Night Shift Production Manager

Inghams Chickens; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-the-job training

Fitness Passport

Product discounts

Travel discounts

Career development

Health & safety focus

ASX-listed company

Job summary

Inghams Chickens in Murarrie is seeking an experienced Night Shift Production Manager to lead the Primary Processing team during overnight operations.

This senior on-site role runs roughly 10:00pm–7:00am, coordinating production, dispatch, maintenance, cleaning and QA to deliver safe, efficient and compliant results each day. You will mentor night teams, drive KPIs, and ensure food safety and animal welfare standards are upheld.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership within production/manufacturing/FMCG or similarly complex operations
• Experience leading large teams and multiple functions/workstreams
• Strong understanding of production performance, labour management and KPIs
• Proven ability to lead safely in a regulated environment
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to collaborate across Production, Maintenance, Quality and other teams
• Hands-on and visible leadership with focus on developing people
• Strong communication, planning and organisational skills
• Willingness to work permanent night shift hours (10:00pm–7:00am)

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee all night shift operations at the Murarrie site
• Manage safe shutdown of plant operations around 11:00pm
• Oversee night dispatch operations to meet service requirements
• Coordinate overnight maintenance to maximise plant reliability
• Oversee cleaning and pre-operational activities per food safety standards
• Lead start-up of production around 3:00am
• Drive KPIs across labour, yield, throughput and quality
• Maintain high standards for people safety and animal welfare
• Collaborate with multiple site functions to resolve issues and minimise disruption
• Coach and develop night shift teams with clear accountability
• Ensure smooth handovers between shifts and communicate priorities
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce waste

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

KPIs

Safety leadership

Problem-solving

Stakeholder collaboration

Hands-on leadership

Communication

Planning

Night shift

Job description

We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years.

A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together.

Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Night Shift Production Manager to join our Primary Processing team at Murarrie.

This is a key site leadership role with end-to-end responsibility for our overnight operations. Working approximately 10:00pm to 7:00am, you’ll be the senior operational leader on site, overseeing the transition from afternoon shift through shutdown, cleaning and pre-operational activities, before leading the successful start-up of production from approximately 3:00am.

You’ll bring together production, dispatch, maintenance, cleaning and support functions to ensure the site operates safely, efficiently and is set up for success each day. With accountability spanning people safety, food safety, animal welfare, labour, yield and operational performance, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact across one of our major Primary Processing facilities.

If you thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, enjoy leading through complexity and know how to bring different teams together around a common goal, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and oversee all night shift operations across the Murarrie Primary Processing site
• Manage the safe and effective shutdown of plant operations from approximately 11:00pm
• Oversee night-time dispatch operations and ensure service and operational requirements are achieved
• Coordinate maintenance activities during the overnight window to maximise plant reliability and readiness
• Oversee cleaning and pre-operational activities, ensuring required food safety, hygiene and compliance standards are achieved
• Lead plant start-up from approximately 3:00am, ensuring production is ready to operate safely and efficiently
• Drive performance across labour, yield, throughput, quality and operational KPIs
• Maintain strong standards across people safety, food safety and animal welfare
• Work closely with Production, Maintenance, Cleaning, Quality, Dispatch and other site functions to resolve issues and minimise operational disruption
• Lead, coach and develop night shift teams, creating clear accountability and a positive, high-performance culture
• Provide effective handovers between shifts and ensure issues, priorities and actions are clearly communicated
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste and strengthen overall site performance

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrated leadership experience within a production, manufacturing, FMCG or similarly complex operational environment
• Experience leading large teams and multiple operational functions or workstreams
• Strong understanding of production performance, labour management and operational KPIs
• A proven ability to lead safely and maintain high standards in a regulated environment
• Strong problem-solving skills with the confidence to make sound decisions in a fast-moving operation
• The ability to build strong relationships and work effectively across Production, Maintenance, Quality and other support functions
• A hands-on and visible leadership style with a genuine commitment to developing people
• Strong communication, planning and organisational skills
• Flexibility and commitment to working permanent night shift hours, approximately 10:00pm-7:00am

What we’ll offer you:

• On-the-job training and support to set you up for success
• Access to Fitness Passport that gives you affordable access to gyms, pools and fitness facilities nationwide
• Employee benefits including product discounts and travel discounts
• Genuine opportunities to develop your career, supported by our performance and succession programs.
• The health, safety, and wellbeing of our people is our highest priority
• ASX-listed company with operations across Australia and New Zealand

We’re looking for people who arecurious, caring, courageous and committed to join us; people who want to contribute their best work every single dayand continue delivering deliciously good food that’s Always Good!

Inghams values diverse experiences. If your skills align with some but not all of the listed requirements, we encourage you to still apply and explore the opportunity to join our team.