Regional Operations Manager - Parramatta, Australia - Blackbook Executive

Blackbook Executive

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Parramatta, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Clear career path on offer

Step into your first multisite, senior operations role
Strategic & Commercial Role

Our Client

Our client is currently looking to recruit a Regional Operations Manager that will oversee three large manufacturing plants across two states incorporating the operation from planning, production, engineering, safety, quality, warehouse & logistics.

This role is a strategic hire to help develop & implement world class manufacturing systems and processes, oversee and manage strategic capital investment and set the business up for significant growth over the coming 5 years.

The Role

Reporting to the COO your responsibilities will be:

Develop and implement best in class manufacturing systems and provide training, support and ensuring compliance to systems.
Creation of work instructions and training matrix systems, leading training programs and building highly capable leadership teams.
Support and lead an operationsbased teams across production, maintenance and engineering, working with planning, warehouse & logistics, quality & safety to achieve/exceed KPI's and deliver on productivity targets and operational improvement.
Educate, coach, and facilitate operational expectations, lead change initiatives through the leadership team to deliver on all operational KPIs.
Develop, implement, and maintain operations systems, training programs, ensuring staff structures and labour plans are optimised and meet the needs of the business.
Develop and implement improvement plans for the operation, encompassing all functions including targeted and measurable KPI's.
Develop, Implement, Manage, and report on metrics (KPI's) as well as instilling understanding of metrics across the group to develop a performancebased culture.
Lead and coach on continuous improvement initiatives in conjunction with the leadership group, to reduce cost and waste, improve productivity and quality.
Lead and ensure the successful delivery of capital programs, managing internal and external stakeholders.
Accountable for driving a Safety and Quality first culture across operations.
Support the group R&D and Quality team to deliver best in class innovation and renovation.

Your Background
To be successful in this role you will have the below experience and competencies:

Operations leadership experience, responsible for leading manufacturing teams in a large & complex food manufacturing environment.
Proven experience in developing and building strong leadership groups within a manufacturing plant leading to positive change.
Must have the ability and track record of being able to see the bigger picture and step away from the day to day to deliver the longerterm strategic vision.
Experience working with engineering and being either involved from an Operations perspective or as an engineering perspective on the delivery of reliability and capital initiatives.
Strong continuous improvement background with a good grasp of sophisticated continuous improvement methodologies such as LEAN / Six Sigma and 5Y problemsolving tools.
Good commercial acumen, able to understand and manage finances with the ability to identify the key cost drivers in a fastpaced food plant.
Collaborative in their style, inclusive in making decisions.
Strong communication, coaching, consultation and negotiation skills with an ability to engage and influence internal stakeholders.
Tertiary qualification in a related field will be well regarded.

What's On Offer
For more information please contact Ricky Phare at Blackbook Executive on