Fresh Produce Production Lead - Scale & Optimize

Earth Markets; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Earth Markets at Rocklea Markets, Brisbane QLD, is seeking a hands-on Production Team Leader to oversee our fresh fruit and vegetable tray production. The role focuses on leading the production team, planning schedules, forecasting demand, and ensuring quality, efficiency and cost control in a fast-paced environment.

You will drive production planning, manage labour, purchase inputs, and implement process improvements while maintaining strict food safety standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in fresh produce or food manufacturing
• Experience leading production teams
• Strong planning and scheduling capability
• Experience with quality control and food safety
• Purchasing, inventory management
• Strong numerical and analytical ability
• Forecasting or demand-planning experience
• Hands-on leadership style

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and manage the fresh produce production team
• Plan daily and weekly production schedules based on forecast demand and store requirements
• Interpret historical and current sales data to forecast future sales and production requirements
• Use dynamic pricing, sales trends, promotional activity, seasonality and other demand indicators to adjust production forecasts
• Translate sales forecasts into practical production, labour and purchasing requirements
• Ensure production targets are achieved efficiently and on time
• Manage labour allocation, workflow and team productivity
• Purchase and coordinate fruit, vegetables, packaging and other production requirements
• Maintain strong quality control across incoming produce and finished products
• Ensure products meet specifications for quality, presentation, weight and freshness
• Minimise waste, overproduction, stock-outs and unnecessary production costs
• Monitor production yields, labour efficiency, output and wasteIdentify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements
• Maintain appropriate food safety, hygiene, cleaning and workplace safety standards
• Coordinate with our warehouse, buying and store teams to ensure consistent supply
• Develop systems and processes that allow the production operation to scale as Earth Markets grows

Skills

Fresh produce experience

Team leadership

Production planning

Quality control

Purchasing/inventory

Data interpretation

Forecasting/demand planning

Labour management

Process improvement

Job description

Earth Markets at Rocklea Markets, Brisbane QLD, is seeking a hands-on Production Team Leader to oversee our fresh fruit and vegetable tray production. The role focuses on leading the production team, planning schedules, forecasting demand, and ensuring quality, efficiency and cost control in a fast-paced environment.

You will drive production planning, manage labour, purchase inputs, and implement process improvements while maintaining strict food safety standards.