Production Shift Manager

Linde Group; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Linde Group is seeking a Senior Production Leader in Australia’s City of Brisbane to lead and coach the production team for safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations. The role emphasizes process safety, performance management, and cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders.

Ideal candidates will have extensive process-plant experience, strong HSE credentials, and a track record of driving productivity while controlling costs.

Qualifications

• Experience in a process plant, manufacturing, reliability or similar operational environment.
• Five years’ leadership or technical experience.
• Strong HSE capability, ideally within Process Safety or Major Hazard Facility environment.
• Confident people leadership with the ability to coach teams and drive accountability.
• Ability to have difficult conversations, manage performance and drive productivity.
• Ability to make informed decisions and own them.
• Sound technical knowledge across plant operations, maintenance and control systems.
• Problem-solving and timely decision-making under changing priorities.
• Clear communication and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Relevant engineering qualifications in Chemical, Mechanical, Instrumentation or related discipline.
• Experience using business, maintenance and safety management systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the Production team capabilities and productivity with clear expectations and prompt performance handling.
• 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 escalate risks 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.

Skills

People leadership

Process safety

Performance coaching

Decision making

Problem solving

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Engineering degree (Chemical/Mechanical/Instrumentation)

Job description

• You will enjoy leading, coaching and developing theProduction team capabilities, and productivity. Setting clear expectations andproactively addressing performance
• Leadthe production team to deliver safe, reliable and efficient plantoperations
• ChampionProcess Safety and strengthen safety culture through visible, practicalleadership
• Coordinatedaily activities to achieve KPI targets, customer commitments and businessobjectives
• Builda high performance culture through clear accountabilities, regularfeedback and consistent follow through
• Monitorplant performance, respond to operational issues and escalateriskspromptly
• Supportmaintenance planning, shutdowns, restarts and equipment reliabilityactivities
• Identifyopportunities to improve reliability, cost control, inventory andoperational performance
• Manageresources, plant costs and critical materials in line with approvedbudgets and site priorities

What makes you great

• Experiencein a process plant, manufacturing, reliability or similar operationalenvironment
• Ideallyyou will have five years’ experience in a leadership or technical role
• StrongHSE capability, ideally within a Process Safety or Major Hazard Facilityenvironment
• Confidentpeople leadership skills, with the ability to coach teams and driveaccountability
• Havethe ability to have difficult conversations, manage performance and driveproductivity
• Youwill have the ability to make an informed decision and own it
• Soundtechnical knowledge across plant operations, maintenance and controlsystems
• Strongproblem-solving skills and the ability to make timely decisions underchanging priorities
• Clearcommunication style and a collaborative approach to working withstakeholders
• Relevantengineering qualifications in Chemical, Mechanical, Instrumentation or arelated discipline
• Experienceusing business, maintenance and safety management systems

Why you will love working with us

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.

What we offer you!

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.

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 are also firmly enthusiastic and involved when it comes to the community as well as our partner charities with organisations such as Road Safety Education and Redkite.

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