Plant Manager

We are looking for an experienced Plant Manager to lead our Moorabbin manufacturing site. Reporting to the General Manager Food Health & Personal Care you will be responsible for driving performance across safety quality service cost people and operational excellence.

This is a hands-on leadership role where youll inspire high-performing teams build a strong site culture and deliver continuous improvement initiatives that enhance productivity reliability and customer outcomes.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Lead a safety-first culture and ensuring compliance with all health safety quality and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver strong operational performance across safety quality service productivity and cost targets.
• Drive DIFOT performance through effective production planning inventory management and S&OP execution.
• Improve plant reliability efficiency and uptime through TPM preventative maintenance and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage site financial performance including budgets forecasting and cost centre accountability.
• Identifying and delivering sustainable cost reduction and capital investment opportunities to support long-term growth.
• Build coach and develop high-performing teams while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Lead operational and cultural transformation through data-driven decision-making Lean methodologies and cross-functional collaboration.

About you

Youre an experienced manufacturing leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and knows how to bring out the best in people processes and performance.

To be successful in this role youll bring:

• Proven leadership experience in FMCG plastic packaging or other high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Expertise in Lean Manufacturing TPM and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong commercial acumen including budget and cost centre accountability.
• The ability to analyse data solve problems and make informed business decisions.
• Experience leading Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.
• Demonstrated success delivering operational improvements capital projects and business transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A commitment to safety quality and operational excellence.
• Degree or Diploma in Engineering Manufacturing Operations or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in a senior manufacturing leadership role.
• Proven success leading Lean TPM or Operational Excellence programs.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and sustainable performance improvements.

Qualifications :

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering Manufacturing Operations or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in a senior manufacturing leadership role.
• Proven success leading Lean TPM or Operational Excellence programs.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and sustainable performance improvements.

Additional Information :

About us

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging reuse and recycling solutions. Its a future-driven group commitment designed to create lasting value.

Were the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the regions biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6000 team members operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries and our customers include some of the worlds largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions weve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan. 

For us its about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business to give back to the environment and to enrich peoples lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

Thats our future Pact. Lets lead the way together.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time