Factory Supervisor: Lead Safety, Quality & Delivery

Parratech Group; Blacktown; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant

Job summary

Parratech is seeking a Factory Supervisor to lead the safe, reliable and efficient day-to-day operation of manufacturing, warehousing, transport and logistics activities across Australia and New Zealand. You will coordinate people, materials, plant and delivery priorities to meet safety, quality, output and customer-service targets.

The role requires frontline leadership, escalation of risks, and implementation of management plans while upholding Parratech values of grit, real talk, doing it

Responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership that makes health and safety, quality and environmental responsibility integral to daily operations.
• Ensure compliance with the Parratech health and safety system, regulations and approved codes of practice applying in the relevant state or territory.
• Ensure hazards and risks are identified, controls are implemented using the hierarchy of controls, workers are consulted, and required training, licences and competency verifications are maintained.
• Maintain effective safe work procedures, permits, plant risk assessments, isolation systems, incident notification, emergency response and contractor management arrangements.
• Ensure plant, structures, vehicles and equipment are fit for purpose, registered or licensed where required, maintained, inspected and operated by competent personnel.
• Review the approved production schedule and translate it into clear shift tasks, labour assignments and material priorities.
• Conduct pre-start meetings, confirm resource readiness and communicate safety, quality, output and delivery expectations.
• Monitor work in progress and respond to breakdowns, shortages, quality issues and competing priorities, escalating constraints that threaten delivery timeframes.
• Work with engineering, quality and planning personnel to implement approved changes and production-readiness actions.
• Sequence deliveries and loads in line with the approved plan, production completion, site access, customer priorities and delivery windows.
• Apply relevant Chain of Responsibility controls under the Heavy Vehicle National Law, or corresponding jurisdictional road transport requirements, and Escalate actual or potential breaches immediately.
• Verify that loads are correctly packaged, restrained, mass-compliant, dimension-compliant and documented before release.
• Ensure work is completed to approved specifications, inspection requirements, standard work and Parratech's quality system.
• Contain defects, rework, damage and customer-impacting issues; support root-cause analysis and implement assigned corrective actions.
• Identify improvement opportunities, provide operational input and implement approved changes under the direction of management.
• Set clear daily expectations, allocate work and monitor attendance, conduct, productivity and compliance.
• Confirm shift coverage and skills availability and promptly escalates gaps requiring overtime, labour hire or recruitment approval.
• Provide on-the-job coaching, constructive feedback and documented input to formal performance and development processes.
• Promote respectful communication, consultation, teamwork and early resolution of workplace issues.

Job description

Parratech is seeking a Factory Supervisor to lead the safe, reliable and efficient day-to-day operation of manufacturing, warehousing, transport and logistics activities across Australia and New Zealand. You will coordinate people, materials, plant and delivery priorities to meet safety, quality, output and customer-service targets.

The role requires frontline leadership, escalation of risks, and implementation of management plans while upholding Parratech values of grit, real talk, doing it