About the Company

This well-established and growing food manufacturing business is entering an exciting period of transformation and investment. With a strong market presence and a focus on innovation, the business is committed to driving operational excellence and building a high-performance culture. As part of this evolution, an opportunity has emerged for a dynamic Site Operations Manager to take ownership of all on-site functions and play a key leadership role in scaling operations.

About the Role

Reporting to the General Manager – Operations, this position will see you leading the site’s end-to-end operations including manufacturing, maintenance, engineering, warehousing, dispatch, safety, and sustainability. You’ll be responsible for optimising site performance, building team capability, and ensuring operations are future-fit to meet increased production and installation demands.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing leadership across key operational areas to deliver on productivity, quality, and efficiency targets.
• Building high-performing, cross-functional teams across production, maintenance, quality and warehousing functions.
• Embedding a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the site.
• Promoting a strong safety-first mindset, ensuring compliance with WH&S processes, training, and induction programs.
• Monitoring and improving performance metrics such as OEE, labour utilisation, right first time quality, inventory accuracy, and site throughput.

About You

You’re a commercially astute, people-first leader who brings strong experience within fast-paced food or FMCG manufacturing environments. You enjoy working close to the operation and thrive in roles where you can influence culture, performance, and continuous improvement.
To be successful in this role, you’ll bring:

• Proven leadership experience in an Operations, Site or Senior Manufacturing management role within food, beverage, or FMCG manufacturing.
• Engineering qualifications or equivalent senior-level operational experience.
• A successful track record in building, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong continuous improvement knowledge with the ability to implement tools to deliver improvements.
• A collaborative communication style with the ability to influence stakeholders and align cross-functional teams.
• Strong commercial understanding, with the ability to identify cost drivers and optimise operational spend.

What’s on Offer

This is a rare opportunity to lead one of the most complex facilities across a national organisation. You’ll be supported by a progressive executive team, given the autonomy to shape your site, and positioned to step into broader leadership roles in the future.

Click Apply now, or for more information, reach out to Chade Cupit-Love on [email protected] for more details.