Lead People. Drive Performance. Shape Culture.

At CSR's Hebel Somersby facility, we're looking for a hands-on, people-focused Production Manager who thrives on building high-performing teams, driving accountability, and delivering operational results.

This is a leadership role where your ability to engage, coach, develop, and inspire people will be just as important as your manufacturing expertise. Leading a large workforce of production employees through a team of Supervisors and Team Leaders, you'll play a critical part in creating a safe, productive, and accountable culture while ensuring operational targets are achieved.

Whether you're an experienced Production Manager or a rising manufacturing leader ready for your next challenge, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact in a large-scale manufacturing operation.

About the Role

Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will lead production operations at the Hebel Somersby site, ensuring the safe, productive and cost-effective manufacture of quality products.

This role is suited to a resilient and hands-on leader who thrives on the factory floor, building high-performing teams, driving accountability, solving problems and delivering strong operational results through a culture of safety and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

You've run manufacturing operations, led people through change, and understand what high performance really looks like on the floor.

You will:

- Lead, coach and develop production leaders and their teams to build a high-performing and engaged workforce.
- Drive a strong safety culture where every employee goes home safely every day.
- Deliver site production, quality, cost and efficiency targets.




- Manage labour, raw materials, energy usage and manufacturing costs to achieve budget objectives.
- Improve operational performance by reducing downtime and optimising plant efficiency.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives and operational excellence programs.
- Lead root cause investigations and implement sustainable corrective actions.
- Ensure product quality standards are maintained and customer expectations are met.
- Support production planning and collaborate closely with Engineering, Quality, Customer Service and Supply Chain teams.
- Build capability through coaching, training, performance management and succession planning.

About you

To succeed in this role, you'll be a respected people leader who can balance operational performance with team engagement and development.

You'll bring:

- Experience leading teams within a manufacturing or production environment.
- Proven success managing large workforces through frontline leaders.
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, conflict resolution and employee engagement.
- Experience driving cultural change and increasing accountability within operational teams.
- A background in continuous process manufacturing.
- A track record of delivering production,



safety and operational KPI improvements.
- Solid Industrial Relations and employee relations experience.
- The resilience to navigate production challenges and lead through change.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across operational and support functions.
- Tertiary qualifications in Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations Management or a related discipline.

What we offer

We strive to support your professional and personal growth. Here are some of the perks you'll enjoy as part of the CSR team:

- Supportive and collaborative culture that fosters innovation and inclusion. You'll be surrounded by talented colleagues who are passionate about their work and committed to helping each other succeed.
- Care and wellbeing offer includes up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave, 52 weeks of superannuation payment, and access to an employee assistance program.
- Rewarding career with on-the-job learning, development, and upskilling opportunities within and across our brands

At CSR, we're building a better future together.

We are a team of 2,600 people across Australia and New Zealand, and we are all collaborating every single day towards a shared purpose - 'Building solutions for a better future'. As a leading Australian Manufacturing business, we're at the forefront of developing innovative, sustainable, and high performing building products and systems.

At CSR, we put people first. We are committed to creating a safe, respectful, supportive, and inclusive working environment that enables everyone to feel valued, grow and truly thrive. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for eve

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