Team Leader

**Job Description**:
Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

**About this opportunity**

This position coordinates the operational aspects of the production area of responsibility to deliver all agreed targets for the business including EHSR compliance and behavioural excellence, continuous improvement of all aspects of operational excellence including quality, plant reliability, housekeeping, productivity, and waste.

This is a critical role focused on:

- Building a culture where safe behaviour and adherence to site/business policies is part of the everyday
- Working collaboratively with the Site Coordinator to implement best practice operational processes across the Site.
- Creating a work environment that our people are proud of and that rates as our customers’ best supplier
- Enhancing the levels of internal and external customer satisfaction
- Continuously improving overall operational performance levels measured by safe behaviour, quality, plant reliability, machine performance, delivery reliability, responsiveness, and cost control/reduction

Promoting training and development through front line leadership development and succession planning

**Your key responsibilities will be to**:

- Superior housekeeping disciplines including GMP audits.
- Regular training with staff in relation to health and safety initiatives.
- Participation in safety audits and the timely identification and correction of hazards.
- HACCP adherence.
- Active participation in health and safety initiatives and forums.
- Monitor department performance against KPI/ LSW
- Adherence to and assistance with the development of quality standards through effective NCR investigations
- Supporting the machine operators in effective problem solving
- Ensure that machinery production time is maximised through effective communication and collaboration with teams across the business
- Proactively review work systems / standards / practices to identify “best practice” and encourage a culture of solution identification
- Problem identification and analysis, non-conformance reporting and investigation
- Develop a high performing team
- Actively drive performance through coaching and support
- Champion overall performance improvement
- Work with staff to ensure basic disciplines are adhered to
- Manage the effective and efficient utilisation of resources ensuring the manufacturing standards are maintained.
- Manage direct and indirect wage costs through the minimisation of overtime balanced with the need to meet production demands

**Your skills and experience**

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

- Proven exceptional leadership skills - leading, developing and motivating frontline teams is essential
- Proven operational experience in a manufacturing environment coupled with a proven understanding of health and safety and operational excellence as well as continuous improvement techniques and performance
- Proven effective problem-solving skills

Preferred Attributes
- Good organisational and decision-making skills
- Able to drive and build a team
- Target driven with the desire to constantly review and improve performance
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Being proactive and flexible in approach to job tasks
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal with a demonstrable focus on customer service
- Strong leader, with a lead by example approach
- Having a methodical and analytical approach to problem solving
- The Team Leader is a key leadership position. The incumbent must be able to react effectively and make decisions in a variety of situations. The incumbent must be confident and capable in acting and be prepared to accept responsibility and accountability for their actions and decisions.

Additional Information
**About us**

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.