Position Title: Shift Manager - Ballarat Prepared Foods
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41297
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role
As a Shift Manager within our Prepared Foods team in Ballarat, you'll be responsible for the forward planning, leadership, and day‐to‐day management of processing and packing shifts. You'll guide a diverse team, drive performance across safety, quality, cost, delivery, people, and environment, and ensure smooth, compliant, and efficient operations. This role is critical in sustaining a strong production culture and enabling continuous improvement across the site.
About You What you'll be doing
* Championing a strong Health & Safety culture, leading incident investigations and ensuring compliance.
* Leading and developing your team through coaching, training, capability planning, and effective labour coordination.
* Overseeing shift operations to meet production, quality, and food safety standards, including HACCP, GMP, and internal audit requirements.
* Supporting continuous improvement initiatives, including MDI, Kaizen activities, and implementation of best‐practice processes.
* Managing operational performance by monitoring costs, efficiencies, waste reduction, and shift KPIs.
* Ensuring environmental responsibilities are met by reducing waste and supporting operator awareness and compliance.
What You'll Need To Be Successful
* Experience in food processing or manufacturing environments, ideally with exposure to safety, GMP, HACCP, quality, and environmental systems.
* Proven leadership capability with experience guiding teams through change and building an engaged, high‐performing workforce.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across departments and all levels of the business.
* Effective problem‐solving skills and the ability to think logically and make sound operational decisions.
* Results‐oriented mindset with the capacity to manage multiple priorities and deliver improvements in fast‐paced environments.
* Competency in Microsoft Office applications and comfort working with data and performance metrics.
* Background/experience in FS&Q would be highly regarded.
* Proven experience in leading and managing change.
About The Team
You'll be part of the Prepared Foods production team reporting to the Production Manager – Ballarat. The team works collaboratively across Quality, Safety, and Continuous Improvement to deliver strong shift performance. You'll lead a diverse group of operators and contribute to a learning‐focused culture built on coaching, capability development, and positive engagement. Your role is central to ensuring smooth day‐to‐day operations and maintaining compliance across safety, quality, and environmental standards.
About McCain
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Leadership principles
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family‐owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: ANZ
Department: Ballarat PF Pizza Plant
Location(s): AU - Australia : Victoria : Ballarat
Company: McCain Foods (Aust) Pty.
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