Company

This growing and fast paced business that has a broad customer portfolio and multiple product category’s that it has recognised brands in. Focused on efficiencies and growth this plan is going to be realised through significant capital investment within their manufacturing facilities. Reporting into the Operations Director this is a critical role responsible for the way capital is raised and managed long term as well as executing these plans.
 
The role

Reporting to the Operations Director you will be responsible for:

• Managing major multi million dollar, multi discipline capital projects from a timeline, budget & specification.
• Developing Project Management methodologies and reporting to the Executive Management group on major projects and providing intelligent insight and advice on the capital strategy.
• Working with a range of internal stakeholders to develop the capital engineering program.
• Developing the Capital strategy and long term asset risks and requirements for the business.
• Managing, coaching and developing a team of Project Engineers.
• Overseeing all capital spend and managing the delivery milestones, with regular reporting back to the executive group.
• You will also be responsible for driving long term sustainable efficiencies and be responsible for managing a variety of external consultancies and contractors while also taking a lead on a major capital projects. 

Background required

In order to be successful in this role you will have:

• Degree qualification in Engineering
• Proven experience delivering major multi discipline projects within the FMCG industry.
• Excellent communication, leadership and negotiation skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• An ability to effectively communicate at different levels and also provide intelligent commercial insights around capital.
• The ability to deliver projects across Australia with the flexibility to be able to be at the various manufacturing plants when required.

What’s on offer?

This gives you the opportunity to lead a large capital investment program at a leading food manufacturing business. With their continued growth plans their will be numerous future career opportunities to further progress within the Executive Leadership team.
 
If you would like to discuss this opportunity further you can contact Ricky Phare at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7403.