Plant Manager (Food)

Charterhouse Partnership; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Charterhouse Partnership seeks a Plant Manager for its confectionery manufacturing facility located in Campbellfield, Melbourne. The role directs production and supply chain activities to meet short- and long-term goals while upholding safety, quality, and regulatory standards.

The site leader coordinates with HR, Finance, and regional teams to ensure robust operations and continuous improvement. You will represent the site to customers and authorities, oversee audits, and drive alignment across

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of large production teams.
• Strong ability to align production with QA, EH&S and customer requirements.
• Experience driving continuous improvement and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Direct and coordinate all production and supply chain activities to meet targets.
• Collaborate with HR to ensure staffing and team welfare.
• Coordinate with Finance to monitor factory performance against budgets.
• Represent site during customer visits or regulatory inspections.
• Lead external audits and liaise with regional managers as needed.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Food Science or equivalent

Job description

Plant Manager for a Global Confectionary Manufacturer-Based in Campbellfield, Melbourne

Within the global Production & Supply Chain and country strategy and guidelines, the Plant Manager directs, plans, organises, develops & controls all activities of the production & supply chain function in order to meet short, medium and long term production & supply chain goals, whilst complying with Safety, Quality Assurance and customer requirements, rules, laws and regulations. The Plant Manager is also committed to our Food Safety and Regulatory requirement within the organisation.

Role

• - Daily interaction with the entire plant management team to ensure the operational activities remain well balanced between delivery targets, QA targets, EH&S targets
• - Continuous interaction with local HR Manager to make sure the team is correctly manned, the team spirit in the factory is safeguarded, the welfare of the employees is guaranteed and new recruits are getting on board on time and well prepared.
• -Continuous interaction with local Finance Manager to ensure the factory performance is also in line with the financial targets. Next, ensuring that the local finance and teams are working closely together to monitor the factory in the most accurate way.
• - During factory visits, representing to receive the customers or authorities as the site responsible.
• -Take the factory lead for any external audit or inspection that could take place, announced or not announced and coordinate with the local team, Operations Director OSCO and relevant regional managers

Experience

• - Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Food Science or equivalent.
• -15+ years of experience in a production environment including food manufacturing methods, process improvement program and procedures