Deputy Operations Manager

4 weeks ago

Burpengary, Australia ClearCompany Full time

The Company

We’re currently partnering with a well-established market leading food manufacturing business in search of a dynamic Deputy Operations Manager. This is a key appointment for someone ready to take on a leadership challenge and play a critical role in driving performance, efficiency, and operational excellence.

You’ll be the right hand to the Operations Manager, stepping in to lead day-to-day operations across production, quality, logistics management, and production planning. This role is ideal for a strong people leader with a background in food/FMCG who thrives in fast-paced environments.

The Role

Reporting to the Operations Manager, your role will be responsible for:

- Lead and manage production teams to meet KPIs in safety, quality, output, and cost.
- Ensure all machinery maintenance and pre-start checks are completed and documented, in all areas of operations. This includes machinery such as tractors, loaders, grinders, terex screen, terminal trucks, forklifts and related plant assets.
- Create and manage production plan, delivery plan and production process.
- Collaborating with the inventory team to ensure timely procurement of production components and raw materials.
- Document and provide reports of forecasted production and delivery dates.
- Lead, motivate, and engage teams across manufacturing, maintenance/engineering, and logistics to achieve individual, team, and site objectives.
- Foster a culture of business improvement to ensure continuous results and performance enhancement.
- Promote a safety-first culture across the site, ensuring that WH&S processes are in place, including induction, training, and safety programs.
- Drive excellence in safety performance, risk awareness, and compliance with safety regulations.
- Develop, track, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) including labour optimization, overtime, OEE, throughput rates, and inventory.

Your Background

In order to be successful in this role you will have:

- Minimum 5 years of operations leadership experience, responsible for leading manufacturing and logistics teams for a food manufacturing business.
- Proven experience in manufacturing and logistics operations management experience, specifically in developing and building high performing groups in a safe manner.
- Knowledge of concepts and methodologies relating to inventory management.
- Thorough understanding of production planning within a food manufacturing environment.
- Strong continuous improvement background with a good grasp of sophisticated continuous improvement methodologies such as LEAN / Six Sigma and 5Y problem-solving tools.
- Good commercial acumen, able to understand and manage finances with the ability to identify the key cost drivers in a fast-paced food plant.
- Strong communication, coaching, consultation and negotiation skills with an ability to engage and influence internal stakeholders.

What’s On Offer

In return you will be given the opportunity to join an exciting & a clear market leading organisation where you can play a key role in their evolution and growth as a business. This is a role that will require you to use your operational, commercial, and leadership skills positioning you to move into an executive level role in the future. There’s also a competitive salary package on offer, with the potential for future growth and development working with a large manufacturing business.

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

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