Utilities & Services Manager

Danone; Balclutha; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Danone's Balclutha site seeks an experienced Services & Utilities Manager to lead the Utilities & Services function, ensuring safe, reliable and efficient operation of critical infrastructure that underpins manufacturing.

You will coach a dedicated team, drive continuous improvement, sustainability and safety, and collaborate across Operations, Engineering, Quality and Maintenance to deliver site-wide performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Utilities & Services function to power one of New Zealand's advanced nutrition manufacturing facilities.
• Foster a high-performing, safety-focused culture within the Utilities team.
• Ensure reliable and efficient operation of critical utility infrastructure supporting manufacturing operations.
• Drive utility performance through planning, monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead initiatives to improve reliability, efficiency, sustainability and operational effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to reduce waste, improve asset performance and optimise resources.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support manufacturing performance and site objectives.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, environmental and health & safety requirements.
• Support capital projects, maintenance activities and operational improvement programmes.
• Champion Danone's WISE Health & Safety culture and commitment to best practice operational excellence.
• Develop team capability through coaching, succession planning and performance development.

Job description

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Join us at Danone,where your work touches lives and contributes to a healthier world. As a global leader with a unique health-focused portfolio in food and beverages, we are driven by a mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible. Embedded in our culture is a profound sense of purpose and a commitment to innovation, sustainability, and community. At Danone, we believe in the power of our people,and we are dedicated to creating an environment where our core values of humanism, openness, enthusiasm, and proximitylead the way to achieving our goals.

Danone operates usingIntegrated Work Systems (IWS), a globally recognised methodology focused on building capability, empowering teams and driving continuous improvement.

As theServices & Utilities Manager, you will lead the site'sServices Line Trio, working collaboratively across Operations, Maintenance and Technical functions to optimise performance, strengthen team capability and deliver sustainable operational results. Internally, this position is known asLine Lead - Services.

Lead the operation that powers one of New Zealand's most advanced nutrition manufacturing facilities.

We are seeking an experiencedUtilities & Services Managerto join our team at Danone's world-class manufacturing facility in Balclutha.

This is a critical leadership role responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable and efficient operation of the site's utilities and services function. You will lead a dedicated team while driving operational performance, continuous improvement, safety, sustainability and reliability across the utility infrastructure that underpins our manufacturing operation.

Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality and Maintenance teams, you will play a key role in delivering site performance and helping achieve Danone's ambitious operational and sustainability objectives.

This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership, people development and strategic improvement initiatives within a highly collaborative manufacturing environment.

• Lead a critical function that enables the success of an entire manufacturing site


• Drive meaningful improvements in operational performance, efficiency and sustainability


• Develop and mentor a highly skilled team


• Influence site-wide operational and continuous improvement initiatives


• Join a globally recognised organisation with strong local and international career opportunities


• Work within a business committed to innovation, operational excellence and people development

As our Services & Utilities Manager, you will:

• Lead, coach and develop the Utilities team to foster a high-performing and safety-focused culture


• Ensure the reliable and efficient operation of critical utility infrastructure supporting manufacturing operations


• Drive utility performance through effective planning, monitoring and continuous improvement


• Lead initiatives that improve reliability, efficiency, sustainability and operational effectiveness


• Identify and implement opportunities to reduce waste, improve asset performance and optimise resources


• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support manufacturing performance and site objectives


• Ensure compliance with food safety, environmental and health & safety requirements


• Support capital projects, maintenance activities and operational improvement programmes


• Champion Danone's WISE Health & Safety culture and commitment to best practice operational excellence


• Develop team capability through coaching, succession planning and performance development