Manufacturing Operations Specialist

5 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Six Degrees Executive Full time
About the Company
A leading consumer goods manufacturing business with multiple sites around Melbourne, boasting strong relationships with large business customers and major retailers. With significant growth over the last five years, the company has created opportunities for professionals to expand their roles and take on new challenges.

About the Role
The Technical Operations Lead is responsible for translating business strategy into operations, combining process/industrial engineering and production supervision. This role leads a small group of production team leaders in a 24/7 plant with multiple shifts, ensuring safe and efficient interactions between operators and machinery while maximizing quality using engineering background and CI tools like lean. The position is on a development pathway towards an Operations Manager role as a succession plan, seeking someone with aspirations to run manufacturing operations in the future.

About You
You're an engineer in the manufacturing sector with aspirations to run operations, possessing a solid grasp of continuous improvement tools and frameworks such as lean:
  • Engineering degree (process/chemical or mechanical)
  • Experience in production-focused engineering roles (process engineer, industrial/production/manufacturing engineer)
  • Experience utilizing lean tools (or similar) to improve manufacturing efficiency
  • Continuous manufacturing process experience (such as FMCG, packaging, pulp and paper, chemical)
  • Supervisory experience would be an advantage (but not a prerequisite)

Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity for an aspirational manufacturing engineer to gain a genuine development plan towards operations leadership, applying engineering skills while developing leadership capability with support from established leaders. The role offers a rare staged path towards people leadership, rather than being dropped into a challenging situation. The business provides a great size, balancing opportunities and investment like a larger company, with the culture and breadth of responsibility that comes with a smaller one.

How to Apply
Click on the APPLY button or contact Scott Logan at scottl@sde.com.au or on 0483 948 362

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