Manufacturing Manager

Full Time
  • May 16, 2026
  • Employment Info

    JOBĀ  SUMMARY

    The manufacturing Manager role offers the chance to lead the entire production function at our manufacturing facility and play a key part on the senior site leadership team.

    You’ll drive the site’s improvement agenda, build capability across your team, and shape a high performing culture.

    With full ownership of manufacturing performance, you’ll lead change, optimise resources, and lift the site toward World Class standards. It’s an opportunity to make a meaningful impact, develop strong leaders, and influence major operational decisions across the business.

     

     

    Specifically you will

    • Drive operational performance by leading site structure, OPx delivery, culture, continuous improvement initiatives, and cross‑functional projects.
    • Ensure compliance and certification readiness across OH&S, environmental standards, GMP, BRC audit requirements, and broader quality systems.
    • Lead and develop manufacturing teams, fostering a high‑performance culture focused on safety, quality, productivity, and accountability.
    • Optimise resources and processes through labour cost control, inventory and procurement management, production planning, waste minimisation, and SAP workflow accuracy.
    • Maintain operational reliability via preventive maintenance, rapid breakdown response, SCADA monitoring, and coordination of logistics and supply chain activities.

     

     

    About You

    For this role to be a success you will be an engaging people leader with a background in the food manufacturing industry; an understanding of Plant Baking would be advantageous but more so the ability to lead from the front is essential.

    Skillsets, qualifications and experience we are looking for include:

    • Manufacturing leadership experience with demonstrated experience in driving results (versus production targets, waste reduction, cost reduction, DIFOT)
    • An understanding of end-to-end value chain and the ability to identify and leverage opportunities to transform and improve
    • Experience in leading through others to uplift capability across the site
    • Prior experience in Industrial / Plant baking would be advantageous but in the absence of a willingness to learn is essential

     

     

     

     

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