What you’ll be doing:

- Taking overall responsibility for day-to-day factory performance
- Leading production supervisors, leading hands and the wider manufacturing workforce
- Delivering production schedules across multiple product streams
- Managing labour planning, capacity, productivity and shift requirements
- Driving Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives
- Establishing and maintaining standard work, visual management and 5S
- Strengthening quality assurance systems, hold points and first-pass quality
- Monitoring rework, defects, labour hours, material waste and overtime
- Developing supervisors and building capability across the production team
- Managing performance and accountability across a diverse workforce
- Taking ownership of factory WHS, incident management and hazard reporting
- Reporting weekly production, quality, safety, labour and cost KPIs
- Identifying production constraints and implementing measurable improvement plans
- Helping design the process, layout, labour model and workflow for future manufacturing operations

What you’ll need:

- Minimum 7 years’ experience within a manufacturing environment
- At least 3 years running a factory or production operation
- Strong experience within timber framing, light-steel framing, modular or offsite construction
- Demonstrated experience leading a workforce of 20+ employees




- Proven experience implementing Lean manufacturing or process improvement
- Evidence of delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality or cost
- Strong understanding of quality assurance systems and process-based quality control
- Experience developing supervisors and building high-performing production teams
- Strong understanding of production flow, capacity planning and manufacturing KPIs
- Ability to lead a multicultural workforce with a clear, fair and consistent management style
- Full and unrestricted Australian working rights

Highly regarded:

- Modular, volumetric or panelised construction experience
- Experience designing, commissioning or relocating a manufacturing facility
- Lean or Six Sigma qualifications
- ERP, MRP or production scheduling system experience
- Trade or building industry qualifications
- Experience helping a growing manufacturing business move towards more structured, systems-led operations

What’s in it for you:

- Market-competitive salary package
- Senior leadership opportunity with genuine career progression
- Work directly with the CEO and influence business growth
- Opportunity to shape and improve a modern manufacturing operation
- Potential pathway into a Group Operations Manager role
- Be part of a growing and forward-thinking business

📌 Manufacturing Manager (Western Australia)
🏢 Wood Recruitment
📍 Western Australia