Production Team Leader

Earth Markets; Brisbane; Sur place; AUD 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Earth Markets at Rocklea Markets, Brisbane QLD, is seeking a hands-on Production Team Leader to oversee our fresh fruit and vegetable tray production. The role focuses on leading the production team, planning schedules, forecasting demand, and ensuring quality, efficiency and cost control in a fast-paced environment.

You will drive production planning, manage labour, purchase inputs, and implement process improvements while maintaining strict food safety standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in fresh produce or food manufacturing
• Experience leading production teams
• Strong planning and scheduling capability
• Experience with quality control and food safety
• Purchasing, inventory management
• Strong numerical and analytical ability
• Forecasting or demand-planning experience
• Hands-on leadership style

Responsabilités

• Lead, develop and manage the fresh produce production team
• Plan daily and weekly production schedules based on forecast demand and store requirements
• Interpret historical and current sales data to forecast future sales and production requirements
• Use dynamic pricing, sales trends, promotional activity, seasonality and other demand indicators to adjust production forecasts
• Translate sales forecasts into practical production, labour and purchasing requirements
• Ensure production targets are achieved efficiently and on time
• Manage labour allocation, workflow and team productivity
• Purchase and coordinate fruit, vegetables, packaging and other production requirements
• Maintain strong quality control across incoming produce and finished products
• Ensure products meet specifications for quality, presentation, weight and freshness
• Minimise waste, overproduction, stock-outs and unnecessary production costs
• Monitor production yields, labour efficiency, output and wasteIdentify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements
• Maintain appropriate food safety, hygiene, cleaning and workplace safety standards
• Coordinate with our warehouse, buying and store teams to ensure consistent supply
• Develop systems and processes that allow the production operation to scale as Earth Markets grows

Connaissances

Fresh produce experience

Team leadership

Production planning

Quality control

Purchasing/inventory

Data interpretation

Forecasting/demand planning

Labour management

Process improvement

Description du poste

Production Team Leader – Fresh Produce

Earth Markets | Rocklea Markets, Brisbane QLD

Full-Time | 5 Days per Week | Genuine opportunities to Progress

About Earth Markets

Earth Markets is a growing Queensland fresh food business with a strong focus on quality, freshness, value and exceptional customer experience.

As our business continues to grow, we are expanding our fresh produce production capability at our Rocklea Markets warehouse and are looking for an experienced Production Team Leader to lead this important part of our operation.

The Role

We are seeking a hands-on, commercially minded Production Team Leader to lead our production team responsible for preparing and packing our range of fresh fruit and vegetable trays, tubs and prepacked products for distribution across our stores and to our wholesale customer networks.

This is a leadership role with responsibility for the complete production operation — people, quality, forecasting, scheduling, purchasing, productivity and efficiency.

A key part of the role will be using sales, pricing and production data to forecast demand, ensuring we produce the right quantities at the right time while managing freshness, labour, waste and availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and manage the fresh produce production team
• Plan daily and weekly production schedules based on forecast demand and store requirements
• Interpret historical and current sales data to forecast future sales and production requirements
• Use dynamic pricing, sales trends, promotional activity, seasonality and other demand indicators to adjust production forecasts
• Translate sales forecasts into practical production, labour and purchasing requirements
• Ensure production targets are achieved efficiently and on time
• Manage labour allocation, workflow and team productivity
• Purchase and coordinate fruit, vegetables, packaging and other production requirements
• Maintain strong quality control across incoming produce and finished products
• Ensure products meet specifications for quality, presentation, weight and freshness
• Minimise waste, overproduction, stock-outs and unnecessary production costs
• Monitor production yields, labour efficiency, output and wasteIdentify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements
• Maintain appropriate food safety, hygiene, cleaning and workplace safety standards
• Coordinate with our warehouse, buying and store teams to ensure consistent supply
• Develop systems and processes that allow the production operation to scale as Earth Markets grows

What We're Looking For

You will ideally have:

• Previous experience in fresh produce, food manufacturing, food processing or a similar production environment
• Demonstrated experience leading production teams
• Strong production planning and scheduling capability
• Experience with quality control and food safety
• Purchasing, inventory or raw-material management experience
• Strong numerical and analytical capability, with the ability to interpret sales and operational data
• Experience using forecasting, dynamic pricing or demand-planning models to determine production requirements
• The ability to convert data into practical decisions around production volumes, purchasing and labour
• A strong understanding of labour management, productivity and production costs
• A demonstrated track record of improving efficiency and increasing productivity
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
• The ability to work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive fresh food environment
• A practical, hands-on leadership style and willingness to work alongside the team when required

Experience specifically within fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh-cut produce, prepacking, foodservice or supermarket production will be highly regarded.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this position means running a production operation that consistently delivers:

The right product. In the right quantity. At the right time. At the right cost.

You will use data and commercial judgement to anticipate demand rather than simply react to orders — balancing sales opportunity, availability, freshness, labour efficiency and waste.

We want someone who doesn't simply maintain a production schedule, but actively looks for opportunities to improve forecast accuracy, output, workflow, quality, yield and productivity.

Why Join Earth Markets?

Earth Markets is a progressive and growing fresh food business. This role provides the opportunity to take ownership of an important production function and help build the systems, team and capability required for our next stage of growth.

You’ll work in the heart of Brisbane’s fresh produce industry at Rocklea Markets and have the opportunity to make a measurable impact on the performance of the business.

Full-time - 5 days per week

Location - Rocklea Markets, Brisbane QLD

Salary - Full-time annual salary with genuine career progression opportunities