Operations Manager Vic

Key leadership role supporting the businesses growth agenda
- Capable, engaged team across VIC
- Strong career growth prospects

**About the role**:
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Operations Manager to lead B&D manufacturing across VIC, based at our B&D site in Kilsyth. Managing a large team, you’ll focus on driving performance across all areas including safety & sustainability, quality, production, maintenance, and logistics.

You’ll be engaging, mentoring and empowering your team to work cohesively and will ensure they achieve results by giving them a clear vision of business objectives. Your key responsibilities will include:

- Focusing and inspiring your team on how we can deliver ongoing benefit to the B&D business
- Supporting team activities to improve output, quality and safety performance
- Monitoring and improving performance by providing structure, direction and KPI's on relevant measures
- Managing operational costs and budgets to ensure value and benefit to the business
- Initiating, designing and implementing initiatives that step-change the performance of the VIC business
- Driving a Continuous Improvement agenda using LEAN principles

**Skills & Experience**:
This is a crucial role, so you’ll need the confidence to work autonomously and a strong commercial acumen and customer focus to succeed. As an excellent influencer and negotiator, you’ll build rapport with all levels of stakeholders and have great change management skills. This role could suit an experienced Operations Manager or a Production/Manufacturing Manager looking for the next step in their career. Other key skills and experience include.
- Collaborative leadership experience within engineering, manufacturing, or supply chain
- Experience with Industrial Relations and negotiating EA’s
- Solid experience in safety and quality
- Experience driving Continuous Improvement projects following LEAN principles
- Experience with financial reporting and managing budgets including cost savings

In return you will be offered a highly attractive salary package including performance incentives. You’ll gain the opportunity to develop your career with an organisation that can offer you a proven and realistic career path.

**Benefits**:

- Give back to your community by using your “Supporting the Community” action day (1 day per year)
- Enjoy access to the DuluxGroup product ranges at a discounted rate
- The opportunity to work flexibly - we endeavor to work with our people to allow them to bring their
- For parents - a Parental Leave package of 20 weeks paid leave for the primary carer in
- Enjoy true recognition through our various employee award schemes
- Access to learning and development opportunities to support your growth and development across multiple business units and locations

**About DuluxGroup**

DuluxGroup is a leading marketer and manufacturer of premium branded products.

We employ approximately 4,000 people in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South-East Asia, China and the United Kingdom.

DuluxGroup is made up of six main business areas comprising of 50 well recognised brands, this opportunity sits current within our B&D Group** **business.

**B&D Garage Doors and Openers**

**B&D** is a leading Australian and New Zealand manufacturer and marketer of premium branded garage doors and automatic openers for residential and commercial use. The B&D Roll-A-Door has been named as one of Australia’s most successful innovations.

**Culture**

At DuluxGroup, we are united by a shared set of values and behaviours that guide the way we work. We offer a supportive and collaborative workplace that values a diversity of perspective. We strive for an innovative, flexible and inclusive workplace where employees can perform at their best.

DuluxGroup welcomes qualified applicants, regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, age or disability. **Talent is our only criteria**. Let us know if you need any special accommodations to participate fully in the recruitment process.