Production Manager

About the role:

In this vital position, your role will be to manage the production and warehouse teams and their performance, to meet production targets and to ensure a safe working environment in our Cheltenham plant. Additionally, you will also be responsibility for driving and executing our Total Productive Management (TPM) programme through implementing progressive change, through being a hands-on team member capable of guiding people and teams through continuous improvement. Gain recognition as you apply your experience in leadership and TPM, combined with on-the-job process expertise and stakeholder input to identify, prioritise, and manage multiple improvement projects.

This is the perfect site-based role if you are self-motivated, with a bias for action, a sense of urgency, and tendency to quickly take personal responsibility to drive improvement and culture shifts in manufacturing excellence.

What’s in it for you:

Opportunity for a long-term career path that allows for exposure into all areas of the Ecolab’s supply chain

Access to best-in-class resources, tools, training, and technology

Thrive in a company that values sustainability, drives a safety-focused culture and has been recognised as one of the most ethical companies in the world

What you will do:

Plan, organise and manage production to ensure that goods are produced safely, efficiently, on time, within budget and to standard.

Deliver on key metrics for production performance including labour utilisation, material usage, safety, and quality

Lead the site TPM programme to drive a cultural shift in continuous improvement including being a hands-on team member through the change process.

Ensure operational strategies are fully developed, agreed, implemented, and achieving desired performance measures.

Drive the TPM program to support the Plant Manager in the development of High-Performance Work Teams.

Promote the developing Ecolab Production System culture though training aligned with the TPM Academy training agenda and supporting manufacturing skills models to develop a Loss Analysis culture

Attend and participate in regional TPM meetings

To be successful, you will ideally have:

Several years’ experience in chemical/batch manufacturing, supply chain environment

Experience in coaching and influencing cross-functional teams, including team building, understanding motivation and negotiation techniques, and proving work direction to others

Proven experience in TPM Principals and methods (5S, Lean, Autonomous Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, Visual Management, and Kaizen etc) or other lean methodologies

SAP experience would be an advantage

Preferred qualifications and background:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Logistics, Science or Business would be ideal

Proven experience encouraging process improvement projects or program management

Experience working with the implementation and oversight of Operational Excellence initiatives in a manufacturing environment

About ECOLAB:

Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene, technologies and services. Every day, we help make the world cleaner, safer and healthier – protecting people and vital resources. A trusted partner at nearly three million customer locations. Around the world, customers in foodservice, food processing, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets choose Ecolab products and services to keep their environment clean and safe, operate efficiently and achieve sustainability goals.

Life at ECOLAB:

Our three behavioural shifts are People First, One United ANZ Ecolab Team and Owning the Outcome.

We believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, there is a world of opportunity that can be found within our growing company, and delivering results and demonstrating teamwork, drives advancement.

Some of the benefits you could enjoy:

• Health and Well-being Subsidy of $250 per year

• Purchased additional annual leave option and MY Days bonus leave program

• Rewarding bonus and incentive programs

• Attractive staff product discounts

• Access to the Ecolab holiday house in Lake Taupo NZ

• Employee stock purchase plan

How to apply:

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The preferred applicant will be subject to employment screening by Ecolab or by their external third-party provider.

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