Shift Manager: Lead Safety, Lean Ops & Team Growth

1760 DuPont Memcor (Australia) Pty Ltd; Windsor; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

1760 DuPont Memcor (Australia) Pty Ltd in Windsor, NSW seeks a Shift Manager to lead safe, efficient production on a 24/7 basis. You’ll direct operators, technicians and contractors, ensuring delivery of plans while upholding quality and safety standards.

You will champion a strong safety culture, coordinate resources, and drive continuous improvement initiatives across maintenance, quality and engineering teams to enhance productivity and reliability at the South Windsor site.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in manufacturing, production, or industrial settings.
• Strong commitment to workplace safety and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting investigations and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to coach and develop others.
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma or Operational Excellence programs.
• Experience leading teams in a 24/7 shift environment.
• Exposure to maintenance coordination, reliability or shutdown activities.
• Understanding of Quality Management Systems.
• Experience in a highly regulated manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe, efficient, and compliant production on shift.
• Provide leadership and direction to operators, technicians, team leaders and contractors.
• Monitor manufacturing processes and respond to operational issues.
• Ensure products are manufactured to quality requirements, procedures and specifications.
• Support incident investigations, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Coordinate maintenance activities and support reliability initiatives.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
• Support onboarding, training and competency development.
• Maintain effective shift communications and handovers for continuity.

Skills

Leadership

Safety culture

Communication

Problem solving

Lean Manufacturing

Six Sigma

Shift work

Maintenance coordination

Quality systems

Regulatory compliance

Job description

1760 DuPont Memcor (Australia) Pty Ltd in Windsor, NSW seeks a Shift Manager to lead safe, efficient production on a 24/7 basis. You’ll direct operators, technicians and contractors, ensuring delivery of plans while upholding quality and safety standards.

You will champion a strong safety culture, coordinate resources, and drive continuous improvement initiatives across maintenance, quality and engineering teams to enhance productivity and reliability at the South Windsor site.