Pact Packaging is part of Pact Group, an Australian‑headquartered leader in packaging, recycling and reuse solutions. Pact Packaging designs and manufactures rigid plastic packaging for some of Australasia’s leading brands across food, beverage, health, personal care, and industrial sectors. Through advanced manufacturing, recycling capability and circular design, we're helping drive the transition to a more sustainable future.

We are looking for an experienced Plant Manager to lead our Moorabbin manufacturing site. Reporting to the General Manager Food, Health & Personal Care, you will be responsible for driving performance across safety, quality, service, cost, people, and operational excellence.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll inspire high-performing teams, build a strong site culture, and deliver continuous improvement initiatives that enhance productivity, reliability, and customer outcomes.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Lead a safety-first culture and ensuring compliance with all health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver strong operational performance across safety, quality, service, productivity, and cost targets.
• Drive DIFOT performance through effective production planning, inventory management, and S&OP execution.
• Improve plant reliability, efficiency, and uptime through TPM, preventative maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage site financial performance, including budgets, forecasting and cost centre accountability.
• Identifying and delivering sustainable cost reduction and capital investment opportunities to support long-term growth.
• Build, coach, and develop high-performing teams while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Lead operational and cultural transformation through data-driven decision-making, Lean methodologies, and cross-functional collaboration.

About you

You're an experienced manufacturing leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and knows how to bring out the best in people, processes, and performance.

To be successful in this role, you'll bring:

• Proven leadership experience in FMCG, plastic, packaging or other high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Expertise in Lean Manufacturing, TPM, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong commercial acumen, including budget and cost centre accountability.
• The ability to analyse data, solve problems and make informed business decisions.
• Experience leading Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.
• Demonstrated success delivering operational improvements, capital projects, and business transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A commitment to safety, quality and operational excellence.
• Degree or Diploma in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in a senior manufacturing leadership role.
• Proven success leading Lean, TPM or Operational Excellence programs.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and sustainable performance improvements.

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in a senior manufacturing leadership role.
• Proven success leading Lean, TPM or Operational Excellence programs.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and sustainable performance improvements.

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.