Production Supervisor

Join the team at CHEP's Penrose Service Centre, where we receive, service and dispatch pallets, crates and bins, providing our customers with reliable supply chain solutions. The purpose of this role is to lead the safe production of our site, providing the team with direction and support to ensure productivity targets are met across the Night Shift pm – 6.30 am) Sunday night to Friday morning.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to take on a new challenge in a role where no two days are ever the same. Fantastic opportunity to grow and get involved with national projects and machine automation innovation.

The key responsibilities of this role include:

• Provide hands-on leadership to afternoon shift staff by mentoring, coaching, and guiding employees, addressing employee relations issues, and fostering a positive and productive work environment.
• Lead and enhance safety performance on shift, promoting a proactive safety culture through training, accident prevention, and rehabilitation programs, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
• Manage shift maintenance activities, resolving equipment breakdowns in coordination with the maintenance team to maintain uninterrupted plant operations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives on shift, implementing best practices to enhance efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness across end to end operations.
• Monitor and manage the plant's operational costs and yield, working closely with the Service Centre Manager to optimize performance and contribute to the overall plant objectives.
• Address performance and attendance matters in collaboration with HR, ensuring that all plant staff meet operational expectations.
• Ensure full compliance with CHEP procedures and work instructions, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and in line with company standards and operational goals.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills, experience and qualifications:

• Demonstrated supervisory experience (4 – 5 years) in an automated and fast paced industrial production or operations environment, where you have led multiple teams of 20 or more employees per shift
• Confidence and capability to lead the site sole charge for the night shift, prioritising safety amongst production targets and effectively mitigating risk
• The leadership capability to drive and motivate a diverse multi-cultural workforce
• Solid experience in performance management and conflict resolution
• A commitment to safety, continuous improvement, innovation and change
• Strong experience with production and maintenance planning, embracing the use of technology
• Excellent communication and team building skills

Interested? To apply please click the 'Apply Now' button below.  Please include a covering letter with your resume outlining how your skills, qualifications and experience address the above criteria. Applications may be reviewed as they are received, so don't delay, applications close on 23 November 2025.

In order for your application to be considered, you will require full working rights in New Zealand. We are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.

About CHEP, A Brambles Company

CHEP is a global leader in supply chain solutions. Together with producers, manufacturers, retailers, and logistics partners, CHEP advances the smart and sustainable movement of goods across more than 60 countries.

Powered by its share, repair and reuse network of connected pallets, crates, and containers, CHEP helps businesses optimise their supply chains to reduce costs and minimise the environmental impact of their operations.

CHEP pairs its leadership in circularity, which helps tackle emissions, waste, and single-use packaging, with a focus on resilience, to build future-ready supply networks through data, scale and collaboration.

With its operational excellence trusted by the world's top brands, CHEP primarily serves customers in the consumer staples (e.g. dry food, grocery, household products, health and personal care, fresh produce and beverage), retail, automotive and general manufacturing industries.

A part of the Brambles Group, CHEP manages ~347 million pallets and containers through a network of 750+ service centres, employing approximately 11,000 people worldwide with its largest operations in North America and Europe.

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Here in New Zealand, CHEP touches every stage of the Food Supply Chain; domestically from the farm to supermarket shelf and internationally our global capabilities support the delivery of New Zealand produce around the world.

CHEP New Zealand is an accredited Top Employer and offers a range of employee benefits including a competitive salary, fully maintained vehicle, bonus opportunities, a supportive learning and development culture and a wide range of opportunities to assist you in achieving your career aspirations. CHEP New Zealand, as part of Brambles, provides you unparalleled opportunities to advance and accelerate your career and is large enough to take you anywhere and small enough to make sure you get there. With a focus on career pyramids instead of ladders, we move our people up and across functions and companies to deepen their transferable skills and acquire broader business experience.

Benefits:

• Paid volunteer leave for those who wish to volunteer their services to a community organisation – 3 days per annum
• Reward and Recognition Program to celebrate outstanding achievements of our people through a number of different delivery methods
• Employee discounts with a range of partners
• Unparalleled opportunities to advance and accelerate your career
• Attractive options to purchase Brambles shares

Our team boasts a friendly and fun culture that celebrates successes, with award winning engagement and enablement, and results achieved through collective intelligence, collaboration and teamwork.

With a highly inclusive workplace rich in diversity, CHEP New Zealand celebrates the diversity of thought, backgrounds, style and working arrangements of our people to ensure that we reflect the communities and customers that we serve.

Join our team to be part of an international growth company with an advantaged and highly sustainable business model. You'll be working for a company that is changing the way goods get to market. You'll optimize 300,000 supply chains instead of just one. You'll join an efficient and collaborative team who punches above its weight. You'll be working for the good of humanity.