a significant organisational division. Ensuring we continue to enhance Opal’s position as market leader in the paper and packaging sector in ANZ.

Reporting to the Group General Manager Paper & Recycling, the key priority for this role is to deliver efficient operational performance in a cost effective and safe manner. You will need outstanding internal and external stakeholder relations, balanced with striving for continually improving operational standards and efficiencies, to achieve these objectives. At the centre of this will be best practice safety and people management practices and the ability to manage through complex and challenging change processes.

You will contribute to the success of Opal by:

- Providing operational leadership and delivering value and operational performance
- Being focused on the customer and how we can achieve innovation and support product development to meet future customer expectations and market demands
- Leading with values, integrity, inclusion and professionalism, and inspiring others to do the same
- Putting safety at the centre of everything we do

**Discover Yourself.**

We can offer a varied career journey with experiential learning gained from cross-functional and lateral moves. We embrace diversity in all its forms, and we look for curious individuals who thrive in an environment of change.

Specifically for this role, we expect you will have;
- Operations leadership experience within the paper manufacturing industry, including P&L ownership and management
- Experience of leading teams through complex change programs
- Proven experience in driving operational performance
- Deep analytical capability and ability to convert data and information to strategic priorities
- Demonstrated the ability to have tough conversations and respectfully challenge thinking to gain new answers
- Led teams in a unionised environment and experience managing various Enterprise Agreements

**Discover what we can offer you.**
- A fantastic opportunity to work on a very modern paper machine with an enthusiastic team that are working towards a common goal of producing safe, sustainable tonnes
- Working in conjunction with the Valmet maintenance team, we have topped the Valmet benchmarking survey in speed for the last couple of years
- A vision built on Opal’s Manufacturing Excellence Program has proven vital in uniting the two teams and ensuring common objectives are maintained
- It is very rare that you get the chance to work in a paper mill situated just a few kilometres from such a popular tourist destination as Sydney’s Eastern beaches

For more information please contact Annik Pearson on +61 3 9730 5451 or jump right in by sending us your CV.

**Our Opal Values**

**Thinking packaging. Discover Opal.



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