Packaging Shift Lead — Safety, Quality & Efficiency

Pact Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pact Group is seeking a Production Supervisor for its Power Plastics operation in Kings Park. The role leads a production team, ensures safe and efficient manufacturing of packaging, and upholds site compliance with Pact best practices.

The supervisor drives line performance, coordinates with planning, and oversees equipment, quality checks, and TPM to meet targets and product specs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in a plastic manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of packaging production processes and equipment.
• Proven people leadership and change-management skills.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and safety focus.
• Effective communication and time-management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Follow training procedures recorded in training records.
• Ensure staff follow safe working practices and safety instructions.
• Maintain good housekeeping at all times.
• Control material in/out with appropriate paperwork.
• Allocate and supervise staff to meet production targets.
• Adhere to schedules or assist planning to resolve issues.
• Approve leave rostering and clock cards in Kronos.
• Supervise machine adjustments and line changeovers.
• Perform routine quality, guard, and TPM checks.
• Record breakdowns and downtime to drive reliability improvements.
• Ensure QC reports, certifications, non-conformances, safety actions are closed.
• Meet product specifications and lead daily tier meetings.
• Participate in RCCA investigations as required.
• Follow reliability escalation and raise maintenance requests in MEX or CMMS.
• Escalate HR issues to your immediate line manager.

Skills

People leadership

Safety compliance

Manufacturing processes

Equipment maintenance

Kronos

CMMS

Quality control

Communication

Time management

Tools

Kronos

CMMS

Job description

Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

About this opportunity

Supporting the Production Co-Ordinator – Power Plastics, Kings Park, the Supervisor safely leads and manages the production team and ensures that the site’s processes are compliant with PACT Group best practice procedures.

The Supervisor is responsible for overall supervision and direction of production team in the designated area. The responsibility includes the safe and efficient production of packaging, the safe and efficient running of plant and equipment and welfare for all employees on the shift.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Responsibility to follow the procedures that he or she has been trained against as recorded in their training record.
• Responsibility to ensure all staff adopt safe working practices and follow company safety instructions.
• Ensure that good housekeeping practices are always maintained and adhered to.
• Control of material in and out of facility including completion of appropriate paperwork.
• Responsible for allocation of and supervision of staff in your area to ensure production is meeting targets.
• Responsible to ensure schedules are adhered to or manage with planning concerns that prevent adherence to plan.
• Responsible for controlling leave rostering approval process.
• Responsible for approving Kronos and ensuring that clock cards are accurate and completed in a timely manner.
• Supervise and participate in machine adjustments including line change over when necessary.
• Ensure routine generated machine checks, quality checks, guard checks, TPM are completed.
• Ensure that all breakdowns and down time are recorded accurately so to drive the Reliability improvements.
• Ensure the accuracy and completion of: Quality Control Reports, Certifications, Non-Conformance, Safety/Hazard reporting and actions are followed up and closed out in a timely manner for your area.
• Ensure all product specifications are met and adhered to.
• Lead and participate in daily tier communication meetings with planning and manufacturing teams.
• Participate in RCCA investigations as required.
• Follow Reliability escalation procedure and raise maintenance work requests in MEX system, or site based CMMS.
• Escalate HR issues to your immediate line manager.

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• 5+ years’ experience in a Plastic industrial environment.
• Knowledge of the process for the manufacture of packaging including an understanding of the equipment is preferred
• Proven people leadership and change management experience with a collaborative and enabling approach.
• Strong mechanical aptitude.
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Time Management Skills.

Additional Information

About us

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.

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