The Role

Reporting to the General Manager Operations, Pact Packaging New Zealand (PPNZ) and part of a collaborative Operational team. This position is to provide strong leadership to the Wellington site, develop and drive a consistent culture of operational excellence across the business, focused on optimizing safety, customer service and manufacturing performance.

About this opportunity

This is a great step up in your career to build on the strong operational aspects of the site to continue to deliver all agreed targets for the business, including

• Overall responsibility of the Business Unit performance
• Health & Safety performance
• Effective leadership and staff performance
• Operational excellence and continuous improvement, including quality, plant reliability, productivity sales, cost and waste
• Optimisation of profitability
• Maintaining and building strong customer relationships
• Creating a business that our people are engaged and proud of
• Promoting training and development through front line leadership development and succession planning

About you:

Your personality and experience are able to proactively manage multiple activities and adapting to changing scenarios throughout your day.  You love finding solutions and getting the work done through a great team of people leaders. You’re a leader that others want to follow.  You create context and meaning for people by building frameworks and sharing experience.

To be successful in the role, you will need:

• Minimum 5 years management experience in a manufacturing or Logistics environment
• Leadership skills
• Strong experience across operations, commercial and sales.
• Professional & commercial knowledge and acumen
• Able to work under pressure and show empathy when necessary
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills
• Demonstrates good judgment and efficient decision-making skills
• Customer service focus
• Flexible and adaptable
• Project management and multi-tasking skills

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.

Apply today

If this role resonates with you and you are ready to further develop your career with Pact, please apply now.