Operations Director

About the role

As Operations Director, you will play a key leadership role in building and scaling manufacturing and operational capability to meet rapidly increasing demand. This is a hands-on leadership role with genuine scope to make a difference. You'll work closely with senior leadership and have the opportunity to lead improvement, introduce new ways of working, develop people and help build a world-class operation supporting some of Australia's most critical infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Hold full accountability for the P&L statement tied to the company's primary revenue line of manufactured product
• Continuously monitor and minimize waste to ensure all manufacturing processes are running at peak efficiency
• Collaborate closely with senior leaders to support broader business goals
• Oversee a 24 hour manufacturing operation encompassing three shifts, maintenance engineers, production engineers, continuous improvement leaders, and the electrical assembly team
• Manage the Supply Chain Manager and warehousing team, handling external supplier relationships, strategic supply chain planning, purchasing, and material issuing
• Lead the engineering team responsible for ongoing maintenance of existing products and custom engineering solutions for incoming orders
• Guide the sales order management team to ensure precise ERP data entry, accurate processing, and tight scheduling alignment with manufacturing capacity, purchasing, and engineering
• Oversee the Safety and Compliance Officer, ensuring ISO frameworks and health and safety policies are established and maintained across the entire organisation