Job Description

Site Manager – Not a Trace Bakery (Summit Group)

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The Site Manager is responsible for the secure, compliant and profitable operation of our Not a Trace manufacturing site in Mordialloc.

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Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will be accountable for the site P&L; and lead the operation as a business leader - balancing food safety and allergen integrity, safety, service, cost, capacity and people to deliver sustainable performance and contribute to the Group's broader growth objectives.

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In the near term, your focus will be on stabilising the operation by establishing a strong leadership presence, embedding a disciplined operating rhythm and building the capability, systems and culture required for sustainable growth.

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Key responsibilities

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Guarantee the integrity of the Not a Trace Bakery gluten-free and nut-free commitment through validated segregation, controlled material and personnel flow, changeover and cleaning validation, and a documented verification and testing regimen.

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Accountable for the production site P&L;, revenue delivery through supply performance, conversion cost and site overhead and deliver the site's budgeted EBITDA and margin-improvement plan.

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Lead end-to-end site operations across manufacturing, engineering and maintenance, partnering closely with Quality to ensure the safe, efficient and consistent production of high-quality products.

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Oversight of WHS performance and visibly lead safety across the ensuring critical risk controls are effectively managed including ovens and thermal risk, dust, moving plant, manual handling and contractors.

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Maintain certification and audit readiness at all times - HACCP, the applicable GFSI scheme, FSANZ, and gluten-free and allergen-free certification and customer standards.

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Build and lead the site leadership team and frontline supervision and own workforce planning, rostering,



industrial relations and capability.

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Deliver customer service performance (DIFOT, case fill and order accuracy) to retail, foodservice, wholesale and free-from channel customers, and participate fully in the Group planning cycle.

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Develop the site capacity and capital plan and lead the operational side of new product commercialisation from trial through to full production.

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About you

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Proven success as a Site Manager with full accountability for a manufacturing site, including P&L; .

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Strong leadership experience across a multi-shift workforce, with a track record of building capable teams, developing leaders, driving accountability and creating a positive, high-performance culture, ideally within an enterprise agreement or award environment.

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Substantial food manufacturing experience in bakery, snack, biscuit or similar high-volume ambient food highly regarded.

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Direct experience managing allergen segregation and free-from or claim-based production, and accountability for the systems that make such a claim defensible.

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Credible command of HACCP, GFSI-standard certification and customer audit regimes, with a record of clean audit outcomes.

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A track record of identifying, quantifying and banking operational cost and margin improvement that lands in the P&L.;

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A personal history of materially improving safety performance and culture, not merely maintaining a system.

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Experience scaling capacity, commercialising current products and delivering capital projects to business case.

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About us

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Why join Not a Not a Trace Bakery?

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Lead as a genuine business leader, with the mandate to shape direction from day one.

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Be part of a growing, Australian-owned food business.

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Modern, allergen-controlled site proudly nut-free and gluten-free.

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A supportive Group, with peer site leaders and functional expertise to draw on.

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Competitive executive salary and growth opportunities across the Summit Group.

📌 Site Manager - Not a Trace Bakery (Summit Group) (Victoria)
🏢 Not a Trace
📍 Victoria