About this opportunity

We specialise in the manufacture and supply of rigid plastic and metal packaging servicing for the consumer and industrial sectors. Working onsite at our Tullamarine location as Production Scheduler, you are accountable for working cross-functionally with our manufacturing, distribution, supply planning and customer service teams to coordinate the timely release of production schedules, each with their unique complexities and constraints, and to ensure our products are produced on time, every time.

Through a proactive and critical thinking mindset, the Production Scheduler is accountable for planning production with the production and maintenance teams to ensure orders are delivered in-full and on-time, working closely with other departments ensure production plans and fulfilling customer requirements. Also co-ordinating resources and liaising with internal and external key contacts to ensure work is delivered on time, to our quality specifications and requirement is a requirement, in addition to planning and reviewing resin requirements and materials ordering and planning.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

•  Conduct analysis to identify performance to target gaps, in collaboration with the Sales and Supply teams and identify solutions to mitigate risks.
• Escalate any foreseeable issues / changes.
• Book in stock and stock management, managing customer expectations, creating new items in SAP, as well as using SAP and the internal operating system daily.
• Create consistently predictable schedules for the plant, built within the scope of the agreed planning guidelines, based on the requirements of the Supply Planner, and optimising plant efficiencies. 
• Revise and reschedule orders, when necessary, as per manufacturing lead times.
• Work closely with the Supply Planner to ensure production planning information is up to date and MPS reflects current data. Highlight any potential supply risks.
• Work to close tolerances and within time constraints in an efficient and organised manner within a fast paced and often high-pressure environment.
• Maintain the factory’s information system daily to provide information used in daily management reporting.
• Complete End of Month reconciliations reporting in a timely manner.
• Manage the daily and weekly reporting for schedule adherence and stock outs.
• Participant in making decisions/giving recommendations for Daily Production meetings, steering plant schedules to alignment. 
• Provide recommendations and risk awareness to support plant operations. 
• Perform frequent retiming of the current week's schedule to align with plant status and escalation of risks.
• Creating & maintain SOP’s for all role functions including scheduling data maintenance in the Master Production Schedule with the National Supply Planner 
• Check BOMs and information integrity contained in workflows for accuracy and sensibility. Coach, knowledge transfer and develop other team members and create and update SOP’s for all key processes.
• Perform weekly balance of stock on hand in SAP against requirements for production to ensure continuous supply.
• Manage to finish material inventory levels, order finishing material stock (pallets, etc.), and liaise with suppliers & sites regarding timely supply and inventory levels.
• Manage specific consumable items and co-ordinate the monthly stock take
• Work to and achieving all KPIs through a continuous improvement culture
• Act as a safety leader and ensuring yourself and others perform their work safely

Your skills and experience

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

• 3 Production planning/scheduling  experience in a similar role, ideally within the FMCG, manufacturing or distribution industries
• Advanced technical understanding of planning and ordering to a manufacturing production schedule
• Well-developed analytical skills and problem-solving abilities
• High level of organisational skills and attention to detail 
• Ability to understand, anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in ERP systems (preferable SAP) and strong computer and excel skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence adoption of a significant recommendation involving business process changes and/or new system applications. 
• Ability to prioritise, multitask and work cross functionally
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations

Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product lifecycle approach to sustainable packaging solutions.  

Partnering with global brands to local producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture. 

Job Description

As the Manufacturing Manager at our Blacktown Dairy and Beverage site with a highly engaged team of around 30 across 3 shifts, you will own and drive value through the significant levers of safety, people, quality, efficiency, and cost.  

 With your leadership capability to “get things done” safely and effectively, you will uplift capability across the site to ensure and embed a culture of continuous improvement whilst maintaining the highest safety standards.

With a proven ability to inspire, develop and transform a strong tenured team, you will drive operational improvements across the site acting as the catalyst for change.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Demonstrate genuine safety-first leadership, leading by example and ensuring that all Company policies, procedures, and processes are adhered to, understood, and practiced
• Develop front line capabilities, continuous improvement and foster Lean manufacturing practises to achieve high performance
• Setting the overall strategy and standards for best to improve efficiency minimise production downtime
• Manage daily and weekly production schedule for achieving optimum production efficiencies and DIFOT
• Work closely with Quality/Supply Chain and Engineering to optimise production performance and ensuring operational excellence in all areas of production
• Provide leadership, coaching, support, and performance management
• Ensure all ISO, HACCP and GMP standards and practices are achieved.

Your skills and experience

• Visible belief and demonstrated leadership in driving a Zero Harm culture
•  knowledge of Lean manufacturing techniques
• Working background in manufacturing environment, which embraces operational excellence
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong & effective communication skills to lead and inspire the operations team.
• Proven background in continuous Improvement and change management experience
• Outstanding aptitude to communicate with a wide range of people coupled with coaching & development skills.
• Be outcomes focused with the ability to balance production, safety, and resources