Textile Operations Manager (Melbourne, Australia).

The Company - Plant Protector Group (PPG) is an exciting textile manufacturing scale-up with world-leading insulated packaging solutions made from 100% natural waste wool material. We are passionately committed to creating sustainable, recyclable, biodegradable, compostable packaging solutions for today’s fast-moving world. We are looking for a dynamic Manufacturing Specialist to lead a world-best-practice greenfield manufacturing site in Australia!

The Role (summary) - You will report directly to the CEO and COO. You will have a Production Manager reporting directly to you. You will maintain direct control across all facets of Operations (People / Safety / Quality / Product / Processes / New Product Development). You will have direct operational control of a newly commissioned Melbourne (Australia) manufacturing facility inclusive of shopfloor staff, plant/equipment up-time, quality management, continuous improvement, safety compliance, daily performance reporting, supplier engagement and sourcing, and turning new products into reality on the shopfloor (via material-selection, prototyping, line-testing, and full-scale production).

Your role will look as follows-

Maintain operational safety, product quality, with the right cost accuracy:

Ensure all working areas and assets comply and operate and are maintained in working order, in accordance with Best-Practice Manufacturing (BPM) principles.
Ensure Safety and Quality conditions (and culture) for a safe / compliant working environment.
Ensure finished products are consistently manufactured according to standards of quality, on time, optimal cost and customer expectation. This will involve the use of in-process BPM tools to understand failure / loss causality.
As a new green-field site, rapidly build shopfloor process-maturity (ie. Line SOPs, Line changeovers, Start-up/Shut-down, Operator/Machine maintenance systems) across end-to-end operational workflow.
Ensure implementation of software tools designed to assist shopfloor process optimisation (ie. BOM / Cost-to-Make systems, inventory systems, maintenance systems).
Develop new processes / procedures / practices as part of continuous improvement initiatives. This means the Operations Team will be hands-on, on-the-shopfloor (for 6-12months) to learn & realise the operational capabilities of new plant.

People:

Foster a healthy management / employee culture.
Develop competency of operations team, supporting them to apply methodologies to improve and sustain results, and achieve process mastership.
Build capability of the operations team and manage individual development plans.
Coach operations / production staff effectively through performance reviews. Use SOPs and Training/Coaching (one on one / one to many) to ensure sustainable and repeatable results.
Monitor compliance to manufacturing SOPs, including safety and housekeeping.
Roll out HR tools - Skill/Training matrix, Shopfloor position descriptions, Shopfloor inductions, Shopfloor timesheets, SOP templates, Toolbox meetings.

Manage and improve manufacturing cost (to drive profitability):

Implement software tools to establish cost-to-make BOMs and manage inventory movement.
Lead and sponsor cost improvement projects to improve Plant P&L.
Manage and improve the operational budget.
Ensure the right cascading of priorities and measures from Management to Factory.
Understand factory loss analysis. Develop & implement Lean/Cost improvement action plans.
Oversight of data-entry practices across software platforms (and manual data-entry processes) to help maintain good decision quality.
Deployment of SPC (control) charts onto shopfloor, at all in-process checkpoints along end-to-end production line, to test conformance to required specification tolerances.
Managing production schedules to meet sales contract requirements along with inventory, WIP and SKU optimisation.

Turn new product development goals into reality on the shopfloor:

Provide technical / manufacturing support to in-house design team (during discovery meetings).
Realise new-to-market textile solutions using advanced fibre-manufacturing capabilities.
Control new product cycle on shopfloor (via material selection, BOM development, prototyping, product/line testing to specification, and full-scale production).
Ensure timely and reliable launch of new products into the market as per agreement with internal stakeholders (and external contract manufacturing customers).

Target attainment:

Measure weekly targets –Safety, Operations, People, Quality, Product, In-Process controls.
Machine (capacity) utilisation - Machine up-time & changeovers, Machine efficiency, Line/Cost optimisation, Product manufacturing tolerances, Day-to-Day troubleshooting.
Create operational KPI metrics (for presentation to organisational stakeholders) – Zero Harm, SPC output charts, Efficiency charts, Machine (OEE) uptime, Product quality (vs. specification), Internal safety audit findings, Internal risk/hazard register, In-line product testing (to specification), Quality NCR reporting, Production budget/EBIT planning (with stakeholders), Production budget vs. actual (monthly/quarterly/yearly), Bill-of-material cost (% to revenue), Delivery In-Full / On-Time / In-Spec (DIFOTIS).

As the successful candidate you will possess the following capabilities -

Dynamic and emotionally intelligent individual, who can read the room.
Tertiary educated (however this is not mandatory).
Demonstrable operational improvement experience in textile manufacturing sector.
Experience in Carding/Airlay and Needleloom technology is advantageous.
Strong analytical abilities.
Team player who wants to work in a friendly inclusive vibrant culture.
Lateral thinker. Problem solver. Good listener.
Able to communicate effectively in a team environment.
Able to work to deadlines.
Motivated and driven individual.
Meticulous attention-to-detail.

The Reward / Remuneration

In return for your skills and experience you will receive a competitive full-time salary + superannuation. You will be part of a rapid growth business and have the chance to work within a great supportive team environment.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $74,275.19 – $159,223.96 per year

Application Question(s):

How much notice do you need to give your current employer?
What is your annual salary expectation?

Experience:

Operations management: 2 years (Preferred)
textile manufacturing: 2 years (Preferred)
Product development: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Authorisation:

Australia (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 12/07/2024
Expected Start Date: 01/07/2024

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