Site Manager (QB Dunedin)

Job Description

Goodman Fielder is a leading global food company committed to making everyday food better for everyone. We own a host of iconic brands that generations of people have grown up with and put in their supermarket trolleys every week including Vogels, Meadow Fresh, Molenberg, Puhoi Valley, Fortune and Edmonds to name a few. We also supply key ingredients to our customers in food services such as fats / oils, sugar, rice, and flour.

We are passionate about our iconic brands and products and strive to be the best place to work in New Zealand. We are looking for talented and passionate individuals to join our business and be part of our success.

About the opportunity :

Our Quality Bakers site in Dunedin is our second biggest site in NZ and expanding, manufacturing and supplying bread and small goods to all of our customers in the South Island, such as Freya's, Vogel's, Molenburg and Nature's Fresh.

As Site Manager, you will be responsible for the overall management of the site and the delivery of the balanced score-card site targets to Safety, Environment, Quality, Service, Cost and People.

To make this happen, your responsibilities will include :

• Provide strong leadership to the site in order to performance across all aspects of production, Health & Safety, and Quality.
• Support and develop business strategy and changes to improve overall business results including developing business cases for CAPEX requests
• Deliver on budgets, ensuring accurate costing and reporting, whilst driving operational costs, reducing labour costs, increasing reliability, and reducing waste and downtime
• Drive capability uplift across the site, enabling the managers to increase performance

About You

In order to make this role a success we are looking for a natural leader who has experience in taking a hands-on approach to driving results and performance in a manufacturing environment. Our site is expanding and undergoing a rebuild so it's essential the Site Manager can lead from the front.

Some of the skillsets and experiences we would like to see, include :