Production Team Leader

Royal Australian Mint; Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Australian Mint in Canberra seeks a Production Team Leader to oversee a range of manual and automated production activities within the Operations Branch, leading a team operating complex machinery and ensuring safe, efficient and timely delivery of quality outputs.

You will coordinate workflow, monitor performance, and maintain compliance with safety and quality standards, while using computer systems to record data and support continuous improvement across production processes.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Experience supervising production or manufacturing operations.
• Knowledge of safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead, supervise and motivate production staff, allocating resources and coordinating work to achieve production targets.
• Supervise production operations, ensuring work is performed safely, efficiently and in accordance with approved procedures.
• Monitor production performance and quality, addressing and escalating issues to ensure targets, standards and work requirements are met.
• Coordinate with teams, managers and stakeholders to communicate production priorities, monitor performance and support the effective delivery of the production plan.
• Lead and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve production processes, efficiency, quality, safety and team performance.

Job description

The Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) is a small government agency working within the Commonwealth Government Portfolio of the Treasury. The Mint is a non-corporate Commonwealth Entity and is listed under the Public Governance Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA Act). The Mint is also covered by the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth) (PS Act).

The Mint makes coins and other minted products to serve the needs of the Australian economy, foreign countries, investors and collectors. We are stewards of a thriving national institution that showcases our Nations stories through the National Coin Collection, and a world class museum and gallery experience.

The Mint creates public value through a range of coining and minting-related activities. We play a key role in sharing the stories of Australia by recognising significant anniversaries, events, organisations and cultural perspectives through coins.

The Mint offers some of the most unique career opportunities within the public service, including roles such as:

• Coin making – polishing, laser frosting, 3D engraving, Physical Vapour Deposition hard coating, chrome plating, dies inspection and collars manufacture.
• Machinery – operate and maintain minting critical machines.
• Coin Sculpting – design coins, medals, medallions, and token, etc.
• Graphic Design – design coin packaging materials, exhibition graphics, etc.
• Engineering – technical support and manufacturing operations.

About the Branch

The Operations Branch is the manufacturing arm of the Mint. It is an operationally focused, multi-disciplinary team, responsible for the manufacture of both Australian and foreign circulating coin, collectable coins, and tooling to support those production requirements. The Branch covers coin manufacture, die preparation, blank preparation, electroplating, chemical processing, tooling and machining services, planning and packing.

The Branch has a strong focus on safety, continuous improvement, and quality. The Operations branch is currently embarking on a large program of uplift initiatives, providing a great opportunity for enthusiastic leaders to contribute to meaningful change and development.

About the Role

The Production Team Leader provides oversight across a range of manual and automated production activities within the Operations Branch, which may include minting, printing, packing or other associated manufacturing processes. The role leads a team of skilled production staff operating complex machinery and equipment, ensuring the safe, efficient and timely delivery of production requirements to the required quality standards.

The Production Team Leader has a strong understanding of production inputs, processes and outputs and is responsible for coordinating workflow, monitoring performance, and maintaining compliance, safety and quality control requirements throughout the production process. The role ensures products are delivered in full, on time and to the required quality standards, while supporting continuous improvement and effective resource utilisation.

The key duties of the position include:

• Lead, supervise and motivate production staff, allocating resources and coordinating work to achieve production targets.
• Supervise production operations, ensuring work is performed safely, efficiently and in accordance with approved procedures.
• Monitor production performance and quality, addressing and escalating issues to ensure targets, standards and work requirements are met.
• Coordinate with teams, managers and stakeholders to communicate production priorities, monitor performance and support the effective delivery of the production plan.
• Lead and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve production processes, efficiency, quality, safety and team performance.
• Use various computer systems and applications to record production data, monitor performance, prepare reports and complete administrative tasks.
• Assist and contribute to the review and development of workplace risk assessments and work instructions.
• Model and promote a safe, inclusive, respectful and high performing workplace culture that reflects obligations under the WHS Act, the APS values and DRIVE Leadership behaviours.