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.

Job Description

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:

- Leada safety‑first culture and ensuring compliance with all health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
- Deliver solid operational performance across safety, quality, service, productivity, and cost targets.
- DriveDIFOT performance through effective production planning, inventory management, and S&OP; execution.
- Improveplant reliability, efficiency, and uptime through TPM, preventative maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Managesite 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 develophigh‑performing teams while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Leadoperational 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, packagingor 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.

Qualifications

- 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.

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📌 Plant Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Pact Packaging
📍 Melbourne