Production Shift Manager

BOC; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Linde is seeking a Production Shift Manager at Rocklea to lead a safety-critical production team in a major hazard facility. You will drive accountability, coach the team and ensure safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations while managing daily activities and performance against KPI targets.

Ideal candidates will have process plant experience, strong HSE capabilities, and a track record in leadership roles, with a focus on safety culture and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in a process plant, manufacturing, reliability or similar operational environment.
• Five years' experience in a leadership or technical role is ideal.
• Strong HSE capability, ideally within a Process Safety or Major Hazard Facility environment.
• Confident people leadership skills with the ability to coach teams and drive accountability.
• Ability to make informed decisions and own them.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production team to deliver safe, reliable and efficient plant operations.
• Coordinate daily activities to achieve KPI targets, customer commitments and business objectives.
• Support maintenance planning, shutdowns, restarts and equipment reliability activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, cost control, inventory and operational performance.
• Manage resources, plant costs and critical materials in line with budgets and priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Safety culture

Operational excellence

Coaching

Decision making

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

At Linde we identify ourselves with our products - either working for the technical or medical gases business. Being a company with a long tradition in the gases business, we not only care about our customers and high-quality products, but most importantly about our employees. While working with us, expect a safe workplace, high safety standards and a true commitment from our managers to safety.

About the role

Take the lead in a critical production environment where safety, reliability and strong operational leadership matter every day. As Production Shift Manager at Rocklea, you will provide strong, visible leadership to the production team, building accountability, developing capability and driving performance across a Major Hazard Facility.

What you will enjoy doing

You will enjoy leading, coaching and developing the Production team capabilities, and productivity. Setting clear expectations and proactively addressing performance.

Lead the production team to deliver safe, reliable and efficient plant operations.

Champion Process Safety and strengthen safety culture through visible, practical leadership.

Coordinate daily activities to achieve KPI targets, customer commitments and business objectives.

Build a high performance culture through clear accountabilities, regular feedback and consistent follow through.

Monitor plant performance, respond to operational issues and escalat risk promptly.

Support maintenance planning, shutdowns, restarts and equipment reliability activities.

Identify opportunities to improve reliability, cost control, inventory and operational performance.

Manage resources, plant costs and critical materials in line with approved budgets and site priorities.

What makes you great

Experience in a process plant, manufacturing, reliability or similar operational environment.

Ideally you will have five years' experience in a leadership or technical role.

Strong HSE capability, ideally within a Process Safety or Major Hazard Facility environment

Confident people leadership skills, with the ability to coach teams and drive accountability.

have the ability to have difficult conversations, manage performance and drive productivity.

You will have the ability to make an informed decision and own it.

Sound technical knowledge across plant operations, maintenance and control systems.

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make timely decisions under changing priorities.

Clear communication style and a collaborative approach to working with stakeholders.

Relevant engineering qualifications in Chemical, Mechanical, Instrumentation or a related discipline.

Experience using business, maintenance and safety management systems.

Why you will love working for us

You will lead meaningful work at a safety-critical site that supports essential industries.

You will have the opportunity to make a visible impact on plant reliability, team capability and operational performance.

You will work with experienced teams who value safety, accountability and practical problem solving.

You will be supported to keep developing your technical and leadership capability.

You will join a global organisation where your contribution helps deliver reliable supply to customers every day.

About us

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you're looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

BOC is a member of The Linde Group, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with more than 80,000 employees working in around 100 countries worldwide. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that help our customers become more productive, energy efficient and sustainable. Join our team and be a part of our success story.

Our people have the opportunity to thrive and excel. We provide a wide range of training programmes to enhance career development, with a potential for overseas opportunities. We also have a variety of employee appreciation programmes to recognize solo and collaborative team efforts.

At BOC we understand and respect a work/life balance, and that's why we have introduced initiatives such as generous parental leave, flexible working arrangements and attractive superannuation benefits. We also have a variety of employee appreciation programmes to recognize solo and collaborative team efforts.

BOC is proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for Women. If you would like to know more information about how we are supporting our employees, you can view our policies and benefits here: https://au.work180.co/employer/boc-au